User:Arwel Parry

I have a BSc in Computing Studies from the University of East Anglia, where I was also involved in the student television service and was for a time a student member of the Royal Television Society. Graduation followed, and the need to earn a living saw me working as a computer programmer for British Rail and its privatised successors for more than 20 years. 2002 wasn't a very good year for me, as early on I was made redundant, (though thankfully after more than a year, temporarily I am no longer still "resting" as actors have it, though this may cut down on my Wikipedianism!) and towards the end of the year my 80 year old mother was taken seriously ill with heart problems, though fortunately she's much improved now. While I was still working, I was a member of the executive committee of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association of Britain and Ireland, and an employee director of my employer's share ownership trust company. I am also active in my local branch of the Labour Party (UK). Interests: History, stamps and coins, politics, science fiction. About me Age: mid-40s Political Affiliations: Leftish Location: Crewe, Cheshire, UK Personal Vices: Wikiholic. 10/10/2003: Became a sysop on English Wikipedia, having been one on Welsh Wikipedia since about July. Thanks to everybody who supported my nomination. On Wiki... Since discovering Wiki at the end of January 2003, I have written mostly on the British railway system, the British coinage, British commercial television, and naval battles of the First World War. I am easily distracted, so my train of thought tends to get derailed by another interest, but sooner or later I'll get round to completing everything I've started! My home page at http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/ may tell you a bit more about me and my interests. My Wiki Contributions New or largely rewritten pages: Coinage British coin Five Pounds British coin Two Pounds British coin One Pound British coin Fifty Pence British coin Twenty Pence British coin Ten Pence British coin Five Pence British coin Two Pence British coin One Penny British coin Half Penny British coin Fifty Shillings British coin Broad English coin Noble English coin Florin or Double Leopard British coin Double Florin English coin Half Florin or Leopard British coin Florin English coin Twenty Pence English coin Quarter Florin or Helm British coin Three Halfpence English/British coin Penny ..which is something of a magnum opus in 8 parts English Penny part 1 English Penny part 2 English Penny part 3 British Penny part 1 British Penny part 2 British Penny part 3 British Penny part 4 English coin Three Farthings English/British coin Halfpenny English/British coin Farthing British coin Half Farthing British coin Third Farthing British coin Quarter Farthing Arnold Machin Maundy money Railways ATOC Liverpool and Manchester Railway Grand Junction Railway Great Northern Railway London and North Western Railway Television Associated-Rediffusion Associated British Corporation Astra Channel Television Granada Television Independent Television Authority Pobol y Cwm S4C Television Act of 1954 Television Wales and the West Wales West and North Television Naval battles Battle of Coronel Battle of Dogger Bank Battle of Heligoland Bight Battle of the Falkland Islands SMS Gneisenau SMS Scharnhorst Maximilian von Spee Hans Langsdorff HMS Ajax HMS Bristol HMS Canopus HMS Carnarvon HMS Cornwall HMS Exeter HMS Glasgow HMS Good Hope HMS Kent HMS Monmouth HMNZS Achilles Doveton Sturdee Miscellaneous articles Crewe and Nantwich Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody Holy Island, Anglesey Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester Nantwich National Museum of Photography, Film and Television National Museum of Science and Industry National Railway Museum University of East Anglia Slightly amended pages: Coinage British coinage Money Railways British railway system Flying Scotsman Wales and Borders Television British Broadcasting Corporation Channel 4 Five ITV Tiswas Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Naval battles Battlecruiser Miscellaneous articles 9/11 (movie) Communications in Jersey Crewe Demographics of Jersey Ford Prefect Hillsborough disaster Holyhead Isle of Man TT Jack Charlton Jodrell Bank List of assassinated persons List of employer associations List of labor unions List of strange words in the English language Liverpool Manchester Airport Manchester Metropolitan University Margaret Thatcher Monty Python and the Holy Grail Rugby, Warwickshire Stoke-on-Trent Sandbox Monobook.css Monobook.js