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Barry Jyam
BARRY JYAM
Barry was born in Essex, one of four boys, he now lives in the south of England, he is 73 years old, father of four children, has six grand-children and four great grand-children.
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Barry was born in Essex, one of four boys, he now lives in the south of England, he is 73 years old, father of four children, has six grand-children and four great grand-children.
He had a very basic education, leaving school for a job found by his father when he was 15yrs old, every one in the family had to be earning as soon as possible.
His Father and Mother were both born in the east end of London and moved to Essex during the second World War after losing two houses due to the bombing.
He has always been an avid reader, enjoying a wide range of authors and subjects. A friend persuaded him to write down some of the things he had been involved in, these are the basis of all the Salvors Series of books.
He formed his own scrap metal company and progressed with this company into Demolition, again with the purpose of acquiring the metal that arose from such activities. After five years he was able to lease a loading pier in Essex, and started exporting scrap metal to Europe.
He then formed another company with friends in the shipping world to purchase their own coasters whose size was limited only by the depth of water at the quay. When metal was shipped out building materials were purchased to bring back to UK much needed building materials including bricks, wood, sand, ballast, and scaffolding.
As a private wharf he was put under pressure during the Dock strikes and Steel workers strike to cease working, but as he was only handling his own and other contracted work he never closed his gates and eventually was left alone to continue work in his own field. He also purchased scrap minesweepers, lifeboats, barges, ferry's, and other vessels purely to bring even more work to the quay.
During this time he was offered and took the opportunity to clear wrecks and cargoes from many different locations, mainly work that the large Salvage companies were not interested in, this took him to many destinations around the world.
He employed anybody who would give a good days work for a good days money, many of these men were not very well educated, so at the end of a days work he would read stories and help them improve their spelling and writing skills, he also took to writing short stories for his children, and grandchildren just to fill in any spare time.
A friend introduced him to a colleague who was looking for television scripts, and the salvage stories were well received but the money was not available for what they considered would be an expensive series to make, he joins fact with fiction to make interesting, and exciting, reading.
The first, “Uncut and Unfinished” is now on Amazon Kindle, the next book that will shortly be available is “Close the Door”, this will be closely followed by “The Silver Arab”.
I have enjoyed remembering many of the incidents, and of course the characters I have met, and a lifetime of events end up as a few stories that will hopefully bring to the reader an insight into the very interesting series of events during my working lifetime.view less