Ken Craven

I grew up in Manchester and after marrying in the seventies we moved north to the Bury area of Lancashire where our son was born. After retiring as a Research Officer for Salford Museum and Heritage Service, my wife and I moved to North Yorkshire before relocating to Warwickshire, where we are enjoying watching our two grandsons growing up.

Having an interest in local history, I began writing articles for local newspapers and county magazines as well as having short stories and poems broadcast on BBC local radio and also appeared on BBC TV North West. As well as my Kindle book, The Victorian Painter and the Poet's Wife, (my biography of the Haigh-Wood family), I have written three books about Bury local history. My first collection of poems, Sgt Pepper In Memoriam, appeared in 1990 and has now been published as a Kindle eBook and a paperback.