ABOUT US
Manor Farm on the South Downs, West Sussex was our Garden of Eden, where Peter Lockhart Dalglish and Alexander MacKenzie Dalglish shared a great love and knowledge of bird life. Charles had no interest in living things, only machinery.
Alexander MacKenzie Dalglish was born 1st June 1951 and during seven years working an 84 hour week at The King Edward VII Hospital as Night Porter, he produced a prolific portfolio of pen and inks and pastel portraits and landscapes. He spent 20 years restoring a derelict, isolated farmhouse and developing a bird haven in Lancashire. His mother lived with him from 1985 until his failed suicide attempt in 1997 when he became a tetraplegic and died 18th May 2001.
Sally Elizabeth Dalglish went to St. Mary’s
School, Calne and attended Bradford University where she edited
“Universification.” After teaching in a Yorkshire Grammar school she trained
with Majid Amini to restore oriental rugs. For fifteen years she lived with the
mystic, Leslie Field Marchant, father of Lady Wendy Bonington. For him she
painted the sequence of water colours now illustrating “The Water Garden.”
Charles Dalglish is passionate about flying. He has led a life packed with risk-taking, extreme adventure, breath-taking manoeuvres in business and in flight. His near escapes, liquidations, disasters, cancer, conflict with injustice only leave him resilient, “a fighter at every step.” Explosions
occur during his Sussex childhood and his public schooldays. There is
turbulence in Lancashire with Moorland Motors and his earliest planes and
helicopter. In Australia he expands on every facet of flying, under attack from
neighbours and the Council, but surrounded by an ever increasing wealth of
friends.