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Gender Male
Industry Manufacturing
Occupation Stores Team Leader
Location Ryhope, Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom
Introduction I am a Northern League supporter without a club to favour and double as a sometime genealogist who has researched his family tree back to the early 1600's, compiling a file of individual relatives totalling just over 3,000 names. I have been happily married to Maureen for 53 years. We have 1 son, 3 daughters, 14 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren, and absolutely no money!
Interests Football, Genealogy, Football, Naval Historical Fiction, Football, Work, Football, Beer, Football, Family, ... Did I say Football?
Favorite Movies Goonies, French Connection, E.T., Kelly's Heroes (who can forget Donald Sutherland's performance as Oddball "I'm drinking wine and eating cheese and catching some rays you know"?
Favorite Music Dire Straits, The Shadows, The Beatles, Foreigner, Queen, Status Quo
Favorite Books Anything by Alexander Kent, Douglas Reeman, Dudley Pope, C S Forrester, The Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell, The Cross series by James Patterson, Cole and Pike series by Robert Crais, Rebus by Ian Rankin. Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters. Ann Cleeves - Vera and Shetland series.