The Authors

Gordon Heald                               Tony Heyes

The web site OverWyre.info was created in 2011 by Tony Heyes in order to showcase a set of historical maps drawn by his friend Gordon Heald. Gordon and Tony met in 1949, Tony was 9, Gordon 10. Gordon had grandparents living in Wyre View, Knott End on Sea. Tony's parents were Country Members of the golf club and took their family holidays in KE.

Gordon went to Manchester University and became an architect going on to design buildings in far flung places. His greatest triumph was the first tall building in the Persian Gulf. The World Trade Centre in Dubai is now dwarfed by subsequent monsters but it remains Gordon's baby. Tony's career as a scientist meant that for many years their paths did not cross - Tony's move to Australia in 1987 did not help - but they never lost touch. In later years Gordon and and his wife Penny spent more and more time at their "beech house" in Knott End rather than their London home and Tony enjoyed many visits during his frequent trips back from the antipodes.

Gordon was particularly interested in local history. In fact his family, on both sides, played a considerable part in that history. Gordon created a number of detailed historical maps of Over Wyre but never seemed to show them to anyone! Tony nagged him to let him create a web site to make the maps available to other history buffs. Thus OverWyre.info was created.

Over the years the web site grew to include other information likely to be of interest to both locals and visitors.

Gordon died in 2023 at the age of 84. Earlier in the year Gordon and Tony had resolve to try to "pass the web site on" in the hope that the iformation contained therein would continue to be available. At the age of 83 Tony's eye site is failing!

Tony's obituary to Gordon can be found here.  A CV of Tony's career can be found by clicking on the image below.