THE CARVERY Home This is my home in electric nowhere land. If you came here looking for a slice of roast beef, I'm sorry to have let you down. If on the other hand you'd like to find out about a chunk of English beef who's also Britain's best "I'm waiting for my big break" character actor, then welcome to you. Welcome either way. I'm Jon Carver. 54 and a very proud Brummie. Picture by Angus Deuchar <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ss.webring.com/navbar?f=j;y=brumbear;u=defurl"></script> <noscript><center><table bgcolor=gray cellspacing=0 border=2 bordercolor=red> <tr><td><table cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td align=center> <font face=arial size=-1>This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit <a xhref="http://ss.webring.com/navbar?f=l;y=brumbear;u=defurl"> here</a>.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></center></noscript>                  Want the history? Aged 43 I walked away from a career in the UK motor industry, to live with the love of my life Carol in Bedford north of London. Carol encouraged me to persue my dreams, so I hung up my welding torch, spoons and dollies and swapped them for books and studies. I went first of all to De Montfort university, where I obtained a 2:1 honours degree in Drama and English. I  was then accepted on my first audition to the prestigious Oxford Schoolof Drama. The result of all that is that aged 48, I turned professional and have been working hard ever since. My first tv contract came less than 2 months after leaving school and the C.V. has been growing all the time. You can check out my CV and see for yourself. But among the many credits that I'm proud of is the fact that I am now the longest serving casting on BBCs DOCTORS. I have played the police custody sergeant ever since the first series. Not one to hang about waiting for someone to tell Speilberg my phone number, I am currently wrapped up in writing a major historical telly drama Like a lot of othe rbaby boomers, I grew up becoming cheesed off with the "what we did for you lot in the war" routine fromthe older generation. Again though like most sensitive and sensible baby boomers, I have also come to recognise that our generation has frankly made a total mess of the freedom won at so massive a cost by that older generation. A MIDLANDS TOWN is my attempt to set right a record that needs highlighting to a new generation and a wider public. Following on from the first bombing raid in August 1940, the uk government served a "D" notice on the City of Birmingham, preventing any news coverage from ever naming the city directly. So vital was the City of my birth to the war effort that it was only ever reffered to as "A Midlands Town". Surely Hitler would have known the sheer scale of Luftwaffe destruction, but despite some excellentwork by bloggers and many emeinent local historians, the story is little known outside of Brum. I am convinced that people need to know their history and I'm further convinced that the best way to teach is by the use of popular drama. The true stories of Brummies who carried on bulding Spitfires, Lancasters and guns and ammo despite being bombed out of their rest night after bloody night is amazing and deserves to be told and seen by a wider audience. The stories of thousands of ordinary brummies will be told through the voices of several fictional families, who will interact with real life characters. Many of them larger than life like Alex Henshaw MBE, the pre war record breaking flyer who served his war flying Spitfires and Lancasters from The Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory as they underwent the first flights. The stories are shocking and mad. crazy and sad. Brummies are a hardworking often much maligned bunch and their story will make you cry and laugh in equal measure and in Alex Henshaw's own words, give you an insight into " The British Race at their very best" Iam indebted in my work to Carl Chin professor of local history at Birmingham university;himself a larger than life bloke and a fine and passionate Brummie who is also a prolific author and broadcaster on all things Brummie. Daniel Scott Davies of The RAF museum Hendon. Micheal Hail of The Castle Bromwich  Aero society. Dorothy Bailey ( Now 88) and an ex Castle Bromwich seamstress and not least by the great man himself Alex Henshaw MBE who still holds the London-Cape_LOndon solo record and who is determined and as passionate as I am that this story be told. I have oodles of stuff to turn to but I am always looking for more. I am especially keen to hear from anyone with anecdotes re CastleBromwich aero, Joseph Lucas, BSA, Kynochs and Eddystone radio. Not only that, but I would love to hear from my fellow professionals especiall y with offers of work, but just as importantly to hear from fellow unknown and known Brummie actors who think they may like to work with me on A MIDLANDS TOWN For representation please contact  the lovely    Amy Ireson     The narrow road company     22, Poland Street     London W! email   amy@narrowroad.co.uk telephone   0207   434  0406 E mail me  carvery@zoomshare.com and  JOHN@johnbarton6.wanadoo.co.uk If you are the owner of this site: You can start editing your web site by clicking here. Forgot your zoomshare username or password? Get it here.