User:Jono mallard

My full name is Jonathan Bailey Mallard, born in Warley, Worcestershire in 1948. Went to Moat Farm Infant School, Moat Farm Junior School and Oldbury Grammar School. Then Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. I was asked to join the Birmingham Repertory Theatre company by its director, Peter Dews and was there doing 3 weekly rep with Mike Gambon and Tim Dalton until 1970. Then I was asked to do the Chichester Festival and one of the plays transferred to the west end where I stayed for a year until the end of 1971. It having been a hobby really, rather than a job of work, I then followed my own path and have been doing various jobs, cake factory, managing for a music company, a charity, mini cabbing, delivering water et cetera. My main interest has been in research. I have about 3,000 non-fiction books and have revelled in my field for a long time. I am more or less retired now and fascinated by the things I've discovered. It would be interesting to interact with previous school pals or theatre pals - but that is up to them...I'm curious if any of them are interested in their own fields of research. I'll reveal my subject on request and leave off with a comment someone made a few years ago and which stayed in my head, they said: "Jonathan, everyone thinks you're mad...I think you're mad...except for one thing...you're consistent in your madness - and that disturbs me...". vincit omni Veritas