Welcome to The-Manors

What is The-Manors?
The-Manors website is intended to provide me with the opportunity to share information with anyone out there who arrives here either by accident or design. To all of you, I wish a warm welcome, and sincerely hope that you find something of interest in the ramblings that constitute these pages.

Overview
In the various pages, you may find information about me, Formula 1, computing, (predominantly from yester-year), steam trains, random photographs of any subject, and anything else I can find to put in the storage allocated to me.


Computing
Some of the pages in the computers section relate to the two computers that I built in the 1980s, one of which I designed and built from scratch, see pages for Colin MK I and Colin MK II.

Designing and building a unique computer gave me many hours of pleasure and both computers ran CP/M, the operating system of the day. The computers section has a particularly 'retro' feel to it, not by accident!

I will also post some information and pictures of vintage computer gear that I have been involved with. Certainly not an extensive computer history, but hopefully interesting snippets of old information and pictures.

Formula 1
The site features some information & photos of a Grand Prix nature, past & present.

To date, my most exciting experiences have been driving a Formula 1 car around the Barcelona GP track in 2017, pics and videos to view, and an F3000 car around the Yas Marina circuit in 2018.

I have also posted pictures and videos from Silverstone in October 2007, when I drove around the Southern circuit in a Lotus Exige & Ferrari F360, and there will are some old GP photos from the past which I took, predominantly in the UK. Hopefully, to give an idea of how the cars have evolved over the years.


Steam trains
OK, so I'm an old git, and I happen to like steam trains.

First set of pics are from a journey down the Carlisle-Settle route behind an A4 Pacific. If you don't know what an A4 Pacific is, and what on looks like, you may find out!

Photos
In addition to the other topics, I will also be posting photos which may or may not be of interest to you. Some are personal ones, others will be of places of interest that I like, such as old castles. You don't have to look if you don't want to!.


Final comments
If there's anything you like, dislike, want to pass comment on, or would like more information about; you can contact me using The-Manors contact form. If you're brave enough to leave your email address, I will even reply to you.