![]() At 6 feet 5 inches, Hargreaves was too tall for flight duties, and was assigned an office role in London. Hargreaves left school in 1953 to begin work in his father's laundry and dry-cleaning business but, after his national service call-up, was enlisted in the Royal Air Force (1955–7). A keen sense of humour was apparent from an early age, as was a talent for art (in later years he said his childhood ambition was to be a cartoonist). His childhood interests were cricket and reading. Hargreaves attended primary school in Goole (from 1940) and in 1947 became a pupil at Sowerby Bridge grammar school. Hargreaves, (Charles) Roger (1935–1988), copywriter and children's author, was born on at 201 Bath Road, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, the second of the four children of Alfred Reginald Hargreaves, then a woollen cloth manufacturer, and Ethel Mary, née Pickles the family home was High Lees, Halifax Road, Cleckheaton. ![]()
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