In the year 1969 John was a soldier serviving with BAOR in Germany. In August of that year John’s Regiment flew oversesas to the country of Libya that at the time was ruled by King Idris. During the early days of September 1969 one Colonel Ghaddafi took over in a bloodless coup. That event led [...]

RON ELLIS Ron Ellis is based in Southport, Lancashire and he wears many hats, one of them being that of Poet.  I first met Ron in the year 1990 when I was working with the 60s Pop Singer P.J. Proby, Ron knew Jim Proby well and over the months of recording and writing songs for [...]

This poem was written by John for his grandson Aaron Nathanial Dowrick. In this video John reads the poem with his great-nephew Will Mark Fielding on his knee. Little Will was born on the 28th of January 2011, this video was filmed on Sunday 20th February 2011. The poem tells the story of an old [...]