Sarah ChambersSARAH CHAMBERS was born in 1952 into the Toogood family, a well-known Hampshire family who founded Toogood & Sons in 1815 based at Millbrook, Southampton. She qualified as a Registered Nurse in the 1970s and spent the next ten years working in Intensve Care, Accident and Emergency and Gynaecology where she became a Nursing Sister. In the 1980s she helped set up an Environmental Control Company for Horticulture. In the 1990s, taking a completely different career choice, Sarah ended her working life as a Company Secretary at a Point of Sale, design and manufacturing company based in the East Midlands, finally retiring in 2007. Sarah has settled in Alderney, the island Tommy Rose loved so much with her husband Brian. PETER AMOS was born in Redhill, Surrey in 1930 and, following National Service, he joined de Havilland Aircraft in their London Design Office in 1950 as a junior draughtsman. It was the start of a remarkable career in the aviation industry. Peter learnt to fly on DH Moth Minors and Miles Magisters, but his life’s interest in Miles Aircraft culminated with the formation of The Miles Aircraft Collection in 1993, as the Hon Gen Secretary. This was followed, from 2009, by the publication of a trilogy of books on the Miles Aircraft Story, published by Air-Britain. In 2021 Peter was pleased to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award – ‘In recognition of services to Aviation Heritage’ – from Aviation Heritage UK. Read More Read Less
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