The built environment

Historic building restoration and conservation has always been an area both of interest and of concern.  I have served as a trustee on a number of Building Preservation Trusts.  My main interest and passion has been and still is Industrial Archaeology, consequently in my earlier years I developed a specialism in historic watermills and which led to gaining an contemporary involvement in waterpower technology.  I am a member of Kent Archaelogical Society. 

Conservation and Restoration

As a preservation trust, we rescued and restored The Space  an historically important chapel on the Isle of Dogs, London, in order to give new life as a Performing Arts Centre; founder and project manager Robert Richardson, patron Sir Ian McKellen.  

As founder and project manager of another Building Preservation Trust, I spear-headed the campaign and implemented the fundraising campaign to rescue it from demolition, to rebuild and regenerate as a Kents' Working Mill Museum; ​founder trustees R.J. Spain, Paul S. Jarvis, patron The Rt.Hon. Lord Brabourne.

I have also served on Kent Building Preservation Trust.