Britain’s smallest shoe shop proves a tight fit for customers – at just 3ft wide

Oliver Salter, 31, who owns Peter Scott shoe shop in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, Britains smallest shoe shop. August 20, 2024. Release date - August 23, 2024. Britain's smallest shoe shop has been squeezing in customers for the past 25 years despite being a tight fit - at just 3ft (0.9m) wide. Peter Scott Shoes is based in the village of Woodhall Spa, Lincs, is so tiny that you can touch both walls while standing in the same place on the shop floor. The 30ft (9.1m) long building used to be a booking office on the platform of the former railway station where trains ran from between 1855-1954. Following the lines closure, it became a number of stores including a funeral directors, bank, auctioneers and a jewellers until it opened as a shoe shop in 1999. The business is one of the smallest commercial stores in the entire country and could well be the narrowest in Britain. Current owner Oliver Salter, 31, has owned the store for the last three years after buying it in September 2021.

By Ed Chatterton via SWNS

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Britain’s smallest shoe shop proves a tight fit for customers – at just 3ft wide

Oliver Salter, 31, owns Peter Scott shoe shop in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, UK. (Tom Maddick via SWNS)

Britain’s smallest shoe shop proves a tight fit for customers – at just 3ft wide

It's been squeezing in customers for the past 25 years despite being a tight fit. (Tom Maddick via SWNS)

Britain’s smallest shoe shop proves a tight fit for customers – at just 3ft wide

It's one of the narrowest commercial shops in Britain. (Tom Maddick via SWNS)

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