ABOUT ME
Pictured left myself, stepdaughter Clare and wife Helen
A Baby Boomer I was born at 103 Ridge Hill Lane, Stalybridge, Cheshire then a typical cotton town on the banks of the River Tame and Huddersfield canal and attended St Pauls junior school, West Hill Boys secondary school and Hyde County Grammar School. I had been a choir boy,played in Brass Bands and school orchestra. Our neighborhood gang were mostly Teddy boys and I had long hair and leather jacket before my first job as a post boy at the CWS Balloon St. Manchester before being transferred to the Central Catering Dpt. Thus I was introduced to the licenced and catering trades and also worked evenings as anight club doorman and later became the manager of Stalubridge Celtic Football Club Social Club. Gaining more experience I joined NAAFI and after training moved to RAF Bruggen, West Germany, European Service where I suffered horrendous injuries in a road traffic accident. Back to Blighty. After recovering back home I became a Berni Inns assistant manager in venues arround the country and then became a general manager with MECCA Liesure at no less than ten clubs throughout the northwest and midlands with a scar from each one. Subsequently I had a grand array of jobs including a butler at a Manchester hotel and I can tell you thaqt it was not what the butler saw it was what the butler heard. My younger brother died suddenly in 1985 andf my mother died two years later prompting me to travel and see more of the world. By 1999 I had visited all 50 US States whilst living in Southport where I had been a caretaker, lifeguard and chairman of Southport Charity Carnival. I am now happily married and live in Manchester with wife Helen.
A Baby Boomer I was born at 103 Ridge Hill Lane, Stalybridge, Cheshire then a typical cotton town on the banks of the River Tame and Huddersfield canal and attended St Pauls junior school, West Hill Boys secondary school and Hyde County Grammar School. I had been a choir boy,played in Brass Bands and school orchestra. Our neighborhood gang were mostly Teddy boys and I had long hair and leather jacket before my first job as a post boy at the CWS Balloon St. Manchester before being transferred to the Central Catering Dpt. Thus I was introduced to the licenced and catering trades and also worked evenings as anight club doorman and later became the manager of Stalubridge Celtic Football Club Social Club. Gaining more experience I joined NAAFI and after training moved to RAF Bruggen, West Germany, European Service where I suffered horrendous injuries in a road traffic accident. Back to Blighty. After recovering back home I became a Berni Inns assistant manager in venues arround the country and then became a general manager with MECCA Liesure at no less than ten clubs throughout the northwest and midlands with a scar from each one. Subsequently I had a grand array of jobs including a butler at a Manchester hotel and I can tell you thaqt it was not what the butler saw it was what the butler heard. My younger brother died suddenly in 1985 andf my mother died two years later prompting me to travel and see more of the world. By 1999 I had visited all 50 US States whilst living in Southport where I had been a caretaker, lifeguard and chairman of Southport Charity Carnival. I am now happily married and live in Manchester with wife Helen.