User:Paul W

I live in Blackheath, London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, though I have previously lived in other parts of London (including Kingsbury - where I was born - St John's Wood, Kilburn, Islington, Mile End, Kennington and the Maze Hill district of Greenwich), in Leicester and in Nantwich, south Cheshire.

I started editing in October 2003 (the first page I created was about Greenwich Park), and have drifted away from time to time, only to find myself drawn back for sometimes quite intense periods of editing. My edits total passed the 10,000 mark in May 2009; by the end of 2011, I had created nearly 370 pages.

My interests mainly relate to the local history of places in south-east London, and the people associated with them (particularly civil engineers and architects, but also artists, writers, politicians and others).

Working (as a marketing and PR professional) in the construction industry (since 1987) often gets me delving into other areas of civil engineering, particularly tunnels, dams and bridges, both recent and historic, in the UK and overseas. More recently, I have tried to expand Wikipedia's coverage of industry membership and trade associations, and have contributed on construction computing topics (outside of Wikipedia, I have written a book and journal articles and I write a blog about certain niche areas of construction ICT).

I have also contributed and edited many of the articles on cycling, and some football ones too. Having studied criminology, I have also written about London prisons and magistrates.

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