His parents divorced when he was two years old, and after the war, he moved to London with his mother. He was educated at [[Charterhouse Public School]] and qualified as an architect at London's [[Regent Street Polytechnic Architectural School]] in 1964. While at college he invented a system for storing color slides, negative and filmstrips that was subsequently marketed by DW Filmstrips and became the premier international photographic storage system until the advent of electronic storage. | His parents divorced when he was two years old, and after the war, he moved to London with his mother. He was educated at [[Charterhouse Public School]] and qualified as an architect at London's [[Regent Street Polytechnic Architectural School]] in 1964. While at college he invented a system for storing color slides, negative and filmstrips that was subsequently marketed by DW Filmstrips and became the premier international photographic storage system until the advent of electronic storage. |