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If You Live in Or Around Ringwood, Verwood, Ashley Heath, West 1 Ringwood Town from the Church Spire If you live in or around Ringwood, Verwood, Ashley Heath, West Moors, Ferndown, Wimborne or anywhere in between then you are in the right place to join our very friendly and informal bunch. What’s on offer? Sometimes we have meetings with speakers; other times we have mornings where members can share their memories, experiences, hobbies and even their thoughts about the NHS! There is ample opportunity to chat together, to socialise and have a cup of tea or coffee. You may meet old friends and colleagues or make new ones. You will certainly meet inter- esting like-minded people. 2 We also go on outings, some local, some further away, and meet up for a meal or maybe a garden party. One of our members was lucky enough last year to win the ballot to celebrate our 40th anniversary and represent Wessex NHSRF branches at a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. Our Chairman, Rosemary, is also Wessex Regional Coordinator for the NHSRF which gives us a chance to make our views known at the very highest level of the organisation. Some of our members visiting the Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month from 10 am to 12 noon at St Leonards and St Ives Village Hall, Braeside Road, St Leonards, BH24 2PH where there is ample free parking and easy level access for any- one with mobility difficulties. We would love to hear from you. Just give one of the numbers below a ring and we will happily tell you more about us and arrange for a friendly face to meet, greet and help you along the way. Rosemary White (Chairman) 01425 479556 Jenny Betterton (Secretary) 01202 876560 3 NHSRF December 2019—Issue 34 Hello Members We now look forward to the festivities of Christmas starting with our buffet and mega raffle on December 10th. On January 14th 2020 we have our post Christmas Luncheon at the Remedy Oak Golf Club (12 for 12.30). Sadly, we said goodbye to our colleague Terry Vincent who passed away in October and to whom we owe thanks for all his contribution to the club. Alan Redknap has written a befitting tribute to Terry on Page 2. Jenny, our Secretary, has explained in detail the necessity for an increase in annual fees next year on page 4 and we hope this will be acceptable to members. We are not the highest charging in the country but we do have increasing expenses so we hope you can take this into consideration. Please do visit the NHSRF website with lots of new information including an association with Newmarket holidays for our members. To find the website please go to www.nhsrf.org.uk, To find our branch go to Branch finder > Wessex region and scroll down to East Dorset and Ringwood Branch. The Username is Member and the Password is nhsrf-2019 if required. So from all the committee members, we wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year and we look forward to seeing you in 2020. Best wishes Janet (Editor) Page 1 Members updates and Skittles evening SKITTLES EVENING—OCTOBER 17TH Page 2 Remembering Terry Many thanks to Sue Foster our Social Secretary who Vincent by Alan organised a Skittles evening on a wet and windy evening Redknap at The Three Legged Cross Pub and Restaurant for Page 3 and 4 members and friends. A fun evening with good company and food was had by all. Chris on the A team was the Recent speakers: Sandra Simmonds, highest scorer and was awarded her ‘gold medal’ at Tony Strafford, November’s meeting Martin Stewart and (see photo on left). It Maureen Rose is hoped to have an- other Skittles evening Forthcoming events in the New Year, so do January 14th Post come along! Xmas Lunch February 11th Photos by Moo Leng J Coombes—Nature Noakes 4 Terry VINCENT June 8th1940—October 19th 2019 Our dear friend and colleague with a broad and welcoming smile, will be most sadly missed. Terry moved with his family from his birthplace of Southampton to Poole in 1942 and from an early age Terry dreamt of being an engineer. At the age of 13 Terry went to South Dorset Technical School for three years. Recognising his abilities Hamworthy Engineering offered Terry an apprenticeship and he specialised in Foundry Practice. Terry soon thrived and in 1960 won the UK Apprentice competition, coming third in the European com- petition. Further study took Terry to Wolverhampton College and the seeds were sown for a life in Foundry management. In 1964, Terry married his sweetheart Jean and Luton beckoned as the next destination on his chosen career path. Throughout the 1970s, however, the manufacturing industry was in decline. With a young family to support, and with Jean’s encouragement, a change in direction was imminent. Local