Robert is now retired, formerly working as a logistics employee in the printing industry. He passed his teacher training to stage 2 and for several years taught adult beginners in Information Technology. After an illness in 1992, he took up local history research and moved on to heraldry soon after. The latter research becoming more an obsession than a hobby. Married with two grown up children Bob still has a great interest in education, but no longer teaches. He was Chairman of the Workers Education Association, Boston branch, for several years and was a Learner Representative with the Union, Amicus.