Alan Sinclair

Author Biography

No Trees down Our Street

I served an apprenticeship in the Sunderland marine engineering works of Sir William Doxford and Sons, and afterwards worked as a design draughtsman in the Research and Development Office. There followed a further two years in the drawing office of a London consulting engineers on power station design before, at the age of twenty-eight, I changed careers completely and trained as a teacher of English. As an external student I obtained a BA Honours degree in English Literature from London University, taught at Schools in Norwich, the Cotswolds and Bristol, and retired as Head of English in a large comprehensive School. My wife and I have lived in Andalucia for twenty years now and love it.

I’m interested in walking – done the whole of the Pennine Way – DIY, football, reading biographies and non-fiction, after years of teaching Literature.

I wrote ’No Trees Down Our Street’ thirty years ago because Christopher Street , my extended family, my close friends and neighbours, influenced not only my childhood, but also the rest of my life; and the book has lain in a drawer all that time until friends persuaded me to publish it. So, after merely adding another thirty years to the book’s memory span, here it is. Hope you enjoy it!

Alan Sinclair