WILL YOU SEND A DINGHY, PLEASE?

                                    Angus Hall (1932-2009) was born in Jesmond to Timber merchant Angus Henry Hall and Ann Calvert. He spent his teenage years visiting the local cinema and filling up notebooks with the films he had watched. His first job was as a reporter in the Scottish Borders at the Kelso Chronicle . He was paid £2 10s. a week, the travel to and from work costing £2 a week. He then worked for the Newcastle Evening Courier earning £7 10s. a week before his big break, working for the Mirror in Manchester. His last job was in Fleet Street, working as the film and theatre critic for the Daily Sketch . He then decided to quit journalism with an eye on Hollywood, noting that he was more intellectual and interesting than the people he was sent to interview. His first professional sale was Love in Smoky Regions (Constable, 1962) which was a considerable success and followed by The High-bouncing Lover and  The Come-Uppance of Arthur Hearne , a gypsy who marries a la