In 1986 he joined "Changing Places", a community and environmental arts project, as a stone carver – leaving in 1988.
He was commissioned to create a statue of Peter Pan to stand outside Great Ormond Street Hospital[1] which was given the rights to the character by creator J. M. Barrie.
[2] In 2005 he added a scale statue of Tinker Bell to the one of Peter Pan, unveiled by The Countess of Wessex.
[3] Byron-O'Connor's research into World War I led to him designing sets for BBC2's The Trench;[4] BBC1's The Somme - From Defeat to Victory;[5] and the Discovery Channel's Mud, Blood, and Tarmac.
Whilst working on the set for BBC One's The Crafty Tricks of War he was asked to co present the series with Dick Strawbridge.