User:Dposte46



Hello. I am a fairly new Wikipedian. I signed up on 27th May 2007. I am married and live in Whitley Bay, on the north-east coast of England. I was born in 1946 and retired in September 2006, after a career in I.T. I like reading (fiction and non-fiction) and have a keen interest in local history. My one regret is that it has taken me so long to discover the joys of being a Wikipedian.

I have started the following articles:
 * Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne (DYK article on 30 Jun 2007)
 * Keelmen
 * Robert Chambers (oarsman)
 * James Renforth (Tyneside oarsman)
 * Shipley Art Gallery (in Gateshead)
 * Battle of Alnwick (1174) (capture of William I of Scotland)
 * Battle of Alnwick (1093) (Malcolm III of Scotland killed)
 * Clemence Dane (writer and playwright)
 * John Fowler (agricultural engineer) (DYK article on 2 Nov 2007)
 * SS British Queen (Victorian transatlantic steamship)
 * Holtzapffel (Company making ornamental lathes)
 * Thomas Mudge (horologist) (invented the lever escapement)
 * John and Benjamin Green (North East architects)
 * Dick Richardson (boxer) (Welsh boxer of the fifties and sixties)
 * Maurice Cullen (boxer) (British lightweight champion from County Durham)
 * List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions
 * National Sporting Club ( original ruling body for boxing in G.B.)
 * Jack London (boxer) (father of Brian London)
 * List of British middleweight boxing champions
 * Dick Turpin (boxer) (British middleweight champion & Randolph's brother)
 * Chic Calderwood (Scottish light-heavyweight boxer)
 * List of British welterweight boxing champions
 * Brian Curvis (Welsh welterweight boxer)
 * List of British lightweight boxing champions
 * Jonathan Thaxton (British lightweight champion)
 * List of British featherweight boxing champions
 * Nel Tarleton (three-times British featherweight champion]]
 * List of British bantamweight boxing champions
 * List of British flyweight boxing champions
 * Condercum (Roman fort at Benwell)
 * Vindobala (Roman fort at Rudchester)
 * Hunnum (Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall)
 * Aesica (Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall)
 * Camboglanna (Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall)
 * Petriana (Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall)
 * Rudge Cup (Roman cup listing forts on Hadrian's Wall)
 * Battle of Linlithgow Bridge (battle fought in Scotland in 1526)

I have also made significant contributions to the following articles:
 * History of Newcastle upon Tyne
 * North Shields (town at mouth of River Tyne)
 * Richard Grainger (re-developed Victorian Newcastle upon Tyne)
 * John Dobson (architect) (nineteenth-century North East architect)
 * John Clayton (Newcastle) (town clerk in Newcastle upon Tyne)
 * Thomas Oliver (architect) (nineteenth-century North East architect)
 * George Stephenson (railway builder)
 * Robert Stephenson (locomotive designer and railway builder)
 * William George Armstrong (Tyneside armaments manufacturer)
 * George Wightwick Rendel (engineer and ship designer)
 * Joseph Locke (railway builder)
 * Seaton Sluice (seaside village in Northumberland)
 * Prudhoe Castle (Tyneside castle)
 * Harry Clasper (Tyneside oarsman and boat designer)
 * Newcastle Castle Keep
 * Blackfriars, Newcastle (Dominican friary in Newcastle)
 * Norham Castle (castle in north Northumberland)
 * Newcastle town wall
 * Tynemouth Castle and Priory
 * Battle of Hedgeley Moor (battle of the Wars of the Roses)
 * Hughie Gallacher (legendary Tyneside footballer)
 * Battle of Heavenfield (Northumbrian army defeated Welsh army)
 * William Jessop (civil engineer and canal builder)
 * Abraham Darby I (inventor of iron smelting with coke as fuel)
 * Joseph Bramah (locksmith and inventor)
 * Matthew Murray (steam pioneer and inventor)
 * Lewis Casson (actor, theatre director, husband of Sybil Thorndike)
 * Henry Maudslay (engineer and inventor)
 * Frederick W. Lanchester (automotive and aeronautics inventor)
 * Harry Ricardo (engine designer)
 * RMS Britannia (first Cunard ocean liner)
 * Collins Line (U.S. steamship company - competitor of Cunard Line)
 * Dionysius Lardner (Scientific writer who clashed with Brunel)
 * Marc Isambard Brunel (builder of the Thames Tunnel)
 * John Connelly (Burnley and England footballer)
 * William Walcher (murdered Norman bishop of Durham)
 * Robert de Mowbray (Norman earl of Northumbria under William II)
 * Uchtred the Bold (Earl of Northumbria (1006-1016))
 * Osulf II of Northumbria (Earl of Northumbria, briefly in 1067)
 * Joe Erskine (Welsh boxer)
 * Brian London (English heavyweight boxer)
 * William Thomas Wells (boxer Bombardier Billy Wells)
 * Lonsdale Belt (history of the boxing trophy)
 * Blackgate (Newcastle's castle barbican)
 * Don Cockell (English boxer who fought Rocky Marciano)
 * Jack Petersen (Welsh heavyweight boxer of 1930s)
 * Freddie Mills (English light-heavyweight boxer)
 * Terry Marsh (boxer) (light-welterweight world champion)
 * Albert Finch (British middleweight and light-heavyweight boxer)
 * Walter McGowan (Scottish flyweight boxer)
 * Howard Winstone (Welsh featherweight boxer)
 * Billy Hardy (boxer from Sunderland)
 * Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria
 * Segedunum (Roman fort in Wallsend)
 * Stanegate (Roman road from Corbridge to Carlisle)

To see a full list of my contributions click here.

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