Work History

Paul has been working as a carpenter since 1980. He started as an apprentice for a local building firm. The Apprenticeship lasted for 3 years, it was split into blocks of six weeks at Crawley College then six weeks gaining hands on experience with the building firm. After the Apprenticeship finished Paul stayed on for another year until he decided to go self - employed.

In this period Paul sub - contracted to carpentry firms and builders carrying out a variety of jobs, the majority of which was new buildings, dealing with all carpentry work from floor joists to roofing to first and second fixing.

In the mid to late 1980's Paul worked for a firm that specialised in truss roofing which involved travelling around the South East and London working on mainly large commercial buildings. Examples of which are the Securicor building and the offices on the old Agates site in Horsham.

Then when the recession of the 1990's happened work was a bit hard to find and Paul was fortunate enough to work on the new shops and flats in Jengers Mead Billingshurst. This job led to another, a new housing estate in Mile Oak by which time we were coming out of recession. Things were starting to boom again with new housing in Littlehampton, Rustington, Storrington, Ford and Findon.

One of Paul's favourite jobs was working at Roedean School in Brighton. The job involved building a theatre on the side of the school.

The most pestigious job was working at Richard Rogers house in the Kings Road Chelsea which involved making one property out of two adjoining properties. Richard Rogers was the Architect of the LLoyds building in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris and more recently Heathrow Terminal 5.

During the past 27 years Paul has experienced a wide variety of work and is looking forward to experiencing other challenges in the future.

Other Interests

Paul is a keen follower of Brighton & Hove Albion, who saw his first game at the Goldstone Ground in the mid 1970's. The Peter Ward era. Some of the most memoral days were being at Wembley for the "Smith must score" FA Cup final, the replay, the 1991 play off final and more recent play off final at the Millenium Stadium, Cardiff.

Paul has watched Brighton play at 20 + grounds around the country.

Paul also has a passion for darts, he is currently playing for the Kings Arms Billingshurst in the Billingshurst League and for the Railway Billingshurst in the Horsham & District League. Some of his trophies include league winners, runners - up, highest check - out, most wins and Victory Cup winner.

His other passion , when he can find the time, is Windsurfing but is finding it difficult to improve as finding conditions in this country is dependant on the right wind conditions, tides and time.

Family

Paul has been married since 1988 and has a son and a daughter.