 
b.1928 | SILLITOE, Allan
English novelist
Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, the son of an illiterate tannery labourer. His childhood was shadowed by the financial problems of the family, but it did not stop his passion for reading and he started to plan a career as a writer.
At the age of fourteen Sillitoe left school and worked in a number of jobs in Nottingham factories. He also served in the Royal Air Force as a wireless operator. He was sent to Malaya, and on his return he discovered he had tuberculosis. He spent sixteen months in an RAF hospital, and during this period he started to write and read intensively.
Key Achievements:Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958); The Loneliness of A Long Distance Runner(1959); The Death of William Poster (1965); A Tree on Fire(1967); The City Adventures of Marmalade Jim (1967).
Web:www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sillitoe.htm |
July 5, 1946 | SMITH CBE, Paul
Fashion - Designer
His introduction into fashion was when his father took him to a local clothing warehouse at the age of eighteen to work as a gofer. By the time he was twenty he was managing the first boutique to open in Nottingham. Now he is the most successful British / European designer in Japan with 162 shops. Most notable points in Paul's career include the revival of the boxer short and filofix in the early 1980's.
Key Achievements:BKCEC award (1991); CBE (1994); The Queens Award (1995).
Web:www.paulsmith.co.uk/definitive/index.html |
born? | SLATER MBE, Colin
Sport - Commentator
Colin Slater has been reporting on the Magpies for BBC Radio Nottingham since the station began more than thirty years ago.
He has just received an MBE for his services to the community and recognises his charity work and long service as a local magistrate.
Key Achievements:MBE (2001) | 
| STARDUST, Alvin
Music - Rock singer
Alvin was born Bernard Jewry in North London and brought up in Nottinghamshire. He had four hit singles in the 60's under the name of Shane Fenton. But 'My Coo Ca Choo', his debut single as Alvin Stardust, the mean and moody leather-clad persona, turned him into a star in the early 1970's. It became a huge international hit and spent over six months in the charts. He had become known the world over and was awarded the Music Week Best Male Recording Artist Award and the British Pop Awards Best Live Performance.In recent years he has turned his skills to acting on television.
Key Achievements:Music Business World Diamond Award (1987); Godspell(1988); Hollyoaks (1995); Solid Silver Seventies tour (1994); David Copperfield (1995).
Web:www.rockyhorror.co.uk/cast/as.html |
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