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My favourite Charitable A Poem that childhood photo Donations cheers me up Page 3 Page 7 Page 19

My favourite childhood photo

Celebrations 2021

What my husband has been up to during lockdown Page 4 Old Worcester Royal Infirmary Worcester News and Views welcomeWorcester District Welcome to the latest Contact Details edition of the Worcester News and Views For more details about any of the events, membership and the I hope you and your families are wide range of benefits available, managing to stay safe and well during please call: these unprecedented and cruel times we find ourselves in. District Secretary: Sandra Loynes You will have noticed that we have not T: 01905 422591 sent you a new Events Diary, this is due E: [email protected] to the fact that we still don’t know as to when we will be allowed to have face to Address: face meetings again, once government 3 Windsor Avenue, guidelines allow such meetings we will Worcester of course let you know of any events WR2 5LZ that have been organised. via Zoom or a Conference Call, As you are probably aware our Annual I will update everyone on this as soon General Meeting is scheduled to take place on Saturday 27 March 2021 at as I have more information. the Barbourne Ex-Servicemen’s Club, The Moors, Worcester WR1 3ED at 2pm Yours fraternally Again as things stand we do not know whether or not we will be able to hold this Sandra meeting, if not, it will be postponed until Secretary, the end of April 2021 or held electronically Worcester District Lodge

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2 Spring 2021 My favourite childhood photo

By Elizabeth Russell

It’s August 1958 and 12 year then they would be loaded onto the old Elizabeth is helping her trailer and taken into the barn ready father with the harvest. for the threshing machine. The photo was taken by a passing photographer The oats have been cut with the / journalist and was published in binder and the sheaves put into stooks. the Birmingham Weekly Post and Continual bad weather is causing havoc. The Farmers Weekly. Using pitchforks we were knocking down the stooks and turning over the Photo from Elizabeth Russell sheaves hoping they would dry in the sun,

3 What my husband has been up to during lockdown By Pat Lawrence

My husband Kevin is very keen on making things out of junk. During lockdown he has made three styles of number plaques to identify our house, a large spitfire model which he displayed in our front garden for VE Day, spiders and their webs for Halloween and currently we have an eight foot long metal dinosaur which is entertaining all the children as they walk past our home.

4 Spring 2021 The origin of ward names at the old Worcester Royal Infirmary

Wheeley Lea Bates Charles Wheeley Lea, a member of the One medical and one surgical children’s Lea Family, of Lea & Perrins (Worcester ward as a memorial to Mr Tom Bates Sauce) bequeathed £10,000 to the hospital (the younger) Hon. Surgeon 1909-1943. at the end of the 19th century but during his lifetime he and other members of the Bates Operating Theatre family had always been generous donors. named after Mr Tom Bates (the elder) who was Honorary Surgeon to the Ganderton Infirmary 1879-1910 and died in 1916. Charles Ganderton living in Pershore was engaged in the wool trade and in Joseph Banks Pathology Dept 1893 left a legacy of £7,000 to the Joseph Banks an industrialist from the Infirmary and also £500 to Pershore Black Country living in Hallow Park Cottage Hospital. Altogether he gave was Chairman of the Voluntary Hospital £21,000 to hospitals. 1932-1937. Both he and Mrs Banks were financial benefactors. Maddox Co-founder in 1745, Bishop of Worcester Nuffield Orthopaedic Dept Diocese 1743-1759 when he died. Named after Lord Nuffield (William Morris of Morris Motors and Rushout originally a Worcester boy). An enormous Sir John Rushout M.P. (1685-1775) benefactor to all hospitals including associated with Bishop Maddox and Dr. Worcester Infirmary. John Wall in founding the Silver Street Infirmary and was a financial benefactor. By Provincial Grand Master Brother John Bradley

A bit about us… The Oddfellows is a friendly society with Branches across the UK. Through friendship and social events, we help our members get more enjoyment out of life, and offer care, advice and support in times of need. We welcome everyone of all ages. Find out more at www.oddfellows.co.uk or call 0800 028 1810.

Photo of The old Worcester Royal Infirmary Chris Allen and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

5 Worcester News and Views Celebrations Obituaries 2021 2020/2021 Sunday 25 April 2021 Memories comfort you for memories are treasures Royston Hamblett will celebrate his 80th Birthday. that time cannot destroy

Monday 28 June 2021 Raymond Cook Audrey Openshaw will celebrate her 90th Birthday. Geoffrey Hunt Sunday 15 August 2021 Norma Harrison Elizabeth Bell will Eric Tomlinson celebrate her 80th Birthday. Eric Bourne Lily Pendrey John Attwood Joan Newnham Pam Maclean

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6 Spring 2021 Charitable

Donations

Every year the Provincial Grand Master chooses a charity to which the District makes a donation, last year 2020, Bro John Bradley chose Friends of Worcester Heart Support Group to which a donation of £200 was made.

