Sports Historian Gerry Wolstenholme Writes First Book

Born in Blackpool, Gerry Wolstenholme is an author and sports historian from Blackpool who wrote about football and cricket. He penned his first book in 1992 and became a strong supporter of Blackpool F.C. He attended Northlands school between the ages of three and five, and then Devonshire Road School in Blackpool and Baines Grammar School in Poulton-le-Fylde. He saw an advertisement for Civil Service examinations and decided to take them. He passed, and moved to London to begin working at Her Majesty’s Treasury in Whitehall. He was promoted, and worked in the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

He produced The Cheltenham Spectator and Festival News, a daily summary of the Cheltenham Cricket Festival, for six years. He also published his own The Cricket Postcard Collectors’ Journal, which ran for 24 issues. He contributed regularly to Blackpool F.C.’s matchday programmes. Wolstenholme married Linda in 1968. Four years later, they returned to Blackpool, where he worked for the Department of National Savings. He also ran a second-hand and antiquarian bookstore on Elizabeth Street. He wrote his first book during this time, The West Indian Tour of England, 1906. He became a widower upon his wife’s death in 2004 and wrote The Lost-Love Poems of a Madman, a book of poetry, as a result of it and his subsequent breakdown.

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