Wakefield Stars:- Stan Barstow. Author

Stan Barstow was born in 1928 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He attended Ossett Grammar School and started writing in the fifties. The novel ‘A Kind of Loving’ in 1960 was a major success, and was made into a film starring Alan Bates and June Ritchie. See SE3320 : Wakefield’s walk of fame, Westmorland Street (2)

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