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Firstly who am I.
I am a West Auckland resident born
and bred, err well bred spent a mere first six months of my life
in Newton Aycliffe, not that I remember that much. lived in 3 areas of
West, grew up on Oakley Green, Spent a short while at Copeland road,
then on to Chapel street. Moved out from my folks and lived on Manor
road in St Helens and then onto Mayfield Walk also in St Helens.
Educated firstly at Copeland
road Junior and Infants school and then moved on to Oakley Cross when it
first Opened. From the I went to King James Comprehensive. When I left
there I went on to a YTS and became a factory worker, decided to go back
to night school and put right what I should have done first time round,
( I will emphasize that for the kids that's reading this tick in
at school." I then got a job with the local ambulance service served my
time and qualified as a paramedic, did some more study in
management and then continued studying for a degree in pre-hospital
care. Now work as a team leading paramedic at Bishop Ambulance station
for the North East Ambulance Service.
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So why West Auckland Web.
After qualifying as a paramedic,
although I grew up with computers (BBC micro and the Amiga 500) I didn't
really no how to use a PC. I bought one with Windows 95, taught
myself how to use MS Dos and windows, and thought about the web
this was in 1998 - 99 just as the web was making an impact. West
Auckland did not have a dedicated website (the was a presence of some
history about west but not dedicated to it,)
West for a small village having so
much history, just needed to be on the web.
So I thought why not build one,
I never done it before haven't a clue how but I will start somewhere. so
whilst learning how to use HTML (internet language) I used publisher to
build my website and then convert it.
Over the years its changed a number
of times, but the current format has been around longest. Yes I know it
needs refreshing I will do this eventually.
So really West Auckland Web is my
hobby, I take photos of things that change and keep them stored for the
future. I have in the region of perhaps 5 - 10 gb of photos and video of
west for future generations to view in the form of another project for
when I retire.
thats pretty much all i am
going to write about now, (will add more later) |
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