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The Cars (and two scooters)
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Car stuff
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Inside my shorts
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The Open University
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CV(Resume)
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Interests
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Projects
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My Top 100
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Camcorder stills
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Email me
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I was born in the North Middlesex Hospital, London on 3rd April 1948. I have
an older sister and no brothers. I don't remember living in rented
rooms in Langham Road, Turnpike Lane. My father told
me that at that time his job involved climbing inside huge boiler
tanks and cleaning them. My earliest true memory is at age about 7, by which
time we lived almost opposite that rented house, at number 234. Its that house in
the picture on the left. I took this picture from my camcorder tapes, and there are more pictures
from North London on the
camcorder pages. The front door led
into a small hallway, and the house was in two halves, each with their own
door into the shared hall.
I remember (clearly) that I had a light blue
three wheel tricycle ( it had a small compartment at the back to carry things
in), and I used to fly around at break neck speed in it. Below are a few more
frames from Turnpike Lane.
Home is now Reading, Berks and has been since I met my wife.
When I worked as a TV engineer we were newly married and rented a
flat above the TV shop (in Caversham, Reading). We later moved into
our first house (pic on the left) in Tilehurst, Reading, and moved
into our current home ( just around the corner from our last), in 1993.
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I went to school at Belmont Primary, then Belmont Juniors and finally
Downhills Central, leaving with no qualifications. After a spell as
a car mechanic, scooter mechanic and Dental equipment mechanic, I joined the Army.
After almost five years I left the Army trained for a year as a TV engineer,
spent some time as a DeeJay, and finally became a TV engineer.Seven years
later I moved into the Computer Industry where I remained for almost twenty years.
I followed my father's footsteps travelling extensively in Europe and North America.
Now I work as a hardware and software designer and in 2005 completed an OU degree
course over five years to achieve a 2:1 BSc Hons degree. During the course of my life
my parents moved to High Wycombe (it was when I joined the Army), but I managed to
find them again, and my father rose from cleaning boilers to become the Export Manager
of a Dental Company, travelling all over Europe and the Middle East.
He had a gift for languages, reading ten and speaking seven.
I married in 1975 and have two sons, two grand-daughters and one grand-son.
After five years its all over.I learnt far
more than I expected and now that evenings
and week-ends belong to me again, I am lost
as to what to do with them.
On the right, Santana, Wembley, 13th May 2006.
Why oh why did he not play 'Samba Pa Ti' ?
But then he did play 'Black Magic Woman'...
OK, its a bad picture but it was taken by
my phone (and the 70's are a bit blurred anyway).
This web site is best viewed in 1024 X 768.
I am testing the site with Netscape 7.0 Explorer 6 and Firefox which work fine,
but your browser may throw up the odd wobbly! Especially, it may grumble about blocked
features because my pages use JavaScript code, but its okay to enable (allow),
otherwise you will not be able to use all the site features.
If you want to check out Tilehurst,try these links :
Tilehurst history - lots of info and maps
Best pubs around Tilehurst
My writing, short stories and novels
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