THE KATES HILL PRESS, DUDLEY, ENGLAND

 

AUTHORS

 

JULIE BANNER

Born in Birmingham’s Marston Green in 1973. Lived in Handsworth and currently in Smethwick.  Educated at Shirelands High School, Smethwick. Julie works in the Biochemistry Department at City Hospital and is undertaking a creative writing course.

 

JOHN CORNFIELD JUNIOR

John Cornfield was born 1820 in Hurst Hill, the first child of his parents’ marriage the previous year.  Throughout much of his life he was known as John Cornfield “Junior” to distinguish him from his father who had the same name.  Eight siblings followed, three of who in due course took their families to settle in Barrow in Furness.  There is certainly evidence in John’s work to suggest he visited Monmouthshire, probably to see his father’s relatives who had moved to South Wales about the time he was born.  Apart from that, however, he seems to have stayed fairly close to his roots for the rest of his troubled life.

The occasional dating of his birth as 1827 appears to stem from his first published work "A Round Unvarnished Tale of the Exploits of the Vicar of Sedgley", published in 1862, in which he stated "I have lived in the village half the years allotted as the period of man's existence on earth" implying he was 35 years old. He had, in fact, moved out of the village to live in Lower Tower Street, Birmingham for a period in the 1840s. The reason for this is not clear, but could be connected to his first child Ann being born at that address in November 1842, barely a month after John's marriage in October of that year to Phoebe Grainger.

A Wesleyan Methodist active in local politics, John was deeply and fervently committed to community issues.  He was an ardent (and therefore generally popular) advocate of social reform and people’s rights.  A long-time member of the Dudley Board of Guardians, the Sedgley School Board and, for many years, the Coseley Local Board, he was also was one of the supervisors who oversaw the rebuilding of Cann Lane Chapel (according to "The Story of the Ancient Manor of Sedgley" by E A Underhill published 1942).

John Cornfield was without doubt an eccentric with a vivid imagination. The "Round Unvarnished Tale" is an amazing 21-page tirade against William Lewis, the Vicar of Sedgley, whom John accused of demanding legally allowed but morally indefensible tithes from those (including John himself) least able to pay.  At one point he suggests the aforementioned unscrupulous Reverend gentleman must have imagined John to be living on the moon!

Perhaps nowhere was John’s passion more evident than in two poems, "To Jenny, in Heaven" and "To Jenny, on the second anniversary of her interment”, undated but apparently written in 1871 and 1873.  They are agonized outpourings of grief at the loss of his younger daughter Eliza Jane in 1871 after a six-month battle against tuberculosis. She was just 21.  John and Phoebe had no more children.

That he committed suicide in December 1890 there is no doubt. Throughout his life he had had a variety of occupations: manufacturers clerk, nail maker, firebrick manufacturer, commission agent and, latterly, pawnbroking.  By 1890 he believed his pawnbroking business to be in severe financial difficulties and for several months his family and friends had feared to leave him on his own, so strange was his behaviour. On the night of 6th December he left the house at 11.15pm. His wife and daughter Ann tried to follow but were delayed by a broken door knob.

By the time they got outside he had disappeared. Neighbours were called in to join the search but his body was not discovered until the next day in a well on property he had previously owned but had now sold. The opening to the well was very narrow and there was no way anybody could have fallen in accidentally. His getting into the well was, without doubt, a deliberate act. An inquest held December 9th 1890 held that he "Committed suicide by drowning himself in a well whilst temporarily insane".  He died intestate, leaving an estate with a gross value of £237 19s 11d.

His wife Phoebe carried on his pawnbroking business until she died in 1893. There are no direct descendants.  Their only surviving child, Ann, died unmarried in 1903.

Although he was a noteworthy character, his poetry in his life, as in death, was not highly rated.  His inquest report and obituary in the Dudley Herald December 13th 1890 was over seventy lines long. It was not, however, until line sixty-two that reference was made to his writing with the brief mention, "He was also of a literary turn of mind, and published some of his productions in book form."  TK Fellows, writing in “Staffordshire Poets” published 1928 (less than forty years after John’s death) remarks that “It is curious how circumstances appear to have obliterated his traces locally in such a comparatively short time”.

The above biographical notes on John Cornfield by Allison Gale, a descendent of the poet, appear in his book Allan Chace and Other Poems, published as a Black Country Classic by The Kates Hill Press in 2008.

