Rob Blann

Born and bred in Worthing, West Sussex, England on 9 February 1951, Rob Blann was educated at the town's Technical High School. In 1970 he started a garden services business which has grown into the well-established comprehensive resource that it is today. Having descended from an old Lifeboat family it was not surprising that in 1988 Rob endeavoured to obtain the old Worthing Lifeboat House to re-establish a Lifeboat Showpiece Museum there, dedicated to the history of the town's Lifeboatmen. Also in 1988 Rob Blann, a campaigning conservationist, began confronting the authorities to save Worthing's Dome Cinema from certain demolition, in a crusade which he led for 8 years. The lengthy struggle eventually proved successful, the Dome was saved, and later it won a National Lottery Grant for its restoration and regeneration.