A 65-year-old Chesterfield man has spent the last quarter of a century working tirelessly to improve the lives of some of South America’s poorest people. Nick Roberts details the remarkable life and work of his friend ‘Bishop Bill’.
HAROLD WILLIAM ‘BILL’ GODFREY was born in April 1948 in Chesterfield. The family lived in Yew Tree Drive during his early years but moved to Highfield Road when Bill was a toddler. Bill went to Highfields Junior School and then on to Chesterfield Grammar School. He excelled at several sports – hockey in particular – and went on to play for Derbyshire, Midlands and England Schoolboys and later, to the adult Derbyshire and Midlands team…