My friend Terry Brown, who has died of cancer aged 71, was a self-trained shoemaker and founder of the company Roosters, making handmade shoes and boots to a high standard.
Entirely self-taught, he began making shoes in the 1970s, and by the 80s was an influential member of the independent shoemaker community. He gave his company the name Roosters “because roosters herald the breaking of a new dawn”.
