QUESTION 9 If you had your time over again, would you change anything?


Yes. I had passed the Essex County Scholarship when I was 11 and was receiving a good combined education at a Technical College when family circumstances forced me to leave. As I was under 16 when I started work, I had to have one day off a week to keep my hours under the legal maximum. I should have used that day to go to Poplar Technical College to continue my education. I didn’t and so wasted much time. Had I have done so I would have had an HNC by the time I was a third- year apprentice and probably a doctorate by the time I was 22. I regret that time wasted and the only excuse I have is that I didn’t have anyone to guide me.


If I


could go back, I would definitely change that.


QUESTION 10 I understand you have been writing an anthology of your life as a marine surveyor. What can you tell me about this work and when might we be able to read it?


I wrote the history of the first part of my life for my family and they keep nagging me to bring it up to date. That is available now.


It


takes the reader, more or less, to the end of my apprenticeship. For the last ten years, however, as time allows in a very busy life, I have been writing a Manual on the Marine Surveying of Small Craft based upon my experience of the profession. Volume 1 is on the final edit stage. Volume 2 is in draft form and Volume 3 almost complete.


based on my experience of working in the profession from the age of 14. I think that it will be ready in a year from now.


This poster was produced to advertise The London Graving Dock and Thames Shipyards exhibition. The Thames


Festival Trust put on this exhibition about the ship and boat building industry on


the River Thames to recognise the history and heritage of the London Graving Dock Co, based in Blackwall since 1617.


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