Painter and teacher, born in Bolton, Lancashire. He studied at the local College of Art, 1957–62, continuing his training at Sheffield College of Art. He later became a teacher in secondary education and from 1972 worked in the department of art at St Martin’s College of Higher Education, Lancaster. Haslam’s Hyper-Realist pictures examined aspects of urban decay, as in his Crashed Cortina, Wellington Road Garage, Lancaster, 1983, included in Lancashire South of the Sands, which toured from County and Regimental Museum, Preston, 1988.