Jim Brown

Jim Brown was born in Southampton, UK, in 1932, served as a Southampton police Detective and Deputy Coroner's Officer until leaving to become Chief Security and Safety Officer on the Southampton Container Terminal in 1970. A local author and researcher with a passion for Southampton's history, he has lived and worked in the City all his life and in his retirement has devoted himself to investigating the City's past.

Vice President of Bitterne Local History Society and on the Executive Committee of the Hampshire Constabulary History Society, he has access to much previously unpublished material and photographs. For example, his two murder books "Southampton Murder Victims" Volumes One and Two, contain murder scenes of crime photographs published for the first time.

Soon to be published (September 2013) is "Southampton's Lucky Jim - A County Borough Copper", his personal account of life as a Southampton police officer in the 1950/60s. This gives a detailed account of exactly what policing was like in this period, totally different to modern policing, often politically incorrect by modern standards, and is a fascinating piece of social history in what is now a bygone age.