Stan Cullimore
{{Short description|English musician, author and composer}}
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Ian Peter Cullimore is an English musician and journalist. He played guitar, between 1983 and 1988, for the Hull-based indie rock band The Housemartins.
Early life
He was born in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire. He moved to Birmingham, where he went to school at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, a state grammar school. He studied Maths at the University of Hull from 1980, graduating in 1984.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}
Career
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Cullimore responded to a local newspaper advertisement by The Housemartins singer Paul Heaton seeking musicians in 1983. Most of the band's songs were written by Heaton and Cullimore. After leaving the band, Cullimore ran a whole food shop for about five years.
=Journalism and writing=
Cullimore went on to become a journalist and the author of many children's books.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} He has written for publications such as the Hull Daily Mail and the Bristol Post.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}
He began working as a journalist in 2014 and wrote a column in a local Bristol paper.{{cite news|url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/column-stan-cullimore-s-diary-of-an-urban-grandad/story-29719494-detail/story.html|title=Urban Grandad|publisher=Bristol Post|date=2016-09-28|access-date=2016-09-28}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Alongside this he has been working with AuthorsAbroad,{{cite news|url=http://www.authorsabroad.com/author/stancullimore/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002114746/http://www.authorsabroad.com/author/stancullimore/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 October 2016|title=Authors Abroad|work=authorsabroad.com|date=2016-09-28|access-date=2016-09-28}} teaching young children creative writing and music.
References
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External links
- [http://www.stancullimore.com Cullimore's website]
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107153622/http://www.booksforkeeps.co.uk/issues/73/28293 Books for Keeps article]
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Category:Alumni of the University of Hull
Category:English rock guitarists
Category:English children's writers
Category:People educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys
Category:People from Stapleford, Cambridgeshire
Category:The Housemartins members
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