 

BRIAN DAKIN

Aka Billy Spakemon

Born in Oldbury in 1952 to a working class family who all, men and women, worked in one of the steel mills, which had engulfed the landscape from the early 20th century. From an early age he developed a fascination for language and storytelling. While brothers and cousins went out and played Dakin would listen to the ‘ode uns’ talk about their lives and the lives of their parents and grandparents. Leaving home at 16 to play professional football with Swindon reinforced his love of his homeland. This passion found expression in writing that gradually gathered steam, and, under the tutelage of Dot Caxton resulted in a BA in Fine Arts as a Social Practice in which his work has become focused on language and identity.

Dakin has written hundreds of dialect poems, and numerous short stories. As Billy Spakemon, his lively and popular stage show sets his dialect verse to a musical background, where anything from a Gregorian chant to an Eminem rap track is used to accentuate the rhythm of the Black Country dialect. The effect is stunning. His work has been published in Raw Edge and The Black Country Bugle and he has made numerous appearances on Carl Chinn’s radio show.  He has appeared on BBC 1 in Inside Out and was filmed for the pilot of a quiz show in 2005.  Never Mind The Full Stops made it to BBC Four in May 2006 with Billy and Greg stokes appearing in show 2. Billy took part in the BBC’s voices project, representing the Black Country with Greg Stokes, Brendan Hawthorne, and Gary O’Dea.

In 2005 he set up the Creative Co-operative with Gary O’Dea and Greg Stokes and put on the successful Alternative Black Country Night Out.  A second co-operative RoosterKateSpake (with Laurence Hipkiss) was formed to promote spoken word performance in Dudley.  After Greg Stokes’ departure, Brian set up the Ommer and Chain club at the Holly Bush in Cradley with Hipkiss later in 2007 as a platform for a fusion of folk and spoken word.

A collection of his dialect verse, Chant of the Mutha Tung was published by the Kates Hill Press in 2002, Cor Yow Shurrup a Minit Billy! followed in 2006:  Billy produced a CD The Graiyte Eskairpe in 2005 followed by Sailskin Jones and a Boowt Load Moowa in 2006.  A third collection of Billy’s dialect poetry Tummy Jones – Odebury Mon was published in 2007.

 

IRENE M DAVIES

Born in Rowley in 1918. Educated at Currall Road Infants School, Hawes Lane Church of England School, and then Siviter’s Lane Girls School, she did not begin writing until later on in life although storytelling was always a feature of family life. Following the death of Dad in 1975, Irene M Davies was encouraged to write the experiences of her childhood and youth down by the children in her family who had been brought up in that tradition where storytelling and music hall song was the norm.  In so doing she produced not only a family history, but also a history of her place, Rowley Village, and her time.  Originally entitled Milestones of Memory, the work was added to over the years.  The Christmas chapter in particular has been expanded to incorporate the six Christmas stories by Irene that appeared in The Black Country Bugle, one of which filled the front page.  Irene appeared on the Carl Chinn Show in May 2006. Milestones of Memory was used in schools as a valuable aid to understanding the social history of the Black Country.  Milestones of Memory was published by The Kates Hill Press as A Pocketful of Memories –Rowley in 2005.  Irene died in May 2006.

 

DUD DUDLEY

Born in 1599 to Lord Dudley, Edward Sutton III by his “concubine” Elizabeth Tomlinson.  Dud Dudley came to manage his father’s iron works and developed a method for smelting iron using sea coal.  This was an important development in a time when timber for the charcoal used in smelting was in short supply.  He was beset by problems however, facing natural disaster with the great May Day flood destroying one venture, lawsuits from charcoal using iron masters, and riotous mobs.  In the civil war he fought with the royalists achieving the rank of Colonel.  He was captured and sentenced to death but escaped on the eve of his execution.  He continued in his ventures until old age but never achieved widespread success.  He died in 1684 leaving no offspring.  In 1665 he wrote Mettallum Martis which set out the “trials and sufferings” he endured in his ventures. He did not record his secrets however.

