A Derann Story

As a youngster my world was satisfyingly filled with a just a couple of friends, Dinky Toys, numerous plastic model kits and a Muffin the Mule string puppet, which I’m sure was made of a light metal alloy and was painted in bright colours (probably lead based paints too!) I would spend hours crawling around…

I was born in the town of Wolverhampton during the final days of November 1948, my brother Charles appeared some two years later. My somewhat quick tempered Father, Thomas Frederic William, was a sewing machine engineer and my mother, Anne Dorothy, a peaceful, loving woman who worked hard all her life, scrimping and saving as…