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<B><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">Welcome to the Latheron web pages. Just a
few random scribblings on various topics including family history, geology and geotechnical engineering, computers,
music and hillwalking.</SPAN></B><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">
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</SPAN></B><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">If you are a member of the Latheron
family, welcome to the tribe. Please get in touch and let me know some of your family history if it differs from
what we already have, or confirm facts and figures if possible. </SPAN><A HREF="genealogy.htm"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">Latheron
family pages.</SPAN></A></P>
<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">Hopefully there
will also be a few pages centred around my fathers experiences in the army during WWII including the period 1940
to 1945 when he was a POW in France, Germany and Poland (in particular Stalag VIIIB (Lamsdorf)).</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">Unfortunately
my father passed away on 22nd January 2007, a few of his poems and later some of his drawings and paintings will
be available </SPAN><A HREF="kenlatheron.htm"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">here</SPAN></A><SPAN
STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">If you want to
help, make a donation to the </SPAN><B><A HREF="http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">Alzheimers
Society</SPAN></A></B><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small"> and ask for the money
to go to research into </SPAN><B><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">Vascular Dementia</SPAN></B><SPAN
STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">Musical tastes
vary, including mine. Current favourites are Bob Fox, Kate Rusby, Show of Hands and The Oysterband. A few links
to gig lists and artistes web sites are included.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">The backbone
of my social life over the past 20+ years has been a love of hillwalking with the occasional rock scramble, mixed
with a keen but unsophisticated enjoyment of taking photographs of nice (or downright scary at times) views. A
few beers in the evening and a few bars of a half remembered song help a bit too.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">A few links to
friendly B&B's camp sites etc, and the notorious </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.outac.org" target="_blank"><SPAN
STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">OUTAC</SPAN></A><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">
web site are also included.</SPAN></P>
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For those of you unfortunate to be interested in computers, although my main PC is running Windows 2000, I also
have SuSE Linux running on a couple of PCs.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">I have been interested
in computers since studying at Sunderland Polytechnic, where the highest technology was brand new 286/386 machines
which we used to do 3D graphics...wow. Some useful links are included for the hardware and software I use.</SPAN></P>
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There are also a few pages devoted to my work as a geotechnical engineer, including links to some useful addresses
for employment agencies, statutory bodies and useful contact names and addresses or references where appropriate.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">I hope you enjoy
your perusal of the web site.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="Text-Align : Center"><SPAN STYLE="Font-Family : Arial, Helvetica ; Font-Size : X-small">Regards, Nick</SPAN>
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