My husband, Eric Birchall, who has died aged 80, spent much of his life working in adult education before switching to run a design business that allowed him to use the full range of his artistic talents.
Eric was born in Wigan to Doris (nee Martlew), who worked in a cotton mill, and her husband, Ernest Birchall, a lorry driver. At the age of five Eric was selling flowers and vegetables from a wheelbarrow. Five years later some local communists persuaded him to hand out leaflets in the street – until his parents found out.
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