Hello Reg, Well, I guess now we’re all in the same boat! Maybe that makes my musings less helpful, but it may make them more relevant. Who knows? (Click here, or anywhere on the picture below) This is a Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation I've created which loads automatically...
I was out doing a little shopping yesterday and when I saw the shelves of paper products, eggs and meat empty, or almost empty, they reminded me of my time during the Second World War in England. The only things missing were the ration books...
Susan had been unwell for some time, and was in Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Norwich with her husband Paul Simmonds and her two sons when she sadly died on 22 March 2020. Susan worked in HMSO Publishing 1995-97 before starting her own Publishing Business in Norwich, as...
Reg, Here are a couple of pictures from two recent gatherings. The annual HMSO Mill Paper lunch at the Racecourse Salhouse, February. This second picture is from last Saturday at the Kings Head, Bawburgh. Rod and his sister Jenny joined Wendy Curtis, Sue Bull and Karen Ibisill....
The sad news that Jeanne has died, following recent periods of hospitalisation in Norwich, came via Cecil Hughes. Jeanne joined HMSO Sovereign House as a typist on 19 December 1977. She progressed to Personal Assistant to several members of Directing Staff including Office Services, where Alan...
John Cripps has unearthed this photograph of some fine upstanding (well, two are sitting) young HMSO Technical Staff in sporting mode. Probably pre-activity given the lack of exhaustion on the faces of Messrs Marchant, Houston, Cripps, Holley and Justice. No date given, but their combined ages as...
The sad news that John died on 9 January 2020, following a series of strokes, came from an old school-friend. John was living in Norwich, having moved to Norwich from London with the CEPA (Printers' Accounts) advance party in 1967. He joined HMSO in 1962, and...
Dear Reg Walker I have stumbled across your site and am thrilled to have done so. My dad was James Victor Weller, known as Vic Weller and also known as Sam Weller. We transferred up to Norwich from London in 1969/70 I believe. We moved into the...
A CSSC group visit to BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir at Neasden on Saturday 15 Feb saw the gathering of a few HMSOldies, namely Barbara and Brian Cockram, Pauline and Kevin White and Helen George. Storm Dennis did not deter us although we were met by quite...
The sad news that John died, following a short illness, on 2 February 2020 has been confirmed by a notice in the Norwich Evening News giving funeral arrangements. John joined HMSO in October 1962, and when I first met him in Atlantic House he was EO...