Description: Metreman is a personal website created by writer David Edwards Hulme ranging from archery humour to poetry and life stories.
Welcome to my website. As a writer, occasional poet and life-long archer, I thought it was about time that I put all my work in one place. It is a modest amount, admittedly, but I would like to share it with you, and I hope that you enjoy it. You will find several poetry collections, two of them for children, one of which is still being developed, and pieces covering archery humour and the history of my own archery club and its Victorian predecessor, plus other writing. I have also included the story of my
The search for my American father also led me to the surprising discovery that I’m descended from two Mayflower passengers through my Edwards family in the USA. For a working-class British boy born in a two-up-and-two-down in a Stockport backstreet, that is a surprising pedigree – but it just happens to be true (see the Life Stories section.) The extensive research into my family history, starting in the USA and then here in the UK where I live, led to the discovery of my maternal great grandfather’s death
Archery “The Bowmen of Bruntwood was formed in 1950 by Trevor Francis…..He’d been a glider pilot in the Second World War, and a resulting back injury meant he couldn’t play contact sports like rugby. So archery it was.”
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