- FGS 1943 - 1948
- Left FGS in 1948 and joined Williams Deacons Bank in Bolton (now the Royal Bank of Scotland plc)
- At age 18 I joined the Royal Air Force to do my National Service. Served two years at the Royal Air Force Station in Bircham Newton, Norfolk. Played football for the Station 1st team and captained the Station 1st team at cricket. Did escort duty for the cortège of the late King George VI from Sandringham in 1952. Bircham Newton was the nearest military station to Sandringham.
- In 1954 I married Margaret Parker. Still happily married after 53 years. We have three children(two boys and one girl) and five grandchildren (two girls and three boys). Andrew, the youngest boy, now lives in the USA and is an American citizen. Fortunately all the five grandchildren live within a 25-mile radius of Bolton where we now live. Samantha, our eldest granddaughter, qualified as a dentist in 2006 and is now in practice in Didsbury, Manchester.
- After National Service I rejoined the Bank. I worked and managed various branches in the NW of England and in 1986 I was appointed Assistant General Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland with responsibilites for 90 branches in the NW of England, Merseyside and North Wales. During my time with the RBS I was President of the Wigan Centre of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, served on the Banks Committee and the British Bankers Association for Decimalisation. I was made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in 1971. Retired from the Bank in 1991
- My sporting life consisted of football with the Old Farnworthians, retiring from playing in 1957 and then refereeing until 1963. Played cricket in the Bolton League with Kearsley and then Farnworth. Played Table Tennis in the Farnworth League and the Manchester Banks and Insurance League.
- Hobbies now are football (season ticket holder at Bolton Wanderers with my youngest grandson;, the other two grandsons support Everton - well someone has to) golf at Bolton Golf Club, travel — frequent visitor to the USA — and cruising.
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