Anthony Prosper Quiney PhD, FSA, RAI[1] (born 1935)[2] is an architectural historian, building archaeologist, writer and photographer who has lived in Blackheath for many years.
As a young boy, he was evacuated from London during the rocket attacks of 1945, to the countryside near a U.S. military airfield, where an American aircrew took him around their B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.
As a young man, Quiney performed his national service as a radar technician in the Royal Air Force, and later in life he realised a dream of piloting a restored Supermarine Spitfire.
He is the husband of Ginnie Hole; screenwriter for The House of Eliott, Casualty, The Bill, and many other television programmes.
[5] A tall man with thick white hair, Quiney is sometimes seen with his Border Collie Rex, on the heath in Blackheath or in Greenwich Park.