Bring back the Yorkshire dialect - ‘A reet gradely idea’

Oct 4 2008 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

After serving in the Middle East during the Second World War he settled in Golcar and worked as a teacher for Huddersfield Education Authority.

William and his wife Barbara had three daughters.

Katharine promised her mother before she died last year that she would promote her father’s writing.

She said: “My mother had Alzheimer’s but, before it got really bad, she used to take my hand and say ‘promise me you will do something for your father’s work’. I promised my mum I would do my very best.

“My mum was the linchpin. She encouraged him to get an education and become a teacher and a writer. She was a wonderful woman.”

Some of William’s work, including the book Tales of Moortop, is available in libraries in Kirklees.