Shoemaker’s workshop. Bernard Jakubowski

‘I come from a shoemakers’ family, as my father and grandfather were both shoemakers. I saw what shoemaking looked like from a young age.’

Bernard’s relatives on his mother’s side, an uncle and a cousin, were also shoemakers. After his vocational training, Bernard worked at a shoemaker’s cooperative. He opened his own workshop in 1995 at ul. Kopernika where he works till this day.

This is what Bernard says about his vocational training:

‘I began my training at ul. Garbary 35. I met there master Franciszek Czarnecki who was a Warta Football Club supporter. He liked football boots so my training began with making football shoes. On 15 July 1962 I began working and learning there. I also went to a vocational school at ul. Nowowiejskiego so I was both studying and working. I had contact with the profession all the time.’