Audrey Brettle

Educated at Halesowen Grammar School, she became a Salvation Army officer;^[1] before working for North Warwickshire Borough Council until her retirement.^[when?]

In retirement, she began to write actively, and was a founder of the North Warwickshire Writers Group. After her death in 2003, her ashes were interred in Greenhaven Woodland Burial Ground. A collection of her writings was published posthumously, under the title The Clydebank Whistle.^[2]