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Owen John Oliver ( b.13.9.1925,  d.17.5.2014) Artist and Tug man who was born with out hands. Known as John, Joliver and  Johnny No Hands. John was born in Glinton, Northamptonshire, and died in Rocheste, Kent, He attended Northampton School from 1947-1951 and gained an NDD (National Degree in Design). He travelled around the UK  on a tricycle with a trailer/tent painting and working on farms. He regularly sailed on Thyra, a Thames Sailing Barge, from Peterborough to Hull .In the late 1950s he settled in Rochester,Kent and became  a ferryman and ran his own tug called Hobbit. He worked the East coast from Faversham to Maldon towing barges and lighters.