The management committee also agreed to donate £200 to Acorns Children’s Hospice and £200 to St Richards Hospice as well as £200 each to the Oddfellows Society charities H.A Andrews Fund and the Orphan Gift Fund, a total of £1,000. Why not become

If any member has a local charity that they an Oddfellows would like to be considered for a donation at the end of the year please send details pen pal friend? of the charity to the Secretary Mrs Sandra Loynes, 3 Windsor Avenue, St Johns, Worcester WR2 5LZ. With so many of us staying safe in our homes, how would you like to write a letter to another member and become a Penfellow? If the answer is yes, get in touch.

Contact Sandra on 01905 422591 or [email protected]

7 Spring 2021 Riddle Time Answers on page 9

1. It’s shorter than the rest, but 12. What is as big as an elephant, when you’re happy, you raise it but weighs nothing at all? up like it’s the best. What is it? 13. Name a 7 letter word, from which 2. You can carry it everywhere you if you take out 4 letters, you will go, and it does not get heavy. have 1 left? What is it? 14. When you need me, you throw 3. The more you take, the more you me away. When you don’t leave behind. What am I? need me, you bring me back. What am I? 4. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter, 15. What can you hold in your left and twelve remains. What am I? hand but not your right?

5. You see a boat filled with people. 16. Trevor pointed to a girl in the You look again, but this time you street and said, “She is the don’t see a single person on the daughter of my grandmother’s boat. Why? only child.” What is the girl’s relationship to Trevor? 6. What word of five letters has only one left when two letters 17. A man is driving along and sees are removed? three doors: a diamond door, a ruby door, and an emerald door. 7. A bus driver goes the wrong Which does he open first? way on a one-way street. He passes the cops but they don’t 18. What is at the beginning of stop him. Why? eternity and at the end of time, is in every race, but is always 8. What is at the end of a rainbow? last in line?

9. How many bricks does it take 19. If there are three cups of sugar to complete a building made and you take one away, how of bricks? many do you have?

10. A rooster lays an egg at the very 20. What exists when one person top of a slanted roof. Which side has it but ceases to exist when is the egg going to roll off on? another person gets it? 11. Where can you finish a book without finishing a sentence?

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Oddfellows spirit shines throughout Friendship Month 2020

Friendship Month events, Zooming across the country to looked very link up with members and guests all over different this the UK! We’ve picked out a selection of year, with many our favourite pictures from September, of our events held to share with you a little warmth and online, or restricted to a maximum happiness during these cold and difficult of six people meeting face-to-face. days. We know how important face-to-face However, we couldn’t be more proud events are to our members and as soon of the way that the Oddfellows spirit as Branches are able to safely hold shone through, as we once again these again, we will let you know. celebrated the power of friendship. If you have any pictures from an We saw Branches organising COVID-secure Oddfellows event that you’d like to walks and outdoor picnics, making the most share with us, feel free to tag us in of the last bit of sunshine. Lots of Branches them on Facebook! We’re at also turned their hands to organising virtual www.facebook.com/OddfellowsUK

Ipswich Oddfellows celebrate the launch of a new Friendly Bench, Boston and Lincoln Oddfellows plant some seeds of friendship with their potted plants, Derbyshire Peak Oddfellows host a picnic in the park, Stockport and Combermere Oddfellows network with a Zoom guest talk from local radio stars and Bradford Oddfellows enjoy a stroll along the canal.

11 Society News Issue 12 A year like no other…

2020 has been a year unlike any I’ve experienced before. In March, we entered our first lockdown. Among many others, it placed restrictions on how we could spend time with friends and family, make visits to loved ones in hospitals and care homes, and even how we all earn our living.

Most devastatingly, many people were held back from saying a proper, supported farewell to those friends and family members who passed. My heart goes out to anyone who has lost someone Being there for each other special in the recent months. I know I hope that if you needed help this year, from personal experience how difficult you received it. I know that the staff and it is, so if you need any comfort or volunteers in our Branches have worked help please remember to lean on us. flat out to make sure members know they have someone to turn to. They've made Coming together thousands of calls and sent thousands of It’s human nature to come together in emails to check in with members and see a time of crisis – to squeeze a hand, to if any help is needed. This has meant offer a shoulder to cry on, to hug, or to that many members were able to access simply sit side-by-side. However, despite critical food and medical supplies, as it all, we are finding ways around things, well as financial and emotional support. as best we can. Nothing will ever stop So, if anything is troubling you, us resourceful Oddfellows from giving please make sure you get in touch. comfort and support to each other and those in desperate need. Keeping spirits lifted This year, I've witnessed compassion I’ve seen some incredible innovation to and human kindness on a scale I’ve keep spirits lifted and people connected. never known within the Society before, We’d only hosted a few online events and this has really lifted me on my here and there before 2020, but we’re difficult days. now broadcasting talks, quizzes, and even fitness sessions, straight into people’s front rooms almost daily. I know online

