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

[MardyBra]

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/School_plimsolls.jpg

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

I'm from Middx & they were plimsolls then

now live in Lancs & my kids called them pumps

Plimsolls

North East Scotland

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

Gym shoes . Fife and Edinburgh.

Coaties or sometimes gymshoes - North East Scotland

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

Sand shoes - Northumberland

Babymummy

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

Daps - South Wales

Pumps - South Yorkshire

Gutties - NI

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

Ah thanks for that BigBumTheory - that explains it!

Pumps - West Yorkshire

Plimsolls, East Midlands.

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.

Rubber dollies.
Guess where I'm from!

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

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!

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

Pumps - Hull

Daps - S E Wales

Sand shoes here too (North East England).

Sand shoes or daps. The 1950s

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)

Daps in cirencester. But plimsolls in my kentish youth

Pumps - Stockport Greater Manchester.