Ian
My name is Ian Rose and I was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire in 1949, although I have lived in Essex since 1954.
I work in Accounting, and since 1999 I have worked for a large Waste Management Company in North London. Until 1997 I worked for a Charter Airline for 8 years.
I am building up a collection of photographs of Essex Churches which are available for people to copy for their family history records. Click here to see them.
My spare time interests are Genealogy (of course), Bird Photography, Gardening ,Computing and Travel. My bird photos can be viewed here Click here to see them.
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Helen
Helen is my wife and she was born in Rochford, Essex in 1947. She has lived in Czechoslovakia, South Norwood, Manchester and Enfield prior to moving back to Essex after we were married in 1968.
Helen used to work locally as a Sales Administrator for a Company manufacturing and retailing Labels and Labelling Equipment but after working for the same Company for 30 years, she decided to retire in 2002 and now has a part-time job in tele-sales working just 20 hours a week.
Helen's spare time interests are assisting me with my Genealogy, Knitting, Travel and being dragged around various locations to watch and photograph birds!. She also enjoys cooking and trying out new recipes.
Helen has her own car but she HATES driving.
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We have always had pets ever since we were married and at present have an elderly ginger cat called Oscar . Up until recently we had a Japanese Akita dog called Remy who we sadly lost due to old age and a number of ailments.
We used to show and breed Samoyed dogs and we had a little success in the show ring. We had 24 puppies over the years.
Photographs of our pets, past and present, appear on the web site - CLICK here to see them.
We have been fortunate to
travel fairly extensively over the years, partly due to my job
with the airline, and we have visited most countries in Europe
including the former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Croatia and
Hungary. Further afield, we have been to the Canary Islands
(Tenerife and Fuerteventura), the USA (5 times), Cyprus,
Malaysia, Thailand, Barbados, Egypt and five of the seven United
Arab Emirates. We added New Zealand to this list in March 1999
and again in 2001.
Photograph: 1993
- Our Silver Wedding Year
Hilary - Helen's Sister
Hilary is Helen's "little" sister and eight years ago, together with husband Andrew and children Rachael and Richard, they moved into an old farmhouse in Bedfordshire. Part of the house is 17th Century and part is Victorian. It had not been occupied for 25 years and needed virtually complete renovation.
When I say "moved in", this is not strictly accurate. They were actually living in a converted Pig - Sty until the house itself was habitable. The house has extensive grounds of 7 acres and lots of outbuildings. The grounds are now home for Boots and Laine, who are Llamas,8 Alpacas and also a family of 5 Ming Pigs. There were originally two pigs but a family of 4 piglets appeared shortly after their their acquisition. They also have a Bouvier dog, Maddie . We think she should get a pair of Ostriches!