Hello. I am a fairly new Wikipedian. I signed up on 27th May 2007. I am married and live in Whitley Bay, on the north-east coast of England. I was born in 1946 and retired in September 2006, after a career in I.T. I like reading (fiction and non-fiction) and have a keen interest in local history. My one regret is that it has taken me so long to discover the joys of being a Wikipedian.

I have started the following articles:

• Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne (DYK article on 30 Jun 2007)
• Keelmen
• Robert Chambers (oarsman)
• James Renforth (Tyneside oarsman)
• Shipley Art Gallery (in Gateshead)
• Battle of Alnwick (1174) (capture of William I of Scotland)
• Battle of Alnwick (1093) (Malcolm III of Scotland killed)
• Clemence Dane (writer and playwright)
• John Fowler (agricultural engineer) (DYK article on 2 Nov 2007)
• SS British Queen (Victorian transatlantic steamship)
• Holtzapffel (Company making ornamental lathes)
• Thomas Mudge (horologist) (invented the lever escapement)
• John and Benjamin Green (North East architects)
• Dick Richardson (boxer) (Welsh boxer of the fifties and sixties)
• Maurice Cullen (boxer) (British lightweight champion from County Durham)
• List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions
• National Sporting Club ( original ruling body for boxing in G.B.)
• Jack London (boxer) (father of Brian London)
• List of British middleweight boxing champions
• Dick Turpin (boxer) (British middleweight champion & Randolph's brother)
• Chic Calderwood (Scottish light-heavyweight boxer)
• List of British welterweight boxing champions
• Brian Curvis (Welsh welterweight boxer)
• List of British lightweight boxing champions
• Jonathan Thaxton (British lightweight champion)
• List of British featherweight boxing champions
• Nel Tarleton (three-times British featherweight champion]]
• List of British bantamweight boxing champions
• List of British flyweight boxing champions
• Condercum (Roman fort at Benwell)
• Vindobala (Roman fort at Rudchester)
• Hunnum (Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall)
• Aesica (Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall)
• Camboglanna (Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall)
• Petriana (Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall)
• Rudge Cup (Roman cup listing forts on Hadrian's Wall)
• Battle of Linlithgow Bridge (battle fought in Scotland in 1526)

I have also made significant contributions to the following articles:

• History of Newcastle upon Tyne
• North Shields (town at mouth of River Tyne)
• Richard Grainger (re-developed Victorian Newcastle upon Tyne)
• John Dobson (architect) (nineteenth-century North East architect)
• John Clayton (Newcastle) (town clerk in Newcastle upon Tyne)
• Thomas Oliver (architect) (nineteenth-century North East architect)
• George Stephenson (railway builder)
• Robert Stephenson (locomotive designer and railway builder)
• William George Armstrong (Tyneside armaments manufacturer)
• George Wightwick Rendel (engineer and ship designer)
• Joseph Locke (railway builder)
• Seaton Sluice (seaside village in Northumberland)
• Prudhoe Castle (Tyneside castle)
• Harry Clasper (Tyneside oarsman and boat designer)
• Newcastle Castle Keep
• Blackfriars, Newcastle (Dominican friary in Newcastle)
• Norham Castle (castle in north Northumberland)
• Newcastle town wall
• Tynemouth Castle and Priory
• Battle of Hedgeley Moor (battle of the Wars of the Roses)
• Hughie Gallacher (legendary Tyneside footballer)
• Battle of Heavenfield (Northumbrian army defeated Welsh army)
• William Jessop (civil engineer and canal builder)
• Abraham Darby I (inventor of iron smelting with coke as fuel)
• Joseph Bramah (locksmith and inventor)
• Matthew Murray (steam pioneer and inventor)
• Lewis Casson (actor, theatre director, husband of Sybil Thorndike)
• Henry Maudslay (engineer and inventor)
• Frederick W. Lanchester (automotive and aeronautics inventor)
• Harry Ricardo (engine designer)
• RMS Britannia (first Cunard ocean liner)
• Collins Line (U.S. steamship company - competitor of Cunard Line)
• Dionysius Lardner (Scientific writer who clashed with Brunel)
• Marc Isambard Brunel (builder of the Thames Tunnel)
• John Connelly (Burnley and England footballer)
• William Walcher (murdered Norman bishop of Durham)
• Robert de Mowbray (Norman earl of Northumbria under William II)
• Uchtred the Bold (Earl of Northumbria (1006-1016))
• Osulf II of Northumbria (Earl of Northumbria, briefly in 1067)
• Joe Erskine (Welsh boxer)
• Brian London (English heavyweight boxer)
• William Thomas Wells (boxer Bombardier Billy Wells)
• Lonsdale Belt (history of the boxing trophy)
• Blackgate (Newcastle's castle barbican)
• Don Cockell (English boxer who fought Rocky Marciano)
• Jack Petersen (Welsh heavyweight boxer of 1930s)
• Freddie Mills (English light-heavyweight boxer)
• Terry Marsh (boxer) (light-welterweight world champion)
• Albert Finch (British middleweight and light-heavyweight boxer)
• Walter McGowan (Scottish flyweight boxer)
• Howard Winstone (Welsh featherweight boxer)
• Billy Hardy (boxer from Sunderland)
• Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria
• Segedunum (Roman fort in Wallsend)
• Stanegate (Roman road from Corbridge to Carlisle)

To see a full list of my contributions click here.

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