' There was plenty of hearsay evidence, the sort of family gossip a child half-hears. Then last year I came across his reminiscences, describing a person and an era a thousand times more fantastic than anything the family could Invent.'
Kenneth McLelsh traces the life history of his great-grandfather
Herbert Willlman. who started work when he was seven, became a boy preacher, emigrated to Canada and returned to fulfil his destiny in Watford. with Peter Tuddenham Producer GILLIAN BUSH BBC Manchester