Early Life
Ecclestone was born in St Peter South Elmham, a small hamlet three miles south of Bungay, Suffolk. The son of a fisherman, he attended primary school in Wissett before the family moved to Bexleyheath, Kent, in 1938. Ecclestone left school at the age of 16 to work at the local gasworks, and to pursue his hobby of motorcycles.
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