He lectured at Kirkley Hall Agricultural College.Drawing on his background in this semi industrial town his early poetry reflects on the town and his family and is evocative of the period (1970s) and the place.
Kirkley Hall is a 17th-century historic country mansion and Grade II listed building situated on the bank of the River Blyth at Kirkley, near Ponteland in the heart of the Northumberland countryside, which is now an Horticultural and Agricultural training centre.
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In 1999 the estate became the land studies campus of Northumberland College.
It has a main campus in Ashington in the south east of the county and additional centres at Kirkley Hall, Hexham and Berwick.
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Kirkley Hall is a 17th-century historic country mansion and Grade II listed building situated on the bank of the River Blyth, which is now a Horticultural and Agricultural training centre.