A young man who, eight years ago, was a member of the school dramatic society at Ashlyn’s, Berkhamsted, today stands on the threshold of what promises to be an outstanding career in the professional theatre.
“I know I have chosen a very precarious profession,” says 23-year-old Derek Fowlds of Ellesmere Road, Berkhamsted, “but I consider myself lucky in being able to do what I have always wanted to do. In these days, so many people go through life in jobs they do not like. I’ve got the most wonderful job in the world – and I know it.”
[From the Watford Observer of December 16, 1960]
NOSTALGIA NOTE: Derek Fowlds, now aged 77, became well-known to children in the late 60s and early 70s as “Mr Derek” in TV’s The Basil Brush Show. These days, he’s most fondly remembered as Bernard Woolley in popular British television comedies Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and Oscar Blaketon in the long-running ITV police drama Heartbeat.
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