[2][3][4] Craven was a pilot in World War II, flying a DeHavilland Mosquito over Germany to take photographs from an unarmed plane.

[2] The pub had a contraption made by a regular, Donald Dunnett, a one-off device which used two immiscible (cannot be mixed) fluids as an egg timer.

Craven with his wife Christine set up a company, Crestworth and then Mathmos, to produce the lamps, operating from small buildings on an industrial estate in Poole, Dorset.

Original Mathmos lamps are still made by the same company in the UK, including updated versions of their classic designs.

[citation needed] They had the rights to produce Astro Lamps and continued to manufacture in the same location, using almost the same staff, machinery and even some of the 1960s components.

[6] Astro lamp has been in continuous production for 60 years and has been handmade in Britain since 1963,[6] and is still made today by Mathmos in Poole.

[2] He lost a lot of his film archive when a tree fell on the garage in which it was stored while he was away at his apartment in Costa Natura, a naturist resort in Estepona, Spain.