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THE KEY & HEEL BAR, South Street Arcade (1968–2020): Cut Keys, Fixed Heels, Asked No Questions
A man in a brown coat who could do both in four minutes.

Keys, which this shop cut for half a century. Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas, “Key cutting machine”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
PERTH — We remember the Key & Heel Bar, where a man in a brown coat would cut you a key, fix your heel and tell you about his allotment, all in the time it took to buy a pie.
It is survived by a thousand spare keys to doors nobody can remember, in drawers all over Perth.
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