Fighter plane navigator Wallace Brownlowe survived three crashes to become a champion rose grower

By Alan Hardie
Updated October 23 2014 - 8:12pm, first published 8:08pm
BLOOMING MARVEL:  Champion rose grower Fred Brownlowe from Thornton.	Picture by CATH BOWEN
BLOOMING MARVEL: Champion rose grower Fred Brownlowe from Thornton. Picture by CATH BOWEN

At the age of 90 and having survived three aircraft crashes during the last war, Wallace Fred Brownlowe might have been expected to be enjoying a quiet hobby.

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