Group North – Northern Writers

A piece from John’s autobiography CHAPTER TWENTY THREE – GROUP NORTH Group North was the name devised by Harry Kershaw for the small group of writers who kept Coronation Street on the screen in the very early days. It was a small group chosen mainly by Harry from Northern writers …

Covid 19

Came across a letter today from Lez Cooke, Senior Researcher at Royal Holloway, London University.  I had thought the virus had passed me by, but he reminded me of some lines which I’d written in  a play I had part written  and then abandoned, giving up the attempt  to rewrite …

Remembering filming near Settle in the summer of ’76

While being isolated due to coronavirus John has been busy adding to the blog on his website – and finishing his Autobiography in the hope that a publisher may take it on. Looking out of the window on the best summer we have had in many-a-year has reminded him of …

Aunt Polly

She was my mother’s sister, one of the five children born to my grandparents. Trained as a teacher via a scholarship she probably agreed with the old adage, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. She was a competent pianist and also organist at the local Anglican church to which …

Names

A friend suggested I should type in my name on my Internet search engine. I did, hardly believing it would produce anything.   The first item it produced related to a John Finch who was a highly thought of London clockmaker in 1765, which might remotely connect, I thought, to my …

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