Writer: David Lindley
Born and brought up in Wakefield, then the county town of the West Riding of Yorkshire, David Lindley has lived in Cockermouth for forty-five years. He first came there as tutor/organiser of the Workers’ Educational Association in West Cumbria. In 1990 he left the WEA for a free-lance existence which included teaching adult education courses for the Universities of Newcastle and Lancaster, and for almost forty years he led residential weekends on both literature and music at Higham Hall (Bassenthwaite Lake). Publications to which he has contributed include The London Magazine, The Use of English and the Bloodaxe anthology The New Lake Poets (1991). For twenty five years he served as founder chairman of Cockermouth Music Society. His friendship with Lorna Graves lasted from 1981 to her death in 2006.
