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 : Wakefields walk of fame, Westmorland Street (2)
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