Great Western Books

Mysteries of the Ladybank Woods

by C Richard Toye

Born in Plymouth Charles Toye did a shipwright apprenticeship in Devonport and Rosyth Dockyards. He was in numerous managerial posts for the Ministry of Defence, one of which included a tour of duty in Gibraltar. He studied at Strathclyde University and gained a First Class Honours degree in Naval Architecture. After two years as a marine surveyor for the Board of Trade at Belfast he returned to the MOD as a Naval Constructor at Rosyth Dockyard with duty at Swan Hunters Newcastle and finally at Rosyth Dockyard. Previously published: Sandy:  the true story of a boy and his friends growing up in Cornwall in the late 1800s.