I was born in 1939 in a small village near Chorley, Lancashire, in the north west of England, UK. I was named after my father who was William and Cary Grant, my mothers favourite film star at the time of my birth, (she thought his name was Gary Grant). I have always been known as Gary by family and friends. My parents moved to Liverpool in the early part of World War II because my father, a motor vehicle body builder (making wooden framed vehicles) was seconded to an aircraft building facility there were he was involved in the construction of the De-Haviland “Mosquito” night fighter-bomber aircraft (a wooden framed aircraft with a plywood skin, picture below). During our few years stay in Liverpool my mother gave birth to my sister Valerie Ann. After the war we moved to my uncle Jack’s farm near Chorley in Lancashire where we lived for several years, we then moved to a house in the town of Chorley. My main education was at a school in Chorley and when my schooling finished in 1954 I took an apprenticeship with a small Radio & TV business. After various other employments in entertainment electronics and business electronics then redundancy in 1993 I set up my own business carrying out computer related work until semi-retirement in 2005 (See Main Index).