Howard Spring in Didsbury

26 Hesketh Avenue, Didsbury, Manchester.

 

'ROBERT HOWARD SPRING

(1889–1965)

JOURNALIST AND NOVELIST

LIVED HERE

(1920–1931)'

 

Spring was working for the Manchester Guardian when he lived here, and his editor was C. P. Scott. In 1931 he accepted a post as book reviewer for the Evening Standard in London. His first novel, Shabby Tiger (1934), was set in Manchester.