Aged about 13, hauled out of class to work the school Bell & Howell 16 mm cine projector because the teachers didn't know how to work it! Joined the local tape recording club. Started an electrician apprenticeship at 14. Purchased my first 8mm cine camera and developed a way of recording the sound and adding it to the finished film.

Founder member of Guy's Hospital Radio Station at around 18 as station engineer. Joined the British Sub-Aqua Club, qualified as Senior Branch Diver, and developed an interest in World War One and Two shipwreck history while diving on the actual wrecks (an aquatic Indiana Jones?). I started my own electronic security company in London. I sold that and escaped from London, and moved to Plymouth to run scuba diving boat trips. Qualified as a Breathing Gas Mixer. Qualified as a first aid trainer and started a Medic First Aid Training Branch in Plymouth. Continued as an independent film maker, producing various films as Plymouth Diverse Productions. Founder member and a director of the national Professional Boatmen's Association, involved in forming the new M.C.A. National Boat Safety Code of Practice.

During winters when recreational diving wasn't practical I toured and studied WW1 & 2 history & battle sites including Oradour-sur-Glane. After some 40 odd years as a salty sea dog I took to the calm of our inland waterways. Canal dwelling people being wary of the media shunned them, but being a canal cruiser myself I was trusted. This allowed me to make “The Canal People”, an in-depth series of 3 films about life of people on the canals. These and other films of mine are now showing on Amazon Prime Video. Search: Prime Video The Canal People Part One. Search: Prime Video The Canal People Part Two. Search: Prime Video The Canal People Part Three. Search: Prime Video Paul Dunbars Cornwall. Search: Prime Video Richard Trevithicks Puffing Devil.