Government provided the first opportunity and Terry was greatly involved in the expansion of Luton airport project. The love for Dorset never palled and the Dorset Health Authority provided the route for the family to return home where Terry was engaged in the reorganisation of the Dorset Ambulance Service which entailed the amalgamation of Poole, Bournemouth and Dorset Services. This gave Terry the opportunity to undertake studies in a variety of hospital departments and provide him with an excellent and unique insight into the workings of the NHS. In the 1980’s Terry worked on producing numerous detailed strategic plans for the Regional Health Authority and progressed to the position of Dorset District Personnel Officer. The devolution of the District services to self-governing hospital services (the fore-runner of Trusts) afforded Terry with the opportunity to take early retirement. He kept himself busy with periods of consultancy, college lecturing GP Practice management and various Church voluntary work consistent with Terry’s Christian beliefs. An avid Southampton Football Club supporter along with his sons, Terry was a prodigious sportsman himself. Achievements included being a Dorset champion athlete attaining Olympic qualifying times before an untimely injury in trials curtailed the chance of greater sporting renown. A golf fanatic, Terry was the Secretary for the Senior section of the Crane Valley Golf Club. He also captained the Ferndown Probus golf team to victory in a Probus golfing competition. In keeping with the love of the outdoors Terry was also a holder of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold award and the Queen’s Scout award. Terry and Jean loved to travel and their holidays and adventures at home and abroad were a particular highlight, much of which was shared with us fellow members through Terry’s illuminating and informative talks. Over a number of years Terry served with distinction in various committee roles for our branch including Speaker’s Secretary and Outings organiser, and he often represented our branch and the NHSRF in general across a wider forum. Our deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to Terry’s wife Jean (and our dear colleague) Jean and their sons Andrew and Matthew. Alan Redknap 5 Sandra Simmonds—Married to an Iranian. Sandra’s talk in August was the final part in her trilogy of talks which covered the time she and her Iranian Naval Officer husband returned to live in England. Her story is often harrowing with the difficulties she encountered on her journey which included her subsequent divorce, remarriage, birth of her son and the death of her second husband. She is in much demand for her talks, but good news is that she is coming back to repeat her first talk on 11th August next year. Tony Strafford — Bishops, Sex and Money Our September’s speaker entertained us with an enthralling talk from an accomplished racon- teur. A retired Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London, Tony told us of the history of the Tower of London and why and by whom it was built and how things changed over the years. His talk was peppered with amusing anecdotes from his time with visiting tourists. Martin Stewart of Stewart’s Garden Centres If anyone does put themselves forward I would be really grateful if they they if grateful really be would I forward themselves put does anyone If In October, Martin Stewart owner of Stewart’s Garden Centres in Broomhill, Christchurch and Abbey (Titchfield), gave us a talk on the family history which began in Scotland in the 18th century. Martin is 8th generation of a family which started growing forest trees. In 1859, David Stewart travelled south to Fern Down (when Ferndown was two words) to take advantage of a warmer climate. Their trees were traded world-wide and many grown in areas close to Ferndown were developed for tree growing. Transportation was helped with the building of the West Moors railway which was built in 1867 (within one year) and this afforded enough goods mainly from their garden centre busi- ness to justify the outlay. The station was finally closed in 1964. Stewarts became one of the first garden centres in the country when Percy Thrower opened their Christchurch garden centre in 1961 and 6,000 people turned up! It was the first out of town shopping centre with a coffee shop. Today, whilst selling a wide range of flowers, plants, shrubs and other garden equipment and commercial goods, Martin tells us they need to keep up with demands and the need to diversify. Catering is now 25% of their income and they are building a state of the art automated plant growing complex at Broomhill due to be completed next year.
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