After a short spell working for Plessey Research at Caswell, near Towcester, Northants, he joined the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) as a trainee inspector in 1978.  After working in Northampton, Oxford and Nottingham, he moved to Sheffield in 1992, and became a Principal Inspector.  Apart from 3 years in HSE HQ (Bootle), from ’94 to ’96, he continued in Sheffield until he retired in early 2011.

Since then, he has concentrated on Archaeology, completing a part-time BA in the Department of Archaeology at Sheffield University in 2014.  He is actively involved in Baslow History Group, having served as Treasurer until 2015, and given a number of talks on Archaeological topics.  Currently, he spends one day a week helping the Peak District National Park cultural heritage team.

In 2015, he became both treasurer and graphic designer for Baslow Choir, allowing him to indulge his secret talents for counting money and designing posters.

Ian went to school in Edinburgh, and studied physics at Edinburgh University in the early ‘70s, before moving to Oxford in 1973, to do a DPhil, also in Physics (Nuclear Quadrupole Double Resonance, since you asked), at the Clarendon Laboratory and Wolfson College.  There he dabbled with college politics, learned to row (first eight, 1976), became a glider pilot (only a silver C), met Joanna - and did get the D.Phil (1978).