Gerry Wolstenholme

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Gerry Wolstenholme
OccupationAuthor, historian
SpouseLinda (–2004; her death)

Gerry Wolstenholme is an English author and sports historian from Blackpool, Lancashire. [1] His genres are football and cricket. He wrote his first book in 1992.

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Early life

Wolstenholme was born in Blackpool, England, and became a supporter of Blackpool F.C., the town's professional football club. [2] He attended Northlands school between the ages of three and five, then Devonshire Road School in Blackpool and Baines Grammar School in Poulton-le-Fylde. [3]

He saw an advertisement for Civil Service examinations and decided to take them. He passed, and moved to London to begin working at Her Majesty's Treasury in Whitehall. He was promoted, and worked in the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [3]

Career

He produced The Cheltenham Spectator and Festival News, a daily summary of the Cheltenham Cricket Festival, for six years. He also published his own The Cricket Postcard Collectors' Journal, which ran for 24 issues. [3]

He contributed regularly to Blackpool F.C.'s matchday programmes. [3]

Personal life

Wolstenholme married Linda in 1968. Four years later, they returned to Blackpool, where he worked for the Department of National Savings. He also ran a second-hand and antiquarian bookstore on Elizabeth Street. [4] [5] He wrote his first book, The West Indian Tour of England, 1906 during this time. [3]

He became a widower upon his wife's death in 2004. He wrote The Lost-Love Poems of a Madman, a book of poetry, as a result of it and his subsequent breakdown. [3]

Bibliography

A selected list of books Wolstenholme has written.

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