Location: Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Born: Cairns

Biographical background relevant to Wikipeida articles I've worked on:

"History of Cairns main article"

Since 1997 I have been employed four days a week as a volunteer archive research assistant in the Cairns Historical society museum. This archive is used extensively by university students doing history degress, authors of historical books,newspaper journalists and the general public researching local and family history. The current document collection stands at over 18,000 items.

"Charlie McMahon"

Since the 1980s I have collected a large press clipping archive of Charlie McMahon and his various music projects. This archive is the source for information and references added by me to the article.

"Ron Grainer"

I started collecting a large archive of newspaper and magazine clippings about Ron Grainer in 2011. This archive is the source for information and references added by me to the article.

Articles I have contributed to: edit

"History of Cairns main article"

"Charlie McMahon"

"Wuthering Heights" added link to song cycle version.

"Arthur Stace" article added link to DVD of documentary "Eternity".

"Ron Grainer" added extensive historical and composition detail to original article.

Interests edit

Local History / Classical European Music especially J S Bach / Unusual Australian Musicans and groups / non compromised World Music / Music composition [keyboards]/ New Scientist magazine / Theosophy /"Conceptual Breakthrough" Science Fiction short stories of the 1950's/

tobalwin (talk) 21:28, 12 February 2009 (UTC)