Important Collection of Irish Paper Money formed by Bob Blake (Part I)

Bob Blake

Born in Winchester in July 1943, Bob lived in that fascinating city until relocating to Jersey in 1965, where he continues to live. As a young man he studied botany and horticulture, spending his first five years in Jersey growing orchids. Engineering, however, was a passion and took over his life in the 1970s; indeed, from 1975 to 1985 he spent most of his time overseas, installing tyre retreading equipment and training users in a number of countries all over the world. In 1985 he started his own engineering business which he continues to manage. Bob has always been interested in sport, both as a participant and an organiser. In the 1960s and 1970s motor racing was his great passion and he competed on the circuits and hillclimbs in a wide variety of machinery, from a Ford Lotus Cortina saloon through a succession of single-seaters, even a fearsome Formula 5000 Crossle built in Northern Ireland. All this, however, had to be put on one side when overseas work took up most of his time. When he started his own business in 1985, he found that he had some spare time and consequently took up shooting. While Bob shot with rifle, pistol and shotgun, his main interest...

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