About the Author

Chris Helme served thirty years as a police constable working twenty-six years in his hometown of Brighouse. In 1990, he was awarded the British Empire Medal for this work in his community and retired in 2001. For twenty-nine years, Helme has written a nostalgia column in his local newspaper and since retiring from the police has been commissioned to write a further five books. Since 1997, he has written and published the bi-annual West and North Yorkshire Speaker Directories and is also a regular public speaker.