The idea of Legacy Films came about over a period of time, due to a series of events that clarified to me that there was need for this type of service.

In my profession as a film maker, I see and film a lot of sights. Some good, some bad, but usually all these things are here fleetingly, then gone, and that’s why my job is so important, because can I capture and preserve that special and unique moment.


My great Grandfather was born in 1889 and died aged ninety three, when I was just eighteen. One of my greatest regrets was not talking to him more about the past, but I was young, and that sort of thing wasn’t high on my agenda – I was too busy with my friends and experiencing life to be bothered about reflecting on it.

But now that I’m forty, there are so many things I would have liked to have known. There are so many things that he could have told me – after all, he lived through such changing times, two World Wars, and a world where everything was turned upside down: electricity, cars, radio & television, changing class systems, a time when where tiny villages grew into to large towns. I really wish now that I could go back and ask him all these questions, to gain the knowledge from his experiences about life, and about my own family history.

So now twenty years on, when I really want to know, he’s no longer here. When he was alive, I didn’t ask. How I regret it now. We have a box of old photographs, but without my Great-Grandfather there to explain them, they are just old pictures of strangers to me.

Even my Grandparents are now in their eighties, and ill health & strokes mean that I can’t talk to them anymore – their memories are now muddled and their speech difficult. It is not how I want to remember them, but once again I seemed to take them for granted, that they would always be there, and suddenly the people I knew have changed, and I can’t put the clock back.

Then something happened to me that suddenly made everything clear. Read about it on the INSPIRATION section.