About small-shoes.co.uk

This website has been set up by us, Janet and Chris Granger. We live in a small village in Staffordshire, in the beautiful Peak District. We felt we had to do something to make it easier to find small shoes in the UK, after Janet spent months trying to find ANY shoes that would fit her, and having no luck. Initially, we set it up as a support site, thinking that we would discover shops that did sell small shoes. In the end, as the shops obviously didn't exist, we began the long search for suppliers, ordered some shoes - and waited! Now, we have a collection, which we add to all the time, as you can see. Hopefully, this site will save you time, so that you don't have to do some of the fruitless searching around that we did.

Before we started searching for small shoes, our 'day job' was the business that we set up in 1996 - Janet Granger Designs, which is a company selling miniature embroidery kits to make items for twelfth scale dollshouses. If you would like to see the website, go to www.janetgranger.co.uk. That business takes up a lot of our time, as anyone who has been self-employed will know - and now hunting for shoes and selling them makes us even more busy!



When we occasionally get a few moments off, we do have some other interests. Janet completed an Open University course in Social Science, and after six years of part-time study can now put 'BSc' after her name. Chris is keen on website design and computers generally, so a lot of his time is spent online or reading about IT developments. He is also very musical, and plays the guitar and cornet.

We love walking, which is particularly good as we live in such a lovely part of the country.

Our other passion is gardening, and we have a cottage garden behind our house...


- plus a rather large vegetable garden plot which we rent from a neighbour - it's a lot of work, but very satisfying when it works!

We are both vegetarians, and are interested in alternative medicine and slower-paced lifestyles - we believe that you should enjoy the work you do, and that people should not be defined simply by their job title. We try to live simply, and take time to experience the important things in life.

Janet Granger, April 2003, amended April 2005, Nov 2007 and July 2008.