Robert D. Thomson
Robert Thomson was born in Gateshead.
During the Second World War, while his father served in the Army, his family moved to Corbridge, Northumberland. They moved back to Gateshead where Robert lived until he began his teaching career in London.
He now lives with his wife, Mary in the City of Durham. They have a married son and a granddaughter.
Now in his eightieth year he decided to write this story based around some of the changes he has seen in his lifetime.