Lincolnshire, England
Greetings and welcome to my web site. I produced my own web page for the first time on Thursday 12th December 1996 and I seem to have been working on additions almost daily since then! Since then the site has received at least 18,000,000 hits, and at present has over 500,000 visits per month.
I am a retired Physics teacher, formerly Head of Computing at Charterhouse in Surrey, having taken early retirement in July 1996. My occupation is now as a self-employed Physics and Mathematics Tutor. See my Tuition page. I am an Examiner in Physics at A-level for Edexcel, and formerly at GCSE level for AQA.
I have three main hobbies: collecting coins (principally UK, Canadian and Roman); collecting stamps (principally Italy, Italian Colonies and GB); and a long-standing love of canals, which I and my family used to navigate in a 19-ft Dawncraft Dandy cabin cruiser called 'Linton', until we finally sold her in 2004. For some of our early adventures have a look at our BCN Trips pages.
My wife and I chose the name 'Linton' because we were married in Linton-in-Threshfield Parish Church in the Yorkshire Dales, and Linton Lock on the River Ouse, also in Yorkshire, is famous for its unusual history.
I have made a special study of the long derelict Shrewsbury and Newport Canals, and a selection of old photographs are available here.
My main sporting activity is rifle shooting, and for the past fourteen years I have had the honour of being the Chief Range Officer on Century Range, one of the largest in the world, for the National Rifle Association's Annual Imperial Meeting at Bisley. I am also Hon. Secretary of the British Schools Small-Bore Rifle Association, Vicechairman of the Old Malvernian Rifle Club, Member of The General Council of the National Rifle Association and, until my move to Lincolnshire in 2005, Captain of the Farncombe and Godalming Rifle Club. Since the move I have become a committee member of the Springfield (Ancaster) Rifle and Pistol Club.
I was selected to officiate as Chief Range Officer for the Full-Bore Target Rifle events in the 2002 Commonwealth Games, for the 2003 World Long-Range Target Rifle Championships (known as the Palma), and the 2004 and 2006 European Long-Range Target Rifle Championships, all held at Bisley.
The computer I use is an Acorn StrongArm RiscPC, which has not only its own operating system (RiscOS) but has a 586 co-processor so that I can use it as an IBM machine with Windows if I really want to. It will do this both in a fully dedicated mode, where the machine behaves exactly like a 586 IBM machine, or in dual mode with Windows in a standard Acorn window running at the same time as my usual Acorn programs.
I have created a number of web pages:
These pages are continually being updated as more information comes to hand.
A variety of links to my own and other users' pages which I have found to be of interest can be found on my Links Page.
