Authors profile
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Bert Ward (May Gill) Bert Ward was born in North Ormesby Middlesbrough in 1922 and lived on the Grove Hill council estate from age seven. He joined the Royal Navy aged 15 and left in 1946 having had a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs. In 1956 he left the railways where he was a goods guard to work as a rigger at ICI Wilton and attended WEA classes. In 1957 he went to Ruskin College, Oxford, on a trade union scholarship, then worked for the AEU in London. For research into the British apprenticeship system he was awarded a mature state scholarship and studied economics and politics at the LSE. He started writing poetry and short stories when working as a senior lecturer. When he retired to Middlesbrough, he attended Andy Croft’s and Heather Bennett’s Creative Writing classes. Mudfog published some of his short stories, notably Dear Bob 1931 and 1932. He has since published Dear Bob 1933 himself and has just completed and published a brief political autobiography, Who’ll Take The Collection? Both these titles are available from Mudfog Press by post (see contact information), but not from INP. |