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Liberation Day

Poetry

Teaching:

I qualified as a teacher in 1968 at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, and then taught as Music Coordinator in a Junior School in Luton for three years. I moved to be Head of Music at a Comprehensive School in Stevenage. I was Head of English at Glebe House School in Norfolk and then moved on to Felsted, a Public School in Essex. I was Head of English at Pownall Hall School in Cheshire before becoming Head of Drama at St. Faith's School in Cambridge. Whilst at St. Faith's, I was awarded an RSA diploma in 'drama in education' in July 1992 with the highest mark awarded that year for my examined work in the classroom. This was just before being diagnosed in August 1992 with leukaemia, which ended my teaching career.

During my teaching career, I directed many Shows some of which I wrote myself, or as with “Tacitus” in partnership with a friend and colleague.

Writing and performance:

Musical shows I have written: “No Rest for the Wicked”, “Red Champagne”, “Tacitus” (in partnership with Tim Freebairn). “Revelation 13”, a dramatisation of a well-known novel. “Not Another Soap”, a comedy.

“Red Champagne”
has been performed at:
Glebe House School, Hunstanton
Felsted Preparatory School, Essex
Pownall Hall School, Wilmslow, Cheshire.

“Tacitus”
has been performed at:
Glebe House School, Hunstanton (twice)
Trent College, Notts.
Felsted Preparatory School, Essex
St John's Beaumont, Old Windsor, Berks.
Terra Nova, Jodrell Bank, Cheshire
St Faith's School, Cambridge.

I acted with several amateur dramatic groups: two in King's Lynn, one in Dersingham, two in Hunstanton and two in Fakenham. I also took part in many shows from “Yeoman of the Guard” (for which I was awarded a cup) to “Oklahoma” and many pantomimes.

I have always loved the theatre and am at present researching the “Occupation Theatre” in Guernsey.

My first dramatic efforts were with the Boy Scouts in Hitchin where with “Skip”, I helped to write the scripts, wrote the music for and acted in our own special brand of “Gang Shows”.

Apart from writing School Musicals e.g. “Liberation Day” which has just been completed, I write much poetry for local publications. I have had a book of my poems published in 1998 under the title “A Load of Mullarkey” and I have had several poems published in anthologies. I also have read my poems at various events and can be seen in the professionally made video “The Faces of Lynn”, reading a poem I wrote about one of the first victims of an air raid which took place on King's Lynn on 19th January 1915.

In Guernsey, I am often referred to by the President of the Guernsey Occupation Society as their Poet Laureate!