Researching Peter Walker

[Toni Vines]

Hello to all!
Can anyone help me please? I'm researching a racing driver named Peter Walker. He drove an ERA in hillclimb events in the late forties progressing to circuit racing. He then drove a BRM in the early fifties before moving on to Jaguar (winning the 1951 Le Mans 24 hour) and later an Aston Martin.
Any info, pictures etc would be wonderful. Also any pointers as to people I should contact will be most welcome.
Thanks,

Toni Vines.

[FAL]

A number of books covering other people in the 50s mention Peter Walker. I'm trying to recall which one it was that said he ended up living as a "street person" after losing all his money racing.
Which books on 50s drivers have you already consulted? It might help me remember others to point you to. I always get Peter Walker confused with Peter Whitehead.

[FAL]

Tony Brooks' autobiography "Poetry in Motion" mentions Peter Walker quite a lot during his time at Aston Martin. Not much of a personal nature, other than that Walker was 6ft 2in tall (the context being getting out of the back of a DB2/4 quickly) and was a farmer.

[D-Type]

I found this information on another forum:
Born 7 December 1912, He grew up in Yorkshire and after the war, he farmed in Suffolk or possibly Norfolk. He and his wife Patsy started rearing chickens and this was the main business. Unfortunately, a lot of the drivers of that era were heavy drinkers and Peter was one. They then moved to Worcestershire/Herefordshire but the marriage broke up. Patsy remarried a Colonel Corbett and went to live at Shobdon Court in Herefordshire and took the chicken business with her. This became Sun Valley Chickens and was sold to an American company for a great deal of money. Peter however continued to farm in Worcestershire but the drink got to him in the end some have said that he had gone through his money when he died on 1 March 1984. Despite what some people have written, he was not a down and out living on the street. He had two children, Angela and Tim, who live in Herefordshire. His grandaughter Joanna went out with the noted amateur driver Gregor Fisken for some time.
He raced at Brooklands prewar then graduated to an ERA which he raced before and after the war. He was known as 'Skid' Walker because of the lurid way he cornered his ERA - probably simply a form of four wheel drift.