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Pyrotec, from the Greek word for fire or heat, was the name chosen to represent my interests: the history of railways and canals; industrial phosphorus-based chemicals, including matches; the Royal Ordnance Factories as a whole, including the associated World War II Research Establishments at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich and Waltham Abbey; the equivalent Agency Factories run by ICI Nobel Industries; their World War I predecessors; and the Royal Navy equivalents.
I was brought up in Birmingham. I have both a BSc and an MSc from Salford University; I'm currently doing an MSc at Southampton University.
I've lived in Salisbury in the 1970s; Renfrewshire in the 1980s; and currently, Somerset.