 

CLARICE HACKETT

Born in Blackheath in 1920, Clarice Hackett left school at 14 and went to work at an office in Birmingham.  She left there to join BTH in Blackheath, working on the teleprinter that was connected to head office in Rugby – electronic communication in the 1930s!  She moved on to be a Dictaphone typist in Halesowen then a telephonist and typist at a timber yard on the Wolverhampton Road.  While there the war broke out prompting the Liverpudlian owners to relocate to Hagley.  Clarice opted to stay in the Black Country, working at Accles and Pollock and then Stewart and Lloyds.  Clarice married and brought up 4 children.  She took up writing in earnest upon retiring, contributing regularly to the Quinton and Halesowen News before going on to write the Petticoat Page in the early years of the Black Country Bugle.  She was for many years a leading light in Dudley Writer’s Circle and has contributed to many Black Country writers’ groups. Clarice Hackett published a volume of short stories under the name of Annie Old Iron and a recipe book to raise funds for leukaemia research.

She has made numerous appearances on Carl Chinn’s radio show. The Sportsman was published by the Kates Hill Press in 1996.  This was followed by Stories of the Old Black Country and Reflections (2001) and Stories of the Old Black Country Volume 2 and More Reflections (2002). Her second novel The Hairy Mouse will be published in 2004.  She has written her autobiography, excerpts of which have appeared on the website rowleyregis.com.  In her later years she worked on a historical novel called The Flight From Worcester set in the English civil war and her autobiography.  Clarice died in August 2006.

 

CAROL HATHORNE

Born in West Bromwich’s Hallam Hospital in 1944 and brought up on Tipton’s Lost City, she was educated at St Mark’s CE Primary and Ocker hill Secondary before going to Wednesbury County Commercial School.  It was here that she began writing.  She went on to work as a reporter on a local newspaper, contributing to many magazines in her spare time.  She had a romantic novel published by Robert Hale and from that moment on has had a highly successful literary career.  Hale went on to publish 8 more of her novels under the name Carol Marsh.  The Scripture Union have published two Christian novels for adolescents and Christana have published angels Keep Watch about her time in Kenya.  In 2002 the Black Country Society brought out Slurry & Strawberries, the first part of her autobiography.  A further two parts, Bread Pudding Days, and A Woodbine On The Wall were to remain unpublished until 2006 when The Kates Hill Press brought together all three parts in one volume, Five Minutes Love.  Carol wrote a fourth part to the series All Shook Up which was published late 2007.

 

AMY LYONS

Little is currently known by the Kates Hill Press of Amy Lyons’ life other than she lived in Wednesbury at the beginning of the 20th Century and published Black Country Sketches in 1901.  The British Library records no further works.

 

SUE McMULLEN

Born in Birmingham 1963.  Educated at Sheldon Heath Comprehensive.  Sue designed the covers for the first two Kates Hill Press titles, Black Country Stories and Sketches and A Witness For Peace.  She recently began a creative writing course with the OU.  She lives in Warrington with her husband Pete and son Nathan.

 

CAROL MIDWOOD

Born October 1954 in Belfast, to a Protestant mother and Catholic father. Due to tensions regarding mixed religions the family moved to Stourbridge when she was five.

Educated at Stourbridge Girl’s High School, followed by a teaching course in French and Education at City of Leeds and Carnegie College, Leeds. At school Carol won several creative writing contests and always wanted to be a writer. At college she retained a keen an interest in The Black Country – and her 20,000 word English Thesis was entitled, ‘The Black Country, as Portrayed by Traditional Songs and Poetry.’

Carol moved back down to Stourbridge in 1976 to marry John and settled in Wollaston. She started teaching at Willingsworth High School, Tipton in 1976 and remained there until 1989 when she left the profession to jointly run a pub in Upper Gornal with John. This was The Old Mill and was the original setting for her Edna and Arthur poems. The inspiration came from the colourful assortment of clientele and many of the customers often commented that they could see a bit of themselves in either Edna or Arthur.

In 1993 John and Carol decided to return to their professional lives and sold the business before returning to Stourbridge, where they still live with an assortment of animals! To date, as well as the E & A poems, Carol has written over two hundred poems, numerous short stories and six full length novels. Some of her stories have been published in women’s magazines and she has written articles for Reader’s Digest and The Black Country Bugle. She have also won a few writing competitions in Writers’ News magazine. In October 2007 she appeared on The Weakest Link, winning it!

Today Carol teaches French at Redhill School, Stourbridge – which used to be Stourbridge Girl’s High School.  Edna and Arthur was published by the Kates Hill Press in 2005.  A series of short stories based on the songs of Jon Raven, The Bawdy Bloody Black Country appeared in 2007.

