Tim was born in Cranbrook, Kent and lived there until the family moved to Maidstone, where they started to attend Shepway Free Church. It was there that Tim met Barbara and where they were married, a few years later.

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Tim was an apprentice engineer at the Tilling Stevens factory, part of Chrysler UK, but when Barbara began training as a Physiotherapist, Tim realised that he wanted his occupation to link engineering with health care, in some way.

 

Once married Tim and Barbara moved to London, so that Barbara could finish her training and, after much searching, Tim started to train as a prosthetist (an artificial limb fitter), thereby achieving the link between his engineering ability and care for the individual.

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On completion of his training, Tim was obliged to move from the centre where he had trained, to meet the need for staff at other centres. The options on offer included Manchester and it soon became clear that God’s call was to that option. So, in 1978, following a suggestion from their pastor in Camberwell, Tim and Barbara met the pastor at Mottram Congregational Church (as it was then). On the same day, they found a house, put an offer on it, and made friends with neighbours, who also attended the church and who would later take them in for three months, while the house purchase was completed.

Barbara soon found a job at the same hospital as Tim.

 

After arriving in Mottram, in 1978, Tim became involved in the project to renovate and upgrade the chapel building and, after a short term as Church Treasurer, he became a Church Leader in 1997.

 

Now retired from his paid employment, Tim keeps busy doing DIY and gardening jobs for himself and others, acting as a Trustee for the charity that is Hope Community Church (Tameside & Glossop) and the Lifecentre Hattersley charity. He tries to keep fit by cycling around the area, though as can be seen on Strava, he prefers to do so on his turbo trainer, rather than risk getting wet.