I’m a Blue Badge Tourist Guide based on the edge of Coventry, a medium sized city in the midlands, near Birmingham England's 2nd city and at the heart of our transport network.

I spent over twenty years in education, teaching everyone from six-year-olds to adults, including teenagers with special educational needs.

After moving to Coventry, I became fascinated with the city's history and the wider region, so in 2015 I retrained as a guide, studying for the Heart of England Regional qualification. Since then I’ve also done the Windsor & Eton Endorsement (not only to be allowed to guide there, but it gave me a great insight into the history of our monarchy), the City of Oxford Green Badge (to learn more about the development of our universities) and also a Lowland Walk Leader Qualification (allowing me to guide visitors with confidence using our network of rights of way across the countryside).

With a background in science, I’ve always been interested in the history of science, medicine and industry and during my training I further developed a real love of stained glass and architecture. But primarily I’m interested in the people that made the places we visit what they are today and those are the stories that I love to share with visitors.