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. You know all the other rogues. An enjoyable…
Author: Robert Stutely
Jeanette Edith Wilkin 1932–2020
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 Cole remembers her ready wit, vibrant personality and helpful…
10 March 2020 – Sports Tech
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 of 1 March 2020 would have been 379,…
John James Brooker 1932–2020
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 after working in CEPA he was promoted to Technical…
26 February 2020 – From Carole Durrant (nee Weller)
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 Netherwood Green (no 92 or 93 I believe)…
15 February 2020 – HMSOldies and the Hindu Temple (apologies to Indiana Jones!)
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 heavy squalls later in the day. We had a…
John Butler 1940–2020
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 on one of the S5 Office Machinery Sections in…
Roy Edward Marchant 1934–2019
The sad news that Roy died, ‘in the good and caring hands of NNUH,’ on 19 December 2019 came from his wife Hazel. Roy joined HMSO Atlantic House as a Printing Officer in November 1965 and moved to Norwich with Print Finance (CEPA) upon dispersal. Following promotion he moved to Tech, becoming involved in the…
Peter Branfield 1929–2019
A call on 12 December 2019 to Ken Arnoldi from Peter’s son Nick brought the sad news that Peter had died, just four months after his wife Ursula. Peter joined HMSO in 1962 and remained for the next 23 years. In his own words: ‘I was teaching and finding that teaching was not for me,…
Michael Edward Morrison 1935–2019
The sad news that Mike died on 8 November 2019 came to us from his widow Ann via Janice and Alan Pawsey. Mike joined HMSO in September 1965 as a Binding Officer, eventually to work in PP at the Publications Centre as a Printing and Graphics Officer. Philip Marriage adds: This is sad news for…