Remember the Constable?

<p>Ken Pickles was born in 1939 at Riddlesden. He attended a local school reluctantly intermittently. He was a born naturalist and spent his time in the countryside. During the war he lived for a time in Scotland.<br />He became a gamekeeper a highland soldier and a piper. He joined the police force in 1961. He has had two books on bees one on poetry<br />and a number of short stories published; two poems selected by General Lord Richard Dannatt and the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy published in a book called Heroes. He is married with one daughter and two grandchildren.  Ken continues to play the pipes paint in oils and write.<br />He is descended from Irish Scottish and Yorkshire stock and says if he was a terrier with that pedigree he might be a winner at Crufts Dog Show!</p>