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Island Life - December 2010

Norman
relishes
the Super
challenge
Isle of Wight police
commander Superintendent
Norman Mellors at Newport
Police Station

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
By Peter White
After a winning a bronze medal in

While Norman Mellors was sitting

52 years ago, one of two sons of a

behind his desk in a London branch of

father who worked in a textile factory

the national championships as a 15

a major High Street bank, it dawned on

and a mother who worked for Birds

year old and Lincolnshire County titles

him that his work was not the type of

Eye Foods. With such strong fishing

on road and track as a 19 year old Mr.

challenge he was looking for in life.

connections in that area, he fondly

Mellors has recently returned to racing

recalls: “My great uncle Jack was one

in the ranks of veterans. Because of

embarked on the first steps of a journey

of the old fashioned trawler skippers;

24 per cent unemployment in Grimsby

that was to ultimately lead him to his

my granddad was in the merchant navy,

when he was 16, further education

position of Superintendant Norman

and was on trawlers, and my dad’s

seemed the natural option. He attended

Mellors, Hampshire Constabulary’s

brother was also on a trawler.”

school and sixth form in Grimsby, and

So at the age of 25 Mr. Mellors

Commanding Officer on the Isle of
Wight.

But trawling was not for him – and

then to the City of London Polytechnic

indeed as a youngster neither was the

to study economics before getting a job
with the Midland Bank.

Supt. Mellors took up his post on