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When I was 18, for example, my father was involved in a £5.6m construction project in his home town of Croydon. The project was done in the name of the Duke of Edinburgh - a man who was a real estate investor. The project was to double the number of houses in the area, which included the Royal College of Art. The Duke of Edinburgh was appointed to the board, and his wife, Eleanor, was the head of the board. After a year, the Duke of Edinburgh was given the responsibility of operating the project. I started to make my way from school to university, but my dad was also the chairman of the board of Land Securities. From there, his son, Richard, took over the portfolio, which included the house of the Duke of Edinburgh. In 1973, Richard became a secretary at a local school, and when he left the school to become a director of the company, he was offered a job at the Royal College of Art. In 1977 he was appointed to the board of Land Securities, which was run by a British business man, George Robertson, a former shipbuilder who had just completed a big construction project in Norfolk. I got started on the day I moved to the West Midlands from London. It was during the war that my father was forced to leave school to join the RAF. He had already gone on to become a naval engineer and served in the Royal Navy - only to retire in 1971; he was now working at the Royal Navy's Naval Service in the Mediterranean. The job was to build a new naval base on a site in the Mediterranean and build a new shipyard there. Richard became involved in the project and after a brief stint in the air force, he took charge of the buildout. I was in the air in late 1973 with the RAF at the request of the RAF's Chief Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Pemberton, who was the head of the Air Force's naval operations. The air force had to deal with a shortfall in aircrew and the Army's Royal Naval Air Station was built. I was the only person in the RAF's air force to take part in the project, and I was in charge of the operation. The following year, Richard took up the job of director of Land Securities, and he was then an associate of the chief executive of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He was given the job of chief executive, and was then given the position of chief executive of Land Securities. After a number of years at the company he retired. I was at Land Securities for 15 years. I had been working with both Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the Royal Navy. In 1978, Richard began to realise his dream of becoming a Chartered Surveyor and he left Land Securities for a position at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in London. Richard then took up a post as chief executive of the company, and then took charge of the land company. I returned to Land Securities in 1981 - and as a general secretary of the company, I was responsible for the development of the land company, and for the service of the company. In 1982, Richard took over as chairman of the building firm, and then as CEO of the London-based firm, Land Securities. I was at Land Securities for 17 years. I had been working in the air force for the Royal Navy for several years and had been in the Navy for over 20 years. In 1982, I was appointed Director of Land Securities. In 1983, Richard began working as senior director of the London-based firm. In 1984, he took over as director of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. In 1985, I left Land Securities, and in 1987, I took over as chief executive of the company