User:Pterre

I am an exiled 6th-generation Londoner living in Hampshire, England. I have worked as a Town Planner in London and in the computer industry in the Thames Valley. Currently contributing randomly, as and when time permits.

Interests

 * Local history, particularly the industrial history of London and the Port of London. As a geographer I take a wide definition of London, including Greater London, the surrounding area where the economy is closely linked to London, its port and airports, and the wide ring of towns grown large due to London leap-frogging the artificial constriction of the greenbelt.
 * Computing. I've messed about with computers on and off since my first Digi-Comp I in 1967, did a Postgrad Diploma in Computing in the 1980s and a Masters in GIS in the 90s. Along the way owned ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum and numerous PCs from CP/M onwards, and worked with Vax, ICL and IBM mainframes, Unix and embedded systems.
 * Science, particularly geomorphology, geology, evolution and climate change.
 * Photography. I've been taking photos for about 40 years and got my first digital SLR in 2005. Quite a few of my photos have been added to Wikipedia or Commons either by me or by others from the Geograph project.

Articles or stubs created
Sparsholt College Hampshire; A3090 road; Rockware Glass; HMS Warspite (1666); Blackwall Yard; HMS Terpsichore; Enfield Cables Ltd; Category:Chemical industry in London; Poplar Dock; HMS Trident; HMS Trident (1845); Lucas CAV; Pura Foods Ltd; British Insulated Callender's Cables; BICC; British Light Steel Pressings; HMS Hornet (1893); Brunswick Wharf Power Station; Shell Haven; Grain Power Station; Coryton, Devon; Coryton (disambiguation); Littlebrook Power Station; Belvedere Power Station; Brimsdown Power Station; West Ham Power Station; Fulham Power Station; Deptford Power Station; West Thurrock Power Station; Barking Power Station; St. Catherine's Hill, Hampshire; London Basin; Frank Land; Michael F. Land; Diachronous; Psephite; Willey Reveley; Forty Hall; Onlap; Leckford; Hampshire Basin; FGS (disambiguation); Henry Hurd Swinnerton; William Watson (sinologist); Laurence Dudley Stamp; Sidney William Wooldridge; David Leslie Linton; Land Utilisation Survey of Britain; Alice Coleman; Vale of Pewsey; Shoenberg; A1010 road (Great Britain); Heatherwood Hospital; John Brian Harley; List of national mapping agencies; Winnall, Hampshire; Blackwall Point Power Station; Woolwich Power Station; Acton Lane Power Station; Croydon Power Station; Taylors Lane Power Station; Winnall Moors; Kingston Power Station, London; Hackney Power Station; Stepney Power Station; Bulls Bridge Power Station; Northfleet Power Station; Standon, Hertfordshire; Template:GLS Presidents; Frederick William Shotton; Janet Vida Watson; Percy George Hamnall Boswell; Herbert Leader Hawkins; William George Fearnsides; George Martin Lees; Walter Campbell Smith; Cyril James Stubblefield; Sydney Ewart Hollingworth; Thomas Neville George; William Alexander Deer; Wallace Spencer Pitcher; Percival Allen; Edward Howel Francis; Derek John Blundell; Anthony Leonard Harris; Charles David Curtis;Richard Frederick Paynter Hardman; Robin Cocks; Walter Frederick Whittard; John William Evans; Centre for Environmental Studies; Richborough Power Station; Michael John Wise; Duncan Cumming; George Sydney Bishop; Edmund George Irving; Gilbert Laithwaite; James Marshall-Cornwall; Harry Lindsay; Charles Hepworth Holland; Bernard Elgey Leake ; Lea Valley; Red Crag Formation; East Greenwich Gas Works; Brentford Dock; Enderby's Wharf; Southall Gas Works; Westwood, Baillie; London Yard; J & W Dudgeon; River Allen (Truro); Custom House, City of London; Alderdice; Battlebridge Basin; Cascate del Varone; Hornsey Central Hospital

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Categories created
Category:Manufacturing industries in London; Category:Shipbuilding in London; Category:Aircraft industry in London; Category:Food processing in London; Category:Vehicle manufacture in London; Category:Cable manufacture in London; Category:Electronics industry in London; Category:Brewing in London; Category:Monarch's Way; Category:Thematic maps of the United Kingdom

Significant contributions to
Oliver's Battery; ICL DRS; Kings' School; Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company; Beckton Gas Works; Port of London; Coryton Refinery; Greenwich Peninsula; David William Rhind; Geography of London; Merrivale, Devon; List of locations in the Port of London; Priory Park, Haringey; Category:River Lea; Category:Port of London

Places I've been
Not much of a traveller, but over the years I've been to: