I have been asked many times over the recent years, about the history of DeLarno's Magic Centre, especially how I first started. After leaving high school, I worked for two years at Canterbury University as a technician in the Chemistry Department, with the idea of making chemistry my profession. I was also performing magic on a semi professional basis. My father owned a Gun & Sporting shop at 16 Chancery Lane, a small lane running off Cathedral Square in the heart of Christchurch, and told me that a shop was becoming vacant at number 3, and it would be an ideal situation for a magic shop.