About the Author

Wilbert Marshall Young was born at Wheatsheaf Farm in Bucknall and carried on the family farming tradition until 1959 when, having been attacked and injured by a bull, he was forced to give up the land. He joined what was then the Milk Marketing Board as a milk recorder in Gloucestershire - where the milder climate aided his recovery - before moving on to Agricultural Central Trading, working in Herefordshire, Yorkshire and finally in Cheshire. He married Betty in 1949 and they have two children, Elizabeth and Charles and four grandsons. Prior to his retirement, the whole family owned and ran the Lincoln Castle Hotel in North Lincolnshire and after this was sold Harry (as he is universally known) and Betty travelled around Britain and Europe in a motor home for three years before settling in Hornsea in East Yorkshire. Having left school at 14 with no qualifications, at the age of 38 Harry took his GCE O Level English in which he gained a Grade B. He began writing these reminiscences of his early life in 1999. He still enjoys participating in both game keeping and shooting activities which have always been a major part of his life.