Barry Durham

Barry Durham was born in Manchester in 1947. He was educated at North Manchester Grammar School and Salford Technical College where he studied Maths, Physics and Chemistry for a while before getting extremely bored with Applied Mathematics and dropping out.After marrying his wife Barbara in 1968 the couple moved to the Preston area and Barry became a Junior Reporter on a small local newspaper called The Garstang Courier at the ripe old age of 23. The next 40-odd years saw him work for a number of publications in the Lancashire area. He has been a reporter, feature writer, sub-editor, Editor and Group Editor and more recently an Associate Lecturer at The University of Central Lancashire in Preston where he taught Newspaper and Magazine Design to post graduate level until budget cuts seem to have forced his final retirement. This has, however, given him the opportunity to write full time (apart from tending his garden, that is!)He lives in the pretty village of Chipping in Lancashire with his wife of 40-something years, has two grown-up sons, a grown-up granddaughter and three young grandsons.