Wallace Briggs

Wallace Briggs (1943 – present). Happily married to Pat in September 1964, who I first met at the age of eleven, walking a common route homeward from different schools.

Early years were experienced in and around Durham never living more than 5ml from the Cathedral City. We wanted to marry at the age of eighteen but parental consent was denied, until we reached twenty-one, the age of majority in those days. Coming from different sects, Catholic and Protestant, there was much disapproval from family, friends and my Independent Methodist colleagues. Married in 1964, we spent many happy years in the North East of England before employment almost took us off to emigrate to South Africa with our two boys. But plans were changed in the final weeks and the company moved the family to Sussex. We celebrated our Diamond Anniversary in September 2024.

After more than twenty years in Sussex, suffering the trauma of redundancy from a job and a company I loved, we moved to Hampshire. Employment was again responsible for the relocation to beautiful rural Lancashire, where we still reside. I am now retired from a long career in sales and marketing of technical products in the UK and international markets.  

Jimmy Crikey was born one rainy day during a family holiday in Great Yarmouth, to entertain my son and his new-found friends for an hour or so. The story expanded over the following showery afternoons in the cramped confines of a beach tent, and more and more adventures were required to keep the children entertained. 

I look forward to sharing the adventures of Jimmy Crikey with a wider audience in the hope that they will bring a sense of wonder and enjoyment, plus some incidental moral leadership, to another generation.

Radioactive is the 6th stand alone adventure in the Series of The Adventures of Jimmy Crikey. In 2025 I hope to complete the series with a seventh adventure, after launching a psychological thriller, On the Edge, a departure from my usual genre.