Ian left school at 16, working as an apprentice with a local firm of bookbinders and through day release, completed the City & Guilds in hand bookbinding in 1981. He spent the next nine years working at the Austin Rover car plant, as a Trainee Instructor unti 1989, returning to bookbinding in 1989 -1994 working for an Oxford based bindery. Temple Bookbinders evolved over the years until l 2009 where we relocated to the purpose built hand bookbindery at 12 Stephen Road, Headington, Oxford. In 2011 his interest in rare children’s books and modern first edition developed into Temple Rare Books; a bookshop housed within the same premises.