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Peter was born in Colchester in 1936 and went to Colchester Grammar School which he left at fifteen. His first job working in a factory was the stimulus for his book, ‘Smallcreep’s Day’, a book published in 1965 by Peter while working in a Gloucestershire factory. Its success enabled him give up factory work and realise his dream of setting up a craft pottery in rural Gloucestershire. In 1960, Brown was one of a small group who sat down and blocked the entrance of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Foulness. He was sentenced to six months in jail when he refused to agree not to repeat the action. In the following year he was one of the "Eskimo Navy" which boarded Polaris submarines in kayaks, resisting the establishment of the base at Holy Loch. He was a member of the Committee of 100 founded by Bertrand Russell to organise mass non-violent resistance to nuclear war. He worked at various jobs locally, including Lister’s factory, Dursley and Peter Scott’s Wildfowl Trust in Slimbridge. In 1966 he et up a craft pottery he called The Snake Pottery in Cam. He later gave up employed work to concentrate on the pottery.
