User talk:Matthew Armitage

He was a field archaeologist for 8 years - and worked on and supervised various excavations at various places over the UK - including working for the British Museum in Turkey.

He was trained by one of the old canal men on how to handle a narrow boat. I looked after, maintained, steered and became a director of business running a DTI grade 3 passenger vessel which was a high class restaurant boat. At the same time I started a boat school training boatmasters - this school became RYA recognised and has been running for 20 years.

He set up and ran Castlemill Boatyard in Jericho in the middle of Oxford which he operated for 8 years under the same company.

In 2002 he took over and operated a Tooley's Boatyard - 240 year old and a scheduled ancient monument, which is the largest exhibit of the Banbury Museum and a tourist attraction.

From this site, due to his interest in astronomy he have designed a range of astronomy equipment and also workshops and courses - as well as designing new products for the narrow boat industry.

In October 18 he published his book Forging Ahead on the history of Tooley's Boatyard -



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Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.Deb (talk) 11:40, 26 December 2018 (UTC)