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A little about myself .. well I am currently a full time carer for my poorly wife (nearly 7 years now) and before that I was an accountant for 18 years.

I was brought up (or dragged up!) in Bury, where my family moved to when I was six (I was born 'down south' but come from good Yorkshire stock, so a little mixed up).

I was a volunteer at the Heaton Park tramway for a few years and I currently own the lower saloon of a 1924 Lytham St Annes tramcar ... a project which stopped before it was started due to the start of my wifes ill health.

In 1997 I moved to Southport and married my wife.

My interests are trains, trams and buses. The buses thing come from me skiving from college during those mixed up days of deregulation, and because being a tram enthusiast is a bit limiting!

I am also a big fan of holiday camps (much maligned), and particularly the recently lost camp in Seaton, Devon. Don't get me started on Tesco's bid for world domination...

I am currently scanning any old family images I can get! I started with an old tin of photos that my dad leant me, the contents of which I had never seen until that point, so I assume must have come from his parents and been squirreled away until recently - hence loads of pictures from West Yorkshire.

So to follow that I did box from my dad of my generations images, I am youngest so many from before I was born. These cover more of the globe, but still end up back in the North of England! My mum keeps magic-ing up odd shots I have never seen, and I add these from time to time.

My latest set of images is from an album kept by my dad during his time in the navy and these are being added next.

I love spending hours creating new 'pools' or 'groups', usually very specific to geography or content as I find many groups on here very big - indeed too big to serve there original purpose.