Male Bonding
Portrait of an ex Ganges Boy, in his day, who told me later in life, ‘I’ve been a sailor and an airman in the military, I’ve been a copper - you get to know a man whose word is his bond. You’re one of those men and I trust you implicitly’. ‘Wooooo’ I retorted, ‘Had Yer hosses. I’m no male-bonder, rather a female bonder’. Graphite Pencil.
About the Artist
Michael Mcmanus
I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…
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