Start At The Back

Start at the Back highlights the author's motto 'doing my best' which has obviously been followed throughout.

From a modest beginning in Thornton Heath, Surrey, in 1925, the author started work as a newspaper boy.

Two years later the Air Training Corps in Norbury beckoned and in 1943 he joined the Royal Air Force. Amusing and serious anecdotes abound in the service, 'the bucket full of scalding tea which swung between his legs depended upon careful driving by the wartime WAAF who said "I'll drive carefully to preserve your future"'.

Upon return to civilian life in 1947, he worked for the last Superintendent of the Line, of the Great Western Railway at Paddington. Upon marriage to Mary he moved to appointments in the Electricity Industry and, until his retirement, Southwark Council.

In 1985, he departed to Ross-on-Wye and, for 10 years acting, until illness, as Company Secretary to Wye Valley Railway Limited, attempting to renew the lines as described in his book Wye Valley Railway Story Part 1.

He continued his transport interests by modelling and as author of My Miniature World.