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I am currently re-constructing the site - Please be patient if a link doesn't work - GL 1/9/06

A personal website should say a little about its owner ........

The original title of this page was 'A problem to solve'.  Yes, I do like problems (at least the ones I can see a way through!) but I've spent most of my life with numbers and number crunching.

When I was young, it was anything to do with numbers (shopping, car numbers, I wanted to be a bus conductor, trains).  Then Maths for forty years (I still do a bit of teaching).  Then, in my spare time, sorting out a collection of Matchbox toys.  In the mid-nineties, I went on to names - family names.

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Twenty years ago, the 'Information Highway' was but a dream.  Now we have the www - the possibilities are enormous.  The plan is for it all to come together on these pages ......

MATHS - there's not much of that here, but there's plenty elsewhere on the web if you know where to look.  If you don't, you're not interested!

MATCHBOX TOYS - if that's your line, take a look now.

FAMILY HISTORY - that's how most people find the site.  And all the family can see where we came from.

Richard B Leak (1848-1898)                                                                                   Alexander Hamilton I (1825-1920)

ROAD & RAIL - all sorts of things, mostly to do with history, collecting, things found in the attic ....  Not much there yet , but do take a look!

                                                The 4.14. Oxford to Paddington leaving Oxford behind 7027 Thornbury Castle on 20th June 1960

And ... Life - where I came from - HERONSGATE - and where I'm going to - THE THREAD that runs all the way through!

If anything on these pages catches your imagination, drop me an e-mail.
 

1 Nov 2002

On line from 1 June 2002
Re-formatting Sep 2006
Further revisions to come