My friend Brian Lewis, who has died aged 88, was the founder in 1980 of Yorkshire Art Circus, a community publisher and arts organisation based in a converted school in Glasshoughton in West Yorkshire.
Until 1997 Brian was also its full-time coordinator, leading a team of writers and community “enablers” who encouraged ordinary Yorkshire folk to value their own experiences and to commit them to print. Many of its scores of books were collections of memories and photographs from various contributors, but others were by lone authors, such as The Bus to Barnsley Market by Ian Clayton (1989), On Earth to Make the Numbers Up by Evelyn Haythorne (1990) and Chapati and Chips by Almas Khan (1993).
