About the Author

Donald Bullock was born in Gloucester's Clapham in the early 'Thirties and was educated at Kingsholm Junior School, Tuffley Open Air School, and the notorious National School. His was an adventurous and perceptive childhood spent in every corner of the earthy and parochial Gloucester of the 'Thirties, in its then close and rolling countryside, and on the banks of its rivers, streams and pools.