The photograph was labelled West Bar, but this is 147 Gibraltar Street which was a continuation of West Bar. Very likely the shop of Harry Short, boot dealer. An advertisement of 6th November 1903 in the Sheffield Evening Telegraph was advertising the Army Bluchers shown here on the sign at Harry Short, 147 West Bar. (Information from S. Hedges) �Blucher� is taken from General Gebhard Leberecht von Bl uuml;cher, a Prussian general who was one of the commanders of the army that defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. The type of boot he commissioned had side pieces that joined in the front with laces. The style was later adopted by armies across Europe and had become a fashionable sporting shoe by the 1850�s which also became known as the derby shoe. By the turn of the century, it was being worn with tailored clothing.

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