Jane Royston was born and raised in Yorkshire, and has been a keen horse woman all her life.

She has competed in Eventing, Show Jumping and Dressage, and won the oldest Flat race in the country – The Kiplingcotes Derby.

Jane began working for Yorkshire Television in the late 1960’s on a television drama series called Tom Grattan’s War, helping the leading lady with her horse riding.

She then worked for four years as Horse Manager, on the award winning drama series Follyfoot.

Her own horse, Austrian Sky, was used in the series, as well as appearing on the book front cover reprint of Cobbler’s Dream.

Ray Knight was born and raised in Dorset, and became a massive fan of Follyfoot.

After the series ended, he managed to purchase all the videos of the entire series from Yorkshire Television.

In the the late 1970’s he met and interviewed Gillian Blake, Steve Hodson, Arthur English and Desmond Llewelyn, as well as visiting the film location.

One “out of the blue” telephone call to Jane Royston, led to the new book, Follyfoot Remembered being written.

Shown below are some photographs of Ray’s visit to Hollin Hall in 1979.