 

EDNA MITCHELL

Born Wilnecote near Tamworth 1930, her recollections, The Evacuees was published in the anthology A Pocketful of Memories – War Memories in 2007.

 

BARRY MORRIS

Born Liverpool in 1953, Barry Morris was in the Royal Marines for 14 years serving in Northern Ireland and the Falklands as well was in Vietnam with the UN.  He left the forces in the mid 1980s and returned to a Liverpool devastated by Thatcherism.  In 1988 he began retraining as a social worker at Sunderland going into practice with Sefton Social Services in 1990.  While in Vietnam Morris kept a journal from which he developed Ghost Voices published by the Kates Hill Press in 2003.  A collection of his short stories The Book Cellar was published in 2007. He is currently working on a novel, Tiger Moth and a second collection of short stories.

 

TOSSIE PATRICK

Born in Blackheath in 1923. As a little girl, she used to visit nearby Shenstone Woods. These visits spawned a lifelong love of nature and her surroundings while school gave her a lifelong love of poetry.  She began writing her own poems and was a member of the same writer’s circle as Clarice Hackett.  Several of her poems were published in The Black Country Bugle. Her volume recalling her Blackheath childhood, A Pocketful of Memories – Blackheath was published by the Kates Hill Press in 1998.  This was followed in 2001 by the publication of a collection of poems, Memories and Thoughts.  Tossie has written several short stories, some of which were published in Tales With A Twist in 2007 and her recollections of the war years appeared in the anthology A Pocketful of Memories – War Memories in the same year.  Tossie has made numerous appearances on The Carl Chinn Show on which renditions of her poems have proved particularly popular.

 

SAMUEL SMILES

Samuel Smiles was born on 23rd December 1812 in Haddington, Scotland, the first of eleven children.  His parents kept a general store there.  Leaving school at 14 he became an apprentice with Dr Robert Lewins before going on to study medicine at Edinburgh University in 1829.  While there he contributed several articles on parliamentary reform to the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.  He returned to Haddington to practice medicine but continued to write about parliamentary reform for the Leeds Times.  He was eventually asked to become  editor of that journal in 1838, remaining in post until 1845.  In 1840 he was made secretary of the Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association, a Chartist organisation.  By the end of the decade however he was disillusioned with the organisation, some of its leaders advocating the use of  physical force to achieve its ends. He became instead an exponent of self help as the means by which individuals could escape the oppression of the industrial age and it is for his writings on self help, and his biographies of industrialists and engineers, as examples of achievement through self help, that he is  remembered. 

His works on self help were; Self Help (1859), Character (1871), Thrift (1875), Duty (1880), Life and Labour (1887).

His biographies include; The Life of George Stephenson (1857), The Lives of Engineers (1862), Industrial Biography (1863), Boulton and Watt (1865), Men of Invention and Industry (1884). 

A criticism of the biographies is that Smiles is selective in the material he includes, so as to support his self help thesis, and his work has become identified as an exposition of “Victorian values.”  Indeed he was criticised by socialists in his own time for eschewing the notion of collective responsibility and action.  The chapters on Dud Dudley and Andrew Yarranton from his Industrial Biography, which would be of particular interest to Black Country readers, were published as a Black Country Classic under the title Industrial Biography – The Black Country Chapters in 2007.

 

 

 

RAYMOND SMOUT

Raymond Smout was born and brought up in Roseville, Coseley and spent the first 26 years of his life there.  He moved south to join the Hampshire Constabulary where he served for 31 years until retirement.  He kept in touch with his native Black Country however through friends, relatives, and frequent visits.  Proud that his great grandfather was one of Coseley’s founding councillors he has always had an interest in the town and its history, amassing a wealth of photos, articles, maps, books and clippings over the years.  Before her death in 2001 at the age of 95, Raymond’s mother encouraged him to write a family history.  Having achieved that, his unofficial history of Coseley seemed a logical progression. This was published as part of the Pocketful of Memories series in 2007.  A Pocketful of Memories – Roseville was published later in the same year. 

