13 July 2014

Ronald Gow in Altrincham, Trafford

'RONALD GOW – DRAMATIST
LIVED HERE 1898–1910
PUPIL & MASTER AT
ALTRINCHAM COUNTY HIGH FOR BOYS.
1937, MARRIED ACTRESS
DAME WENDY HILLER'

Gow was born in Heaton Moor, Stockport, and is most noted for his stage adaptation of Walter Greenwood's novel Love on the Dole (1933), which he published a year later. Hiller (born in Bramhall, Stockport) acted in the play, and they lived in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, for many years. Both of them died there.

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