Born 1937, he attended Burnley Road School, Hebden Bridge Grammar and then Calder High. In 1941 was living at Erringden Road, Mytholmroyd, he married and later lived at Bacup.
Evelyn, nee Casrling, lived in a cottage called Goosegate, situated near Callis Wood. As a teenager she married Ernest Greenwood, in the late 1930s, and they went to live in Walsden. She had a sister Ada Alderson who lived in Garnet Street.