Mike Stovell
Mike Stovell was born to a poor but loving working-class family at the end of WW2 in the small town of Rugby in Warwickshire. Educated at three Victorian state schools, caned on a regular basis mainly for showing off to his classmates, he couldn’t wait to leave school at the age of 15. He has led an exceptional and varied working life: a fireman on steam engines, an overhead linesman on pioneering electrification of the railways, a lorry driver, a publican, a market trader, an art dealer, an...
