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The Link Magazine • August 2001 5
Engineer comes home to work
Asa boy John Prothero used to spends hours searching out newts, crayfish and other wildlife and along the banks of Tadpole Brook. Nearly
thirty years later he is responsible for channelling the brook, making sure wildlife is protected, and building a culvert for the Wilts and Berks
Canal as part of the £14 million contract to build the Northern Orbital Road from Moredon Road to Lady Lane.
Born in 1965, John lived in to create wildlife corridors.
Haydon Wick for his first ten years "As a child I used to visit my
before his family moved to grandad in Haydon Wick village
Whitworth Road. He attended and the countryside was just be-
Pinehurst Junior School, then yond. Going past the pig farm next
Headlands School, where his fa- to the Manor pub was like explor-
ther taught technical drawing, and ing on the edge of the world.
he eventually became head boy. "It's strange to be constructing a
After A' levels John took a de- major project in an area I know so
gree in Civil Engineering at Man- well, but we will have done a good
chester University then joined job in contributing to the new en-
Edmund Nuttall in 1987 working vironment for the people who
on large constructions, including move to the houses in North Swin-
the Great Western Way in Swin- don."
don, the now demolished NATO of August. We are also putting in
command centre at Greenham the housing development access odybliss
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