This site is a tribute to Peter Sykes, who was born in Batley on 4th September 1934, the son of Annie and Fred Sykes, and passed away peacefully at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on 2nd March 2023 after a short illness. After National Service in the RAF he joined L.B. Holliday & Co. a dyestuffs manufacturer in Huddersfield. He met Jean, the love of his life, while on holiday in Blackpool and they married in 1958. Having moved to ICI he gained a degree equivalent qualification in chemical engineering 'the hard way' at night school. His talents were spotted by the ICI Training Department and he moved into personnel training and then eventually left ICI to join Development Dimensions International as a management development consultant. He is much loved by family, friends and former colleagues and will always be remembered by them all as 'a lovely man'.