The Author

MIKE CASEY was born in August 1948 and for the first five years of his life lived in Collyhurst, where he briefly attended St Malachy’s school. In 1953, his family moved to Wythenshawe and he attended St Aidan’s Primary School in Northern Moor. Following the Eleven Plus examination in 1959, Mike began studying at St Gregory’s Technical High School where he remained until after his A-Levels in 1966. Between 1966 and 1969 he studied at Leicester University and obtained a B.A. Honours Degree in Economic History before undertaking a one-year course of study for a PGCE at Christ’s College, Liverpool.

Mike returned to St Gregory’s in 1970 to teach history and remained there until Catholic reorganisation in 1977, when he was appointed to St Matthew’s High School in Blackley. He spent many happy years teaching there until his retirement. A keen golfer, Mike enjoys spending time with his grown-up children and grandchildren.