ColinFine

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About me

I am originally from Middlesex (but they stole it in 1965). I have been progressively working my way Northward: Cambridge in 1980, Bradford in 1991, and near Ripon at the end of 2015.

After a degree in Maths and Law at King's College, Cambridge, I worked mostly in IT, but left that to do a Master's in Peace studies at the University of Bradford in 1991-2; I returned to IT in the following years. I worked at Pace plc from 1998 until I retired at the end of 2011.

I have always been interested and active in music (mainly classical), maths, and linguistics; but since my second stint as a student I have had an abiding interest in theatre, culminating in buying the Bradford Playhouse in July 2014. I am also a Morris dancer, and a trustee of the More To Life Foundation, the charity which supports the More to Life programme in the UK.

Some articles I have contributed to

Local history

• Apperley Bridge railway station
• Bradford - also a little in de, fr and cy Wikipedias
• Bradford Canal
• Bradford Forster Square railway station
• The Broadway, Bradford
• Idle (L&BR) railway station
• Kirkby Malzeard
• Leeds and Bradford Railway
• Saltaire
• Shipley, West Yorkshire
• Shipley railway station
• Shipley and Windhill railway station
• Titus Salt

Theatre

• 'Art' (play)
• Devised theatre
• Evening Standard Awards
• Impact Theatre Co-operative
• Bradford Playhouse (via the talk page, because of my conflct of interest).

Other

• London, History of London, Etymology of London
• Morris Dancing (early on, before I understood about sourcing. Red face)
• Merchant Taylors' School
• The Planets
• Tom's Midnight Garden
• Lehenweiler

I'm a regular reader and answerer, at WP:Help Desk, the WP:Teahouse and Wikipedia:Reference desk, and was startled on 18 February 2017 to be awarded the Editor of the Week award because of it.

This user is a recipient of the Editor of the Week award.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Yorkshire.

This editor is a WikiGnome.