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A Cumbrian Lad Barry Coulton |
About the Author |
Barry Coulton was educated in a small village school in West Cumberland. He served a craft apprenticeship at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant and was awarded a flying scholarship while training with the Whitehaven Squadron of the Air Training Corps. At the age of 24, he gave up an aspiring management career with the UK Atomic Energy Authority and ventured into the wilds of Africa. Barry has worked on copper mines in Central Africa, gas seperation plants in Siberia, sugar factories in South America and oil refineries in Malaysia. He has installed and commissioned control systems on more than 160 industrial plants in 46 different countries. He aspired to own engineering companies in Zambia, South Africa, Russia and England. At the time of writing this book Barry Coulton was working as a Black Pearl Pirate in the Disney film trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean. |