During 1960-67 I operated a small shotgun cartridge loading business but this finished when my components suppliers closed down and I could no longer obtain components at competitive prices. In 1961 I designed and made a 12-bore shotgun, intending to follow it up with six more, but I did not have the money to do this. Shooting (hunting) was my first love, and all my spare time was spent in this way. I would have loved to have served an apprenticeship in the gun trade but my father would not hear of it. During the early years when I was working in Birmingham, I spent most of my lunch hours in the Birmingham gun quarter. I accepted it but never found it very interesting. My father was a dedicated bank manager and I was destined for banking from birth. In 1990 I collated these into a book entitled Fifty Tales from the Fifties. Between 1952-57 I wrote 56 stories for them, many serialized. I was first published at the age of 12 in The Tettenhall Observer, a local weekly newspaper. Weale) and she always encouraged me to write. My mother was a pre-war historical novelist (E. I was born on November 21, 1939, in the small village of Hopwas, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.
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