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John was born the son of a miner in Upton, West Yorkshire. He trained as a teacher of drama at Bretton Hall College. Whilst he was Head of Drama at Minsthorpe High School, the school he attended as a student, he won every major award at the National Student Drama Festival between 1981 and 1983.
May 11, 2005 · Born in 1956, in Upton, West Yorkshire, the son and grandson of miners. Trained as a drama teacher at Bretton Hall College. Became head of drama at Minsthorpe High School, where he had been a...
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John Godber was born on 18 May 1956 in Upton, West Yorkshire, the son of a miner and an English dramatist. He attended Minsthorpe High School, South Elmsall, and went on to undertake teacher training at Bretton Hall College, West Bretton. He is married to writer and actress Jane Thornton (aka Jane Clifford and Jane Godber) with whom he has two chil...
The collection can be used to study the creative art of writing for a range of mediums including stage and television.
The collection (ref U DJG) contains notebooks, scripts, accounts, contracts and agreements, correspondence, production records, reviews and interviews, publicity material, programmes, photographs, audio-visual material, papers of Jane Thornton, and various miscellaneous records. The majority of the papers consist of a series of writer's and directo...
The collection is available for anyone to use. Due to the personal and sensitive nature of some of the material certain closures have been placed on parts of this collection, and these are clearly identified in the catalogue.
Access to unrestricted material will be granted to any accredited reader. However, access to some of the material in this collection is restricted under the terms of data protection legislation. For any enquiries relating to research access, please contactthe University Archives team.
Jan 21, 2024 · Rees and Ablett were well acquainted with each other being among the first group of students from Rhondda sent to Ruskin College, Oxford by the valleys miners' associations. They lodged and studied together.
- Phil Rowlands
Deep mining began in the 1800s across Britain and happened in the 1850s in Waleswood and in 1866-67 in Kiveton Park. The records of both the sinkings are available to the public, in Sheffield Archives for Kiveton Park (see the links on our Archive Page).
Norman was born on the 18th of November 1919 in the small town of Spennymoor. At the age of just 14 Norman left school and began work as a coal miner. From a young age Norman had always been passionate about drawing and painting and he soon became aware of the sketching club.
Schooling did not become compulsory for children aged five to ten until 1880. In 1889, the school leaving age was raised to twelve, and in 1891, the school's fee was abolished and schools became free.