 

COLIN STOKES

Born in Dudley in 1958, educated at Sledmere and Sir Gilbert Claughton schools, he trained in Glasgow for the merchant navy and travelled widely before returning to the west midlands to work with Sandvik.  In the mid 1990s he went to work with gas generating company AES in Wales.  Concern with environmental issues took him to Brazil.  The Travel Log of a Brazilian Nutter describes his first trip there. He is being encouraged to describe his other travels, which are many and varied.

 

DES STOKES

Born in Dudley in 1923, educated at Kates Hill and The Baylies Schools.  Served in the Durham Light Infantry. Was a Labour Councillor for St John’s ward in the late 1940s. A man of many talents, he has worked in industry, driven coaches, ran the short lived Desto Coaches, and has been a raconteur in his own community doing stand up stints at the Cross Keys on Rowley Road.  A CD of his material entitled “Uncle Des” was produced by Roosters Studio in 2006.

 

GREG STOKES

Born in Dudley in 1955. A chequered career has seen Stokes ride shotgun for Dudley Co-op, work bars on Dudley Zoo, train as a clinical chemist in Birmingham and ultimately develop and run a specialist unit in Abu Dhabi, which investigated infertility. His return to the UK in 1985 held tragedy round the corner as his father was murdered in the aftermath of the bombing of Libya by the US. Stokes would go on to describe this in “A Witness For Peace” (1994) In 1988 Stokes retrained as a social worker on Wearside and worked through the grades to manage a busy children’s centre in Sandwell before switching to community social work in Walsall in 1994 where he handled complex child protection cases. Stokes began writing while in Leicester in the early 1980s, and has written several novels, over 200 short stories, and a travelogue as well as “A Witness For Peace”. With Barry Morris he developed a training program for workers helping families bereaved through murder. He has appeared on BBC Two’s Split Screen discussing media intrusion, in a BBC One documentary about the life of Lenny Henry, in a clip for the BBC Four quiz show Never Mind The Full Stops, the BBC Two programme The Comedy Map of Britain and in Lenny's Britain (BBC One).  He has made numerous appearances on Carl Chinn’s radio show.  Other radio credits include Saul Abner’s show on WCR and Jimmy Franks on WM.  He was also involved in the BBC Voices project, representing the Black Country with Billy Spakemon, Brendan Hawthorne, and Gary O’Dea.

In 2005 Stokes began live performances of his fiction at the Alternative Black Country Night Out put on by the Creative Co-operative of which he was a founder member along with Billy Spakemon and Gary O’Dea.  A second co-op, RoosterKateSpake, was formed when Stokes and Billy Spakemon were joined by Laurence Hipkiss to promote spoken word performance in Dudley.  This ran until January 2007 when Stokes left to produce the Alternative Black Country Revue with Lydon Evetts (April/May 2007) and to pave the way for the Kates Hill Press to produce Live Literature events in its own right.

In 2003 Stokes returned to lab work.  He lives in Kates Hill with his wife Carol and daughters Louise and Lucy. Black Country Stories and Sketches (1992), “A Witness For Peace” (1994), Tried by Prejudice (1999), The Gulf (2004), A Pack of Saftness (2004) and Second City Stories (2006) have been published by the Kates Hill Press.  An Audio Book The Grant featuring two of his short stories was produced in association with Roosters Studio in 2005. A second audio book Doctor, which included performances by Louise Stokes and Brendan Hawthorne, was produced in assocoiation with Poetry Wednesbury in 2007.

 

LOUISE MARY STOKES

Louise Stokes was born in Somerset in 1962, and grew up in Shropshire before studying a B.A. in Philosophy and Politics at Durham University, moving to Birmingham in 1984 to train as a psychiatric nurse. She devoted fifteen years of her life to the health service, working first with adults, and later specialising in child psychiatry. During these years, she gained a Certificate in Individual and Family Counselling, an M.A. in Sociological Research in Health Care, and a Diploma in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing. Up until the events of 1998, written about in this book, Louise had never taken one single day off sick, even completing shifts only hours before the births of three of her four children. The twelve months sick leave imposed upon her by health service managerial bullies ended one vocation only to open the door almost immediately to another when she embarked on a theatre studies course at Birmingham Theatre School in 2000. From here, she went on to achieve an HND in Community Theatre at Dudley College. The ability to write, which had been given to her as a gift, she believes, to ease her pain in her darkest moments, developed into a new career, and Louise now writes and performs for a living as well as running drama and creative workshops for children and adults. Her previous background has meant she now uses her drama and writing training and skills to work creatively with people experiencing mental health issues as well as with a variety of other people. Louise works both as co-director of Black Country based Fizzog Theatre Company, and as a freelance artist. Most of her work is issue based and awareness raising, using both humour and serious social comment through the mediums of literature and drama to try and challenge perceptions which are discriminatory, prejudiced, ignorant, or just plain unhelpful.

