What do you call these and where do you come from?

[MardyBra]

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[defineme]

Sand-shoes Newcastle Upon Tyne

Now live in Nottingham and they're plimsolls-I don't mind my kids calling them that that as long as they pronounce scone and tongue properly

[TheOneWithTheNicestSmile]

I'm from Middx & they were plimsolls then

now live in Lancs & my kids called them pumps

[TheBigBumTheory]

Plimsolls

North East Scotland

[leavesalmondoutofit]

San(d)shoes grew up in Glasgow
Penny Blacks now live in a town north of Glasgow

[monkeycat]

Gym shoes . Fife and Edinburgh.

[BabyMummy29]

Coaties or sometimes gymshoes - North East Scotland

Interesting BigBum the only people I've heard call them plimsolls up here are English

[madamecake]

Sand shoes - Northumberland

[TheBigBumTheory]

Babymummy

I blame it on my mum who went to boarding school in England

[badgerknowsbest]

Daps - South Wales

[FirstLoveMama]

Pumps - South Yorkshire

[GeeinItLaldy]

Gutties - NI

Mutton dummies - A term which seems to be unique to Belfast.

[BabyMummy29]

Ah thanks for that BigBumTheory - that explains it!

[kazzawazzawoo]

Pumps - West Yorkshire

[TaraLott]

Plimsolls, East Midlands.

[DipDabDabDip]

First thought was plimsoles then pumps...so both I guess! Born in Norfolk raised in South Yorks. Not sure what my parents would call them, plimsoles I think.

[GiniCooper]

Rubber dollies.
Guess where I'm from!

(I never owned them , my much older siblings informed me)

[DorothyGherkins]

Daps - Bristol. Ages since I heard them called that (comes over ll nostalgic) I have to call them pumps or plimsolls so that everyone understands what I mean!

[LifeOfPee]

Plimsolls. Born and bred in London now live in Herts.

[EmpressOfTheWellOfLostPlots]

Pumps - Hull

[youcantakethegirloutofwales]

Daps - S E Wales

[Tweasels]

Sand shoes here too (North East England).

[curlew]

Sand shoes or daps. The 1950s

[ControlGeek]

Daps, SW Wales, but although we never used the word we understood that people from the posher part of town called them 'plimsolls' (strange creatures they were)

[marmitecat]

Daps in cirencester. But plimsolls in my kentish youth

[KatieChooChoo]

Pumps - Stockport Greater Manchester.