uncletony - born in February 1946, the only son of Harold and Joan, is one of the so-called 'bulge babies' conceived at the end of the Second World War (W.W.II).
He spent his school years initially in North London (Primrose Hill Primary and Holloway County Secondary schools) then in Bolton, Lancashire (Bolton Technical School).

uncletony lives with his wife, Carole and three grown-up children; Jenny, James and Jeffrey and cat 'Fred'

uncletony? - why uncletony?
His wife (Carole) works as a childminder. All the children in her care call her "Auntie Carole".
Smilarly they call him 'uncletony'. It is as simple as that !!

uncletony's employment history is quite varied ... he left school at 16 (1962) and joined the Post Office - then called the GPO (it later became British Telecom). He was based in Manchester and got excellent training in all aspects of telephone engineering.

Seeing a job opportunity that was closer to his hobby of Amateur (Ham) radio he moved to Rank Bush Murphy and spent a couple of interesting years working in taxi and commercial VHF radio comms networks from a workshop in Islington, north London.

In 1967 uncletony answered a newspaper advert offering 'an exciting overseas career' and, as a consequence, joined Decca Navigator and spent nearly 2 years at various VLF (very low-frequency) radio transmitting stations around the Persian Gulf.

For more info and history about Decca Navigator please visit:

this article by Dave, G4FTC, and see here.

In September 1969 he was financially persuaded(!) to join the major oil-service company Schlumberger and he stayed with them until July 1978. He spent his time in Iran working in bases in Bushire, Lavan Island (Sheikh Shuaib) and Ahwaz.

He then transferred to similar work with Dresser Atlas (now Baker Atlas) and spent time in Germany and Norway before settling in Aberdeen, Scotland in Sept 1979.

For a history of Dresser Atlas visit here.

He changed jobs in late 1980/early 1981 and spent about 6 months with Dowell Schlumberger before being 'headhunted' by Gearhart Wireline in June '81 when they were just starting North Sea operations. The company has since been swallowed-up by Halliburton.

For historical information about Gearhart Industries visit:
here and about Computalog (Gearhart's Canadian partner) here.

Nowadays he teaches essential practical workshop skills in electronic engineering to a variety of students in the School of Engineering.

For the past 10 years he has been closely involved with the teaching of Electronic Systems Engineering on the Product Design for Industry and Engineering Design courses hosted at Grays School of Art.

uncletony loves driving. Anywhere, anytime, on the left, on the right. 3 or more wheels. No problem!
On recent summer vacations he has driven 3500 miles (5000km) in Canada in 22 days and 4250 miles in USA in 24 days. Sheer heaven!

Since their 25th wedding anniversary (in 1996) uncletony and auntiecarole have worked hard tp try and have a winter holiday each year. Reasonably priced package holidays direct from Aberdeen make the Canary Islands a very attractive destination . They have been to Tenerife many times and recommend the Laguna Park 1 aparthotel complex in the quieter part of Playa de las Americas.
Don't mistake 'our' aparthotel for Laguna Park 2 which is NOT at all recommended. E-mail us for more info...!

In January 2004 for a change they visited Orlando, Florida. The weather was unseasonally cold, but nonetheless they had a very enjoyable week, saw plenty of stuff and met many nice people. In January 2005 Tony and Carole went to Miami for the same cost as going to Tenerife. The weather was great and they even managed a visit to Key West

For summer holidays they has been to most major destinations in Europe and have 'done' a lot of Canada, California and the South-West states of USA.