User:ColinFine

About me
I am originally from Middlesex (but they stole it in 1965). I have been progressively working my way Northward: Cambridge in 1980, Bradford in 1991, and near Ripon at the end of 2015.

After a degree in Maths and Law at King's College, Cambridge, I worked mostly in IT, but left that to do a Master's in Peace studies at the University of Bradford in 1991-2; I returned to IT in the following years. I worked at Pace plc from 1998 until I retired at the end of 2011.

I have always been interested and active in music (mainly classical), maths, and linguistics; but since my second stint as a student I have had an abiding interest in theatre, culminating in buying the Bradford Playhouse in July 2014. I am also a Morris dancer, and a trustee of the More To Life Foundation, the charity which supports the More to Life programme in the UK.

Local history

 * Apperley Bridge railway station
 * Bradford - also a little in de, fr and cy Wikipedias
 * Bradford Canal
 * Bradford Forster Square railway station
 * The Broadway, Bradford
 * Idle (L&BR) railway station
 * Kirkby Malzeard
 * Leeds and Bradford Railway
 * Saltaire
 * Shipley, West Yorkshire
 * Shipley railway station
 * Shipley and Windhill railway station
 * Titus Salt

Theatre

 * 'Art' (play)
 * Devised theatre
 * Evening Standard Awards
 * Impact Theatre Co-operative
 * Bradford Playhouse (via the talk page, because of my conflct of interest).

Other

 * London, History of London, Etymology of London
 * Morris Dancing (early on, before I understood about sourcing. Red face)
 * Merchant Taylors' School
 * The Planets
 * Tom's Midnight Garden
 * Lehenweiler

I'm a regular reader and answerer, at WP:Help Desk, the WP:Teahouse and Reference desk, and was startled on 18 February 2017 to be awarded the Editor of the Week award because of it.