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Article: Maurice Colbeck Author and editor of Yorkshire Life
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- March 28, 2005
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Maurice Colbeck, who has died aged 79, was told by his English
teacher at Warwick Road Elementary School in Batley that he should be
a writer when he grew up. Furthermore, said Mr Hermon Hall, he should
write thrillers.
Maurice did become a writer. But he never wrote a thriller.
Instead, he wrote humorous books and books about Yorkshire -
sometimes humorous books about Yorkshire - and adventure books for
children. Titles included Yorkshire, My Yorkshire, What's Funny about
Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales Stonewaller, Made in Yorkshire, Yorkshire:
The Dales, Yorkshire History Makers, Yorkshire Moorlands, Queer Folk,
Queer Goings On, Calendar Year and How to be a Family Man.
He also wrote ...