Hi! I hope you have enjoyed looking at my website! My name is Richard and I am a retired Civil Servant, having
trained and worked as a Cartographic Draughtsman with the Ordnance
Survey the UK Government Mapping Department, and was there for 22 years.
Most of my time was spent on large scale mapping at 1:2500 and 1:1250 scale,
firstly in conventional (scribing detail on coated plastic sheets) then on
digital mapping. Interspersed with these were periods in Areas Measuring,
(on 1:2500 scale land acreage/hectares is measured and marked in "parcels")
Boundaries and Quality Control. Took medical retirement in 1993.
Now I split my time between being a house-husband,
church and community work - not necessarily in that order!!
Until May 2004 I was involved with Portsmouth Savers Credit Union as a Founder Director.
1963-70: Educated at Moseley Hall Grammar School in Cheadle, Cheshire, which lay under the approach to
Manchester
Airport! Somehow we managed to gain an education in between the distraction of planes passing over!
Suffice to say, it was here that my interest in aviation began! The school later amalgamated with and moved up to the
girls Grammar school up the road. The boys school was demolished and the Village Hotel is now on the site.
There was a website with historical info and reunions, but it has since sadly disappeared from the net.
Married 1989 to Sandra and have
three step-children.
Emily, married to Adam, used to have sundry
pets - snakes, tarantulas, 2 cats & lizards, but now just have two lttle boys and two cats!
Both were active in our church as youth leaders but a young family means they just do what they can to help. Adam also likes aircraft, motorbikes
and takes lots of photos.
Martin, now married to Hannah, was in Bolivia for 6 months during summer 2002 on a "Step Team"(Team 1) placement with Latin Link, a Christian organisation.
He has had 2 months in El Alto shanty town, a part of La Paz, helping to re-build a church. After 2 months they were in Santa Cruz working with an orphanage. Then in Sucre with a different team on another 2 month project with a Bible School for national Bolivians.
He is mainly interested in mountain biking and music, but was also helping at the teenage youth club before leaving for Bolivia.
Trained at an Outdoor Activity Centre in the Midlands to be an Instructor, and where he met Hannah. They are studying at Mattersey Bible College for future ministry, wherever God leads!
James, "Bungle Bear", married to Lisa, in May 2007 - he is an Aston Villa football fan,
also interested in guitar, music, soccer and NFL. They are both involved in the teenage youth ministry here in Paulsgrove.
Sandra and I are committed Christians
and are members at Paulsgrove Baptist Church in
Portsmouth and used to be actively involved with
the 7 to 11s club where many of the children come from deprived backgrounds and multi-parent/partnered families.
Now we help with other Community work - a craft club, computer courses and a Community cafe which the church set up at the local Healthy Living Centre.
Our interests include (not necessarily both of us!) crafts, family history, reading, archaeology and history, swimming, computers.
From early 1998 we were also
involved with the setting up of Portsmouth
Savers Credit Union in the city.
It was granted Registration in December 2000 and has been open for business since
early January 2001.
However we now concentrate on the church as the church's community work has expanded and grown.
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