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The co-founder in one of Howden’s oldest businesses is celebrating after gaining an honours degree aged 57.

Aquarius of Howden’s director Rick Kay’s  lifelong fascination with physics prompted him to embark on a degree course with the Open University in 2003.  Rick explains how it came about; “I had always harboured a desire to explore physics in detail.  By the time I got to 40, Aquarius bathrooms was well established and I considered that the time was right from a business perspective but I feared that I was too old to learn how to study and take notes all over again, so the idea was parked once more.”

A decade later, Rick bit the bullet and began an OU course that comprised six years of project and course work through distance learning and residential courses before graduating at London’s Barbican last month.

Of the achievement, Rick said; “I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and I’m delighted to have completed my degree.  It’s quite ironic that, having waited this long, I have now got the urge to continue learning and I plan to take a year off and then look at a research based masters.”

Rick, whose other interests include summer and winter climbing and ‘dabbling’ in music and the arts, was one of only 30 graduates from Yorkshire and one of only 300 nationwide to be awarded this prestigious degree.

The team at Aquarius has been delighting customers with its bespoke bathroom designs and installations for over 24 years.