Born in 1960 in a small village in Lincolnshire, originally left handed he became right handed at primary school having had his hand tied behind his back!
A time served blacksmith he moved into engineering and ran his own company for twenty seven years before shutting down to become manager at another company. An overactive mind led to him to becoming a part time inventor with one granted patent and several others on the way. Married to Carmen between them they have four girls and a boy and at the last count ten grandchildren.
A keen motor cyclist since becoming sixteen he still rides now and is also a scuba diving instructor. Up until downsizing their house they enjoyed taking on English bull terriers with an aim to re-homing them although very few moved on!
Barry Coy was born into privileged life, a wealthy family, private education but all that changed with the death of his father, suddenly, with no money, his life took a major change, forced to move up north with his mother he suddenly experienced the harsher side of life.
