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Donkey Dave was a real old-fashioned eccentric and an outspoken northern character. Philip Allott gives us a unique insight into the strange world of his fathers life and business.
The Book
Philip Allott was born in 1959 and brought up in the small market town of Knaresborough. His family life might well have been the same as any other young person's, except for one major difference - Philip's father was a donkeyman.
For nearly forty years David Allott, better known as Donkey Dave, bred, hired out, gave rides with and raced a troupe of super donkeys.
Donkey Dave was a real old-fashioned eccentric and an outspoken northern character. In this moving, and at times very gritty book, Philip gives us a unique insight into the strange world of his father's life and business.
It you are interested in animals, and northern humour with a sense of justice, or are merely in search of a good read, this gripping and often very frank and colourful account has been written just for you.
"A splendid evocation ...
Animal lovers and historians
alike will just adore it"
- MP Ann Widdecombe
Unique insights into the strange world of the
donkey business - from breeding to racing. A time capsule of a bygone era, with donkey rides
at sixpence a time and donkey derbies that raised thousands of pounds for charities
Appeals both to those who love animals, and to everybody with an interest in local history
Written by his eldest son Philip, Yorkshire businessman and youngest Mayor ofKnaresborough from 1985 to 1986