The Bognor Chronicles: There Are Two Kinds of People in This World . . .

I first met Ray in 1969 and, from then on, heard about his beloved Bognor. He talked about his family, friends, school days, boyhood haunts with such nostalgia that made it seem like some Shangri-la the world had yet to discover. Ray graduated from high school at Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute and went on to attend Ryerson Institute of Technology in Toronto, studying gas technology. After many years in that industry, Ray finished his forty-five-year career as a Senior Corrosion Technologist for an engineering firm whose specialty was underground pipeline coatings and cathotic protection. He travelled to many places across Canada on his assignments. Ray started writing his Bognor anecdotes in 1983 while he was working away from home. We have lived in Vallentyne and Sunderland for the past thirty-four years.