Shoe repairer

Keith Stanley

“It’s a slow dollar but it’s better than working with people and it keeps me out of trouble,” says Keith Stanley, a 45-year-old man who repairs shoes and umbrellas.

Stanley has been plying his trade on a plot of land opposite the Central High School at the corner of Leopold and Smyth Streets for 10 years.

Enlarging on how he became involved in the trade,