In 1976 after leaving school I learnt lots about growing plants in a local Market garden then I went into retail (starting in motor accessories and DIY retailing moving into petrol service stations and then newsagents and Garden centers ) its quite interesting to note that very soon after starting work I became interested in items that had historical interest .......examples would be old cash registers, clocks,display cabinets, radio & audio......... significantly, I already had an interest in Audio and electronics as when I was at Abbotsholme School I helped run a small pirate radio station...great fun, The large motor accessory and DIY centers I worked for in the 1980's sold car Audio,significant in as much as it provided a great grounding and learning curve for one of my passionate interests and collections, 8 Track tape players and Tapes. much more about this and my other collecting passions later in our planned collections news section

Needless to say, by the end of the 80's I already had a collection of several doz valve radio's, many records and tapes and so I had well and truly caught the collecting bug.......it was also at this time I bought my first computer ( a Tandy TRS 80) now a bit of a classic in its own right from 1979. I wrote my first article about creating a club for collecting and calling it Time tunnel collections and the rest (as they say) is history.