Links page

Ongoing activities

• My Island Software web site deals with my software inventions
• My AllExperts page on folk music
• My Family Tree Research page
• My publications in the fields of photography, songs, poems, articles and stories
• My cars over the years

Historical connections

• Harborne where I grew up
• I was active in the Birmingham SF Group in the mid 1960's (picture courtesy of Darroll Pardoe)
• I joined the Birmingham University Transport Society in the late 1960's (front left with camera; picture courtesy of the Sunday Mercury)
• I'm proud to have worked with Charles Parker in the Grey Cock Folk Club, the Birmingham and Midland Folk Centre and elsewhere
• I was a member of Kings Norton Motor Cycle Club (web site missing!) in the mid 1970's and was in the ACU recovery van team at the TT in 1973/4/5
• I was an amateur member of Banner Theatre from its founding in 1974 to 1979
• Donal Maguire's album 'The Star of Sunday's Well' that I recorded and mixed in 1978, became a best-seller in 1979 and has just been reissued on CD
• Following Mike Hailwood with my Bronica after the garlanding ceremony, Formula 1 TT, 1978 (clip from 'One Day In June')
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Family links

• Our Beautiful Baboon Pottery web site
• My brother Chris's Porsche business
• My sister, Dr Mary Hamer in print.
• My brother-in-law Nick Cumpsty is highly respected in the field of jet propulsion
• my late aunt Kathleen Harrington and her brother John Joe Gardiner were well-respected performers of the traditional music of Sligo