Finch Family Pages

there was lots of this in 2001

Dan looking good

Will on top

Belinda about to

Dad at Weston 1989

Mum

Sue in the bushes

PF near the bushes

Julie keeping her eyes open

He used to be called Anthony

William Stanley Finch
Finished at University in July, 2001. Plays football in the Whitchurch League (second division). Training at Fitness First. Worked at Dimension 10 in Mount Stuart Square until 2003. After running his own design company, Root Media, in Cardif Bay he took a design post with Dyson outside Bristol. Christmas 2007 announced pending marriage to Sarah.

Will and Sarah. Engagement now announced.

Belinda Lowri Finch
Adjust Belinda - try your luck. Belinda now works in Newbury. Belinda is not afraid of fish. Has moved to St Margarets, Twickenham, terraced space, with a river flowing at the foot of her new garden.

Belinda (& instructor) in the Red Sea

News of Dan
Daniel Huw Finch got his degree. BA in Business Studies from Nene University, 1999. Here's an update on what's happened since then:

Leaves Cardiff for Heathrow 7th December, 1999.
Flies to New York (exciting and expensive).
Reaches Boston a week later.
Train to Chicago (cold).
Memphis (working class)
New Orleans
Orlando
Phones from Key West, Florida on Christmas Day 1999.
Plans Los Angeles, 57 hours on the train next.
Calls from Las Vegas where he's lost $50 and is heading for Mexico
Calls from LA. Mexico was hot
Phones from Honolulu, Hawaii on 23 January, 2000. It's Fiji next
Fiji is small and the local drink lays him low for five days
New Zealand and the whole Kiwi experience are reported as amazing - skydiving, black water rafting, walking on glaciers, and the rest.
Flies to Sydney 10 March, 2000
Phones from Sydney 12 March, 2000. Money low.
Phones from Surfers' Paradise - the Gold Coast - near Brisbane on 27th March, 2000. It's thirty degrees and the money's almost gone.
e-mail photos arrive. See below.
Reaches Airlie Beach, some 1000 Ks north of Brisbane.
1st May, 2000 having spent two weeks in the rain on Magnetic island arrives at boiling hot Cairns, Northern Queensland.
Birthday on 7th May, 2000 (23 years old) still in 30 degree Cairns but setting off soon for Ayres Rock.
end of May calls from Adelaide. Done Ayres Rock, Kangaroos, flies, heat & dust. Next stop Sydney.
Reaches Sydney June 2000, reunited with mates & rents a house. Gets a job with the Olympics, 29% tax but what the hell.
Works day and night and day again. If the Olympians are late getting to the stadium then blame Dan.
14th November, 2000 reaches home again. 30 hour flight from Sydney via Singapore and Amsterdam gets him to Stanstead, bus to Heathrow where he's collected. We all get boomerangs and t-shirts. Excellent to have him back.
Summer 2001- Dan takes on temporary work at MAFF. Keeps saying only until the autumn. We shall see.
Autumn 2001 - Moves into flat at 85a Cathays Terrace, Cardiff
Spring 2002 - works on a postgrad phd in marketing at the University of Glamorgan. Great progress.

Summer 2002 - Moves to 9 Emerald Street on the borders of Splott and Adamsdown right next to Mr Angry
MAFF keeps on keeping the wolf from the door
May 2003 temporary blip has Dan move back to Southminster
moves to a new flat in Kyveilog Street, Canton. Off Cathedral Road. Needs a new ironing board. He says.
In September, 2003 gets a job as Marketing Officer for Caerfili Council at Ystrad Mynach. The staff canteen isn't bad.
Moves on to buy a house Bedwas Street, Grangetown, Cardiff. Cat, wooden floors, coloured glass.
Puts in a Belfast sink
Takes a job working for Newport Council
2008 still short of cash

Watch Dan

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Marjorie Noele Finch
1 December, 1920 - 27 June, 2001.
Died peacefully at Normanton Home for the Aged, Shrewsbury. Will be missed so much. Ashes now interred at Thornhill, Cardiff.

Photo Archive
latest shots
historic shots
Salford 2004

Evie Iona Finch
Tim & Cat's

Which one is Daniel?

Belinda & Jon with Will in the mirror
Xmas 1999

Belinda & Jon, 1998

Will, Daniel, Belinda, Jon, Grandma
- Shropshire 1998

Pete & Sue, 1999

Daniel & Belinda outside St Margaret's Church
- 27th July, 2001

Belinda & Jon at Cwmbran
- 29th July, 2001

thugs

Checking the time at St Margaret's Church
- Cardiff 28th July, 2001

Belinda and Jon on the Museum steps
- Cardiff 28th July, 2001

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