Tim Coghlan tells the story of how he faced being made redundant at a stockbrokers after the 1987 Black Monday crash, and went on to turn around a bankrupt marina for canal boats in Braunston in central England

This video is part of the ‘Life after the City’ series. As the axe falls across London’s financial sector and redunancies increase, the FT’s new series presents a fascinating range of people who have moved on from jobs in the City, willingly or not. Find the other videos here.