Writer

Chris Witts

Expert on the River Severn and it's history.

He sailed the Severn on barges for many years, and now writes widely on the subject.

www.severntales.co.uk

John Taylor - The Water Poet

The Water Poet pub - Eastgate St is named in his honour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_%28poet%29

The great actor - writer - director hails from Brockworth.

His oeuvre shows his roots as it displays a distinctly Brockworthian sense of humour, a form of wild, yet controlled subversion of traditional genres, in the same way that that other great Brockworth tradition - the Cheese Roll - takes displays of athletic prowess on the playing field and subverts it by making it an almost vertical descent, best undertaken on cider. All done with the straightest of possible faces.

http://www.peggster.net/ (I think this is a fan site, but seems great).