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Franco steps into crafting shoes by hand Franco Crawford (pictured right: proudly displays the variety of his handwork) claims he can tell everything about a person by their shoes. Franco's venture is in London Road, Croydon where he sells his own hand-made footwear, moulded from the finest cow leather and painstakingly sewn by hand. The shoes designed around moulds he makes of a customers feet take up to two weeks to create and can cost from £500 a pair. According to Franco they are worth every penny. Franco was introduced to his trade during leather craft lessons at school in Guyana and has been making shoes since the age of 10. When the local tanning factory closed down and leather had to be imported from Brazil making shoes became too expensive for many shoe makers. Moving to Croydon in 1992 where Franco says: "It is what I love doing. I look forward to making shoes for people. Sometimes when I am working I think I was born to be a shoemaker." TELEPHONE: 020 8689 9625 now to make an appointment. "A good pair of well-made shoes created specifically for an individual should last up to 20 years." "Young people haven't got the faintest idea about how to look after their feet until they get old and then it's too late. "Then they have surgery for painful bunions. "I believe it is ill-fitting mass produced cheap shoes that are responsible for this. I am determined to put the old fashioned trade of cobbling back on the map." we do home visits.