Mervyn  Rolfe (c1936 – 2022)

Mervyn (Mel) Rolfe lived most of his life in rural England, including twenty years in Buckinghamshire.

 In the RAF for two years’ National Service,  he learned to type and flew a typewriter among the Vampires at Station Sick Quarters, at the former RAF Swinderby.

He became came a journalist in 1959 for newspapers in East London.

He also worked in Fleet Street for some years before thinking it would be a good idea to buy a small hotel in Falmouth.  When the sitcom Fawlty Towers appeared on our screens, he thought it was based on his hotel. He learned later in was based on one in Torquay.

But it was bad idea and he hastily returned to journalism and the work he loves.

He moved to Grantham where he met and married Jessie, a local schoolteacher.

He worked for the Grantham Journal for nearly 15 years as a feature writer.

During this time he had several books published about the RAF including, Looking into Hell, To Hell and Back and Hell on Earth.

He made his home at Little Humby,