Chris Richardson

My 1981 Honda CB 750 Custom Exclusive
My Spiders
 My Motorcycles, the VW Camper and some cars
My Collection of Model Ambulances

Me
I left school with 6 'O' levels and 5 CSE's on 05/07/1972 and became an Ambulance Cadet, then an Ambulanceman, then a Leading Ambulanceman, then a Paramedic and Station Officer. I retired from the service because of ill health on 25/11/2001

My medals

My Family
My wife's name is Gill. Kids in sequence: We have a daughter Carol, son John and a son Peter

 
For some time elmo here was the only thing you would find at www.twit.com. Then it disappeared. That's a shame

 

Here are a few of the things that John has built:

John's Manta Ray Falcon Pro 1
Manta Ray Radio Controlled Car
Falcon Pro 1
The parachute didn't open
Spitfire Saturn 5 Falcon Pro Mk 1
Spitfire
Saturn 5
Falcon Pro Mark 1

My Favourite Things:

My Motorcycles, the VW Camper and some cars

Hornby Stephenson's Rocket
Stephenson's Rocket
Click on the on this thumbnail for a better image

I renovated this recently. I bought it new, maybe 25 years ago and used it quite a lot until the gas bottle started leaking. It runs on Butane gas, the bottle is hidden in the water barrel. I sent the bottle off to Jim Gregg (in Australia, OK OK, I know) for repair and after 4 years or so, he had still not returned it to me so I had to buy a replacement. Thanks for nothing Jim. During the renovation of this, I overtightened a steam pipe screw (my Mother in law distracted me, I know a feeble excuse) and it snapped. Thanks to Rich Hall for making me a new one, so at last I can give it a good run. Click here for an AVI of it running


My Other Favourite Toy, a Sigma 360
You can actually fly into the air with this one if the wind is up



My Favourite Form of Transport

Give me one of these any day:
Bikes I have owned in the past:
Barracuda Showdown
My Bike
:Barracuda Dropzone

My present bikes:
Merida Matts Sports 300 D


Here they are all together on 21/06/2005

This is my favourite food
A Scotch Bonnet
The hottest chilli pepper in existence, just before I ate it!
A Very Hot Chilli

 

This is how the 1999 total eclipse looked from our house using John's telescope. About 90%
Of course, you should turn your monitor the other road up to view this as if you were looking straight at it through smoked glass endangering your vision