Environmental techniques that Symes had developed for environmental living resulted in the 1990's series The House that Bob Built, in which a "green" dwelling was constructed at Milton Keynes [REF].
Symes was a familiar face with the German-speaking audiences, through his presentation of the Bahnorama railways films, based around German, Austrian, Swiss and occasionally re-dubbed British railway footage, produced by the Austrian-based SH-Production & Co KEG company which he co-founded.