Roy Westall
BIOGRAPHY
Author and publisher of Lancashire and Cheshire Local History books and historical novels. Member of Society of Authors, and National Association of Writers in Education. Membeship Secretary Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. Proprietor of ’Portico Library (Manchester) and ’Friend’ of both Manchester University’s Jon Rylands Library and the University’s Centre for Regional History.
WEBSITE
GENRE
Local History And Historical Novels
PUBLICATIONS | PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Stockport - A Pictorial History - pub. Phillimore & Co. 1988, republished 1999 (Reword Publishers)
Wilmslow & Alderley Edge - pub. Phillimore & Co. 1994
Please see my website www.reword.co.uk for a ful list of books that I have subsequently written and/or published.
WORKSHOP | READINGS EXPERIENCE","REFERENCE/S
I am a supply teacher (primary and secondary). Whenever possible I will talk to my pupils about writing stories.
REFERENCE/S
Available, but I do not send them on speculation. Please email me and let me know what sort of organisation you want a reference from.
GROUP SIZE PREFERENCE
No preference
GROUP AGE PREFERENCE
No preference
WORKING LANGUAGE/S
English & Dialect Lancashire
AREA/S PREPARED TO TRAVEL
30 miles from centre of Manchester but further by
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