Tony Parraman - Education Centre Director

My name is Tony Parraman, I was born in North Wembley, not far from the Stadium. I went to Harrow High Grammar School for boys, not a total success. After a short spell in the RAF and working in a Hardware store, and travelling around Europe in a transit van, I went back into education and studied for an OND and HND in engineering. This allowed me to get a design engineers job, working for a company that made detectors for electron microscopes. I then moved onto to work for Lucas CAV. Having worked for Lucas for 3 years I went around the world for a year, teaching English in Japan for 6 months.

When I returned from my trip, I retrained as a Design Technology teacher and taught in 2 schools in Oxfordshire. I stopped working as a teacher to look after my daughter. I then developed a small building company making furniture and fitting kitchens. I now work on the BLOODHOUND project.

Having run the shows side of the project for the last 10 months. I have changed my role on the project, I am now the Education Centre Director, this role is about developing education centres  to bring Bloodhound to pupils across the UK.

This project is a once in a life time opportunity to be involved in something that will always be part of British engineering heritage.