Born 1943 London. married & retired, lived in Hampshire most of my life, Liss, Alton & Southampton. Secondry School education, have had many jobs, but master of none, worked in hardware store, and managed a horticultral & W&S shop. Became a cyder salesman for 2 national companies, worked as a salesman for an independant brewer, was field salesman for 18 years, till I discovered that employers found that this commodity is expensive and hired merchandisers instead. Last employment was the Royal Mail Sorting Office at Southampton as a machinest for all sorts of mail, retired in 2008. Being retired is busy, doing family & local history research, gardening, cruising holidays, and looking at the stockmarket as the returns from banks& BS is rubbish.
50 years this year Hampshire County Council Education Department charted the MV Dunera for a 15 night cruise to the ports around Scandinavia and other Baltic Ports which included Stockholm, Leningrad, now St Petersburg, Helsinki, Copenhagen, via the Kiel Canal. … Continue reading →