Photo gallery: Just seven remain in Cobbler Square
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Cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
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Mr Lim Wen Shen, 75, is one of the few cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
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Mr Lim Wen Shen, 75, is one of the few cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street", outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
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Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro (right), 64, talks to a customer under the glow of a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on Nov 3, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
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Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro, 64, repairs shoes under a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on Nov 3, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
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Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro, 64, repairs shoes under a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on Nov 3, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
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Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro, 64, repairs shoes under a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on 3 Nov, 2012. The plastic bags hanging from the rack are shoes which have been repaired and are ready for collection. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
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Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro (right), 64, talks to customer and Yishun resident Siti Radziah, 34, under the glow of a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on Nov 3, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
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Cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
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Mr Lim Wen Shen (right), 75, is one of the few cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
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Mr Lim Wen Shen (right), 75, is one of the few cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
Cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
Mr Lim Wen Shen, 75, is one of the few cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
Mr Lim Wen Shen, 75, is one of the few cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street", outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro (right), 64, talks to a customer under the glow of a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on Nov 3, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro, 64, repairs shoes under a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on Nov 3, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro, 64, repairs shoes under a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on Nov 3, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro, 64, repairs shoes under a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on 3 Nov, 2012. The plastic bags hanging from the rack are shoes which have been repaired and are ready for collection. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
Cobbler Yamaguchi Taro (right), 64, talks to customer and Yishun resident Siti Radziah, 34, under the glow of a solar-powered light at his makeshift stall at Yishun Interchange on Nov 3, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
Cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
Mr Lim Wen Shen (right), 75, is one of the few cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
Mr Lim Wen Shen (right), 75, is one of the few cobblers working at their mini-makeshift stalls on "Cobbler Street" outside People's Park Complex. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
Fingers matted with glue and grime, seven elderly men sit hunched forward, replacing soles and mending the linings of worn-out shoes belonging to Singapore’s shuffling masses.
They work quietly amid the thronging crowds of the busy Eu Tong Sen Street, which has come to be known as Cobbler Square.