She currently lives in Handsworth Wood, with her husband Robin, four sons, and two cats.

As a member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers, Louise is also a practicing Spiritual Healer, and has completed her second Degree Reiki Healer training.  She believes that Faeries, Angels and all her Guardians guided her through the dark tunnels of the health service and brought her out into the Light of a better world.  Her book Marooned was published by the Kates Hill press in 2007.

Louise developed the character Kimmy Sue Anne, a chav poet/philosopher, for the Alternative black Country Revue. From Kimmy Sue Anne, a whole family of characters developed, which have proved increasingly popular on the west midlands comedy circuit. The collections The Forts of Kimmy Sue Anne and Conversations With The Family Of The Grotesque were published late 2007.  

 

JOHN SUMMERTON

John Summerton was born in Birmingham in 1959 and grew up a stone’s throw from Birmingham City’s home of St Andrews. He went to Wyndcliffe Road Junior and infants and Saltley Grammar School. He left Birmingham in 1977, moving to Liverpool to complete a degree in biochemistry. He spent the next four years realizing he wasn’t cut out for a career in scientific research, moving to Southampton in the process. After a year of doing various bits and bobs he embarked on a career in nursing, firstly as a nursing assistant in a residential home for people with learning disabilities. During these years he was the lead singer of the mildly legendary and very noisy folk group Clause IV, once described by ‘Due South’ magazine as ‘Southampton’s answer to the Pogues’. He moved to Macclesfield in 1988 and lives there to this day. He spent years as an activist in the local Labour Party and even became a Borough Councillor but fell off the left-hand edge of the party when Tony Blair became leader He qualified as a mental health nurse in 1991 and has worked for the NHS ever since currently managing a crisis and home treatment team. As a lifelong Blues fan and long term employee of the NHS he was due a break and this came with the publication of his first book ‘My Mate StAn – a personal history of St Andrews and stuff’ by Kates Hill Press in 2006. He is a frequent if irregular contributor of articles to the Birmingham City football fanzine ‘Made in Brum’.

He lives with wife Mary-Ann in an old draughty house on a hill with their two cats and three unruly dogs.

 

MARTYN THOMAS

Born in Dudley in 1956.  Educated at Kates Hill Primary School, Dudley Grammar School, and Loughborough University.  He served for many years in the Fleet Air Arm.  He now lives on Vancouver Island where he works for a logging company servicing the huge crane helicopters.  These duties took him to the fires of British Columbia in the summer of 2003. 

 

SYLVIA THOMAS

Born in North Shields in 1927, bred in

 Dudley.  Educated at the Intermediate School.  Her piece, My War Memories has been on the Kates Hill Press website since 2004 where it has been one of the most frequently visited items.  It was published in the anthology A Pocketful of Memories – War Memories in 2007.

 

CAROL WARD

Carol was born at the end of the Second World War and has lived all her life in the Black Country. She was educated at an all girl’s school where she discovered George Orwell and thought she had died and gone to literary heaven…

Carol writes light verse in the hope of amusing and entertaining.  It is poetry that is surreal and anarchic, based on contemporary issues and personal observations.  She considers herself a modern Edward Lear of sorts – minus the Owl and The Pussycat. Carol tries to create nursery rhymes for Grown Ups and also for children.

Carol has been featured in the “Express and Star” and described by Peter Rhodes as “The Black Country’s Pam Ayers”.

She has also featured three times on the BBC’s Black Country website and some of her poetry has been published on there.

Carol is a member of The Tettenhall Writers’ Group and has appeared at City Voices, the Lamp Tavern in Dudley on the occasion of Women’s Day, and has made several radio broadcasts. A collection of her poetry, Happiness Is… was published by The Kates Hill Press in 2007.

 

JULIA WAREING

Born in Birmingham in the 1920s, wrote One of Eleven for her family.  Published by the Kates Hill Press as A Pocketful of Memories – Acock’s Green in 2006.

 

 

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