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He was the author of The Norwich Area (1971) in the British Landscapes through Maps series, Orkney (1971), part of the Islands series, and also of Teaching Geography (1974). In A Case for Geography (1987, co- edited with Tony Binns), a spirited advocacy of the subject was argued on behalf of the members of the Geographical Association.At the local level, in the flourishing Leicester Geographical Association, Bailey was indefatigable in his support for a wide range of activities, organising conferences for sixth- formers, giving frequent lectures and chairing sessions in his own inimitable style.He was a prolific writer of books, articles and reviews. He was editor of the very valuable Teaching Geography publication in the period 1974 to 1985. Later he was Principal Lecturer at Northumberland College of Education at Ponteland from 1964 to 1968, where he met and subsequently married Peggy, his lifetime companion.Bailey was a central figure in the activities of the Geographical Association, both nationally and locally for many years.

PATRICK BAILEY was one of Britain’s finest and foremost geographical educators. Over the years, he did much to promote Geography as a school subject and to enhance the teaching of the subject in schools. Born in 1925, after leaving school and spending time in the Royal Navy, Bailey studied Geography at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from 1947 to 1951 and subsequently at McGill University, Montreal. For much of his professional career, he taught at the School of Education, Leicester University, in the latter years combining this with undergraduate teaching in the Geography Department.
Before coming to Leicester in 1969, Bailey had taught in Norfolk. His first post was at Paston Grammar School, from where he moved on to become Head of Geography at Wymondham College.

He also wrote four books including Ain’t God Good (1977) and, more recently, Stories From Home (1993) and for 10 years running was named “Country Comic of the Year”.A devout man, Jerry Clower was a deacon of the First Baptist Church of Yazoo City and enjoyed a long-time association with the Gideon Bible Society. In 1997 the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame presented him with its Distinguished American Award. Yazoo City honoured the man who made it famous by renaming a local thoroughfare Jerry Clower Boulevard.Jerry Clower, comedian: born Liberty, Mississippi 28 September 1926: married 1947 Homerline Wells (one son, three daughters): died Jackson, Mississippi 24 August 1998.. Praise God, I won’t ever have to be anywhere that there ain’t no laughter.”Born in Liberty, Mississippi, close to the Louisiana border, Clower joined the US Navy on graduating from high school but found himself drawn increasingly to the world of farming. On leaving the navy, he enrolled at Junior College before heading to Mississippi State University on the back of a football scholarship. He graduated with a degree in agriculture and joined the Mississippi Chemical Company, based in Yazoo City, where he eventually rose to become Director of Field Sales.He began to develop a series of routines based on his early life, using them to enliven his sales patter and when these proved popular was persuaded to record them for the local Lemon label.

Entitled Jerry Clower from Yazoo City, Mississippi, Talkin’ (1971), the disc sold so well that Clower found himself signed to MCA. His albums for the label included Clower Power (1973), Country Ham (1974), The Ledbetter Olympics (1980), Dogs I Have Known (1982) and Top Gum (1987), which featured a rather bizarre country rap number.In 1973 he joined the cast of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, going on to become, with his gaudy suits and outgoing personality, a popular fixture on the television chatshow circuit. Many chronicled the comic misadventures of the fictional Marcel Ledbetter and his family, whilst others were laced with an overt and sometimes distasteful patriotism. “I am convinced,” he once declared, “that there is only one place where there is no laughter and that’s Hell I have made arrangements to miss Hell.

A memorable publicity shot, for example, shows him cradling a ‘coonhound under his right arm whilst balancing a chainsaw on his left knee.As with many comics, he loved the interaction a performer has with his audience and refused to use canned laughter on his albums, believing it to be dishonest. Although he always maintained that his shows were firmly family- oriented, his humour occasionally verged on the amusingly tasteless. Simple, direct and invariably drawing on the Southern character, it has been both light relief from the hardships endured by its core audience and a cultural barrier that outsiders have found difficult to surmount. FROM THE minstrel tradition of the black-face duo Jarnup and Honey in the 1930s through the “Golden Age” of Minnie Pearl and Rod Brasfield, to the current redneck humour of Jeff Foxworthy, comedy has long played an important, if underrated, role in the history of country music.