I hope that this finds you keeping well and safe from this dreadful pandemic. This country is being ravaged by both the weather and the COVID pandemic. Every time I look at the figures for COVID in America and the world I am still amazed that the so-called “leader of the free world” and the…
Author: Robert Stutely
23 August 2021 – From Norma Groom
Hi Reg, Thanks for latest reports on everyone in HMSOldies. Trust you and family are well. We are both fine. Chris had his cataract surgery early July and his sight is 100% better than it has been for years. We were quite concerned as he only has the one eye, having lost the other one aged 11 when…
9 Jul 2021 – From Val Bailey
Hi Reg, I was sad to read that Brian Lee had passed away. It was nice to read news of Norma Groom, I often think of her. Also of the Munns, father and son. How time flies! I am OK but like us all have a number of aches and pains. Yesterday I saw (!) my…
Robert Whitley Simpson 1935–2021
The sad news that Bob has died, on 25 July 2021 as the result of a heart attack, came to us via Bob Nelson. Bob Simpson joined HMSO Edinburgh Print Division in November 1972, and continued to work in the office until retirement. James Cruickshanks adds: Reading the stories and names of those that…
Margaret Rogers 1936–2021
We received the following sad news from Sue Lea on 16 August 2021: ‘Margaret passed away on 9 August 2021 at NNUH aged 85. She joined HMSO Norwich as CO in July 1968 and worked in P&B, CEPA and, after promotion to EO in 1976, PS. She will be remembered for her determination to overcome…
Susan Crabtree 1945–2021
The sad news that Sue has died, in August 2021, came from her husband Alan via Helen George. Sue and Alan moved to Norwich from London with the 1968 dispersal, and Alan continued working in Sovereign House and St Crispins until privatisation. Sue worked for a few years, around 1969-71, as a Shorthand Typist, at…
Winifred Marjorie Wilson 1949–2021
Word that Winnie has sadly died came at the end of July 2021. Winnie grew up in Melton Mowbray, studying at Warwick University, and qualifying as a librarian before joining HMSO Norwich as an Information Officer in March 1982, working in Publications Division. Initially resident in Frostenden Suffolk, she moved to Southrepps in N Norfolk…
Keith William Evans 1936–2021
The sad news that Keith has died, at home in Norfolk on 15 July 2021, was announced in the Eastern Daily Press: Keith joined HMSO in March 1969 and worked in both Print Procurement and Production HQ.
19 Jul 2021 – From ‘English Jack’ [Keating]
I hope you have been out the last few days soaking up all that Vitamin D and that you will continue to do it for the foreseeable future! Long live global warming! Things over here are so-so. I am getting older and creakier as the days go on, but if that’s all I have to…
Mary Veronica Smith 1952–2021
The Eastern Daily Press dated 17 July carried the sad news that Mary died on 3 July 2021. Mary Conrad, as she then was, joined HMSO, in 1969, working initially in ITW and moving to Publications Division as EO.