1950s and 1960s state education
2020)
A01=Neil Baldwin
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British Empire Medal
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Marvellous (stage adaptation
Marvellous (TV film)
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Staffordshire
Stoke City FC
the Potteries
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University of Keele
working-class childhood
Product details
- ISBN 9781789463408
- Weight: 214g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 2020
- Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Born with 'learning difficulties' and all but abandoned by his schools, Neil went on to become kit man to Stoke City FC. Lou Macari, the club's then manager, described him as 'my best-ever signing'. But who is Neil Baldwin? As a boy in a working-class part of the Potteries in the fifties and sixties, the education system wrote him off. But Neil, who believes you can just 'get things by asking for them', knows his late Mum wanted him to have a happy life, and it's his duty to her to have one. So he does. At Keele University, they hold regular celebrations and services for the decades he's been a friend to the students, academics and vice-chancellors; but he's never been a student, a teacher, or had any formal connection with the place. At Stoke City Football Club, he's 'more famous than the players'. He's even got a dialogue going with the Queen - though that one's still a little one-sided. This is the inspiring, moving and at times hysterically funny story of Neil Baldwin's marvellous life.
Neil 'Nello' Baldwin was born in 1946. He was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2019 New Year's Honours list.
