User: Dposte46

Dposte46

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This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on May 27, 2007 (16 years, 11 months and 6 days ago).

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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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