12 Society News Issue 12 events won’t ever replace getting together seven-year-old Effie Bowman. Our in person, but they’re a wonderful way Society is powered by the hard work and to make sure we can still keep in touch, selflessness of such wonderful members. safely. I do hope you try one if you haven’t Huge congratulations to them and all already. I’ve also been kept in the loop who were nominated. Shortlisting these on so many unexpected acts of kindness awards is such a difficult task, but it’s an from members and Branches, such as absolute joy to know that we have so many quizzes and puzzles being posted through members out there living and breathing letterboxes, and afternoon tea hampers our motto of friendship, love and truth. and flowers being dropped off on members’ doorsteps. Such small A truly special family gestures make a huge difference to Looking forward to 2021, please try people, so if there is anything you can and stay positive. We have news of a do to keep this going, then please do. vaccine, and therefore hope that we Kindness is infectious. can be back together again, and that we can resume our daily lives with less fear, Helping others difficulty and uncertainty. Oddfellows have always looked further than their own front door when it comes I‘ve always known this, but the events to charitable giving, and this year was of 2020 have confirmed just how caring, no exception. In spring, a nationwide supportive, generous, friendly, and appeal to raise critical funds for The resourceful our Oddfellows family is. Silver Line and the National Emergencies I am immensely proud to be a member Tr ust resulted in a donation of £19,210. of something so incredibly special and It helped some of those hardest hit by purposeful. I do hope you feel the same. the coronavirus pandemic. £7,600 was Please accept my very warmest wishes also raised and sent overseas to help for a happy and healthy New Year. Australian people to rebuild their lives Until we’re all able to meet together following the 2019/2020 bushfires. freely again, let’s stay in touch. We’re always here if you need us. We know there have been countless other examples of charitable giving made Take care, stay safe and stay well. by members and Branches this year, so Yours always in friendship, thank you for helping where you can, and being wonderful ambassadors for Jane Nelson our Society. I would also like to give a CEO, the Oddfellows special mention to this year’s four Making a Difference Award winners, members Margaret Wells, Barry Bedford, Bruce Nicole and our youngest to date,

13 Society News Issue 12 Lupus research pushes through pandemic

2020 has seen our second instalment of the HA Andrews Memorial Fund given to the research team at the Lupus Trust. The £28,000 donation supports the day to day running of the team, which includes Bekki Velounias, who is currently working towards completing her PhD through her research with the Lupus Trust.

The team is looking into what causes the breakdown of certain cells, triggering Member of Ware Branch, the autoimmune reaction in lupus. Paul, has lupus and inspired our Throughout lockdown, the team managed decision to support the Lupus to avoid too many significant setbacks, Trust over 3 years. working in the lab when they could, and analysing huge datasets when national Professor Jo Spencer, from the Lupus lockdown was enforced. Trust, says, “Bekki has been a fantastic addition to the research team, and her commitment to pushing forward with work throughout lockdown has been commendable. We’re pleased with how the research is progressing in the face of so many difficulties.”

Jane Nelson, CEO of the Oddfellows, says, “We’re so pleased to hear that the research has been able to move forward despite social restrictions. It’s been a difficult year for many, and this research is needed more than ever.”

If you would like to find out more about the HA Andrews Memorial Professor Jo Spencer with Bekki Velounias and our very large cheque! Fund, please visit the ‘Giving Back’ section of our website.

14 Social distancing can still be social Your guide to online events you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home April - June 2021 Social restrictions have meant that our usual face-to-face events had to be suspended, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get together! Our network of 121 Branches are running a huge variety of nationwide online events, and everybody is welcome to join – no matter where in the country you are. This guide lists the current regular and featured events available for you to attend. Not attended an online event yet - you don’t even need to be on the internet? Need help? Check out our ‘How to’ overleaf…

www.oddfellows.co.uk OddfellowsUK How to join a Zoom event for the first time

You will need a device that is connected to the internet with a camera and microphone (most computers, laptops, smart phones and tablets have them). 3. Getting your audio and video Don’t worry if you don’t have these, you settings right can still join an event using your landline When prompted, make sure your video and phone – you’ll be able to hear and speak audio is on – if you see a red line through the to everyone but not see them. Here’s microphone and/or camera icons, click on them some simple steps to help get you started. to activate otherwise you won’t be seen or heard! 1. Connecting to Zoom via an app or website 4. Joining an event with a landline phone You can download the free Zoom app from your You can use your landline to phone into an event app store – once you’ve ‘signed in’ and set up a – there is a charge, (please check your operator password you’ll be ready to start. Alternatively for details), but the standard rate number is you can connect to Zoom via 0330 0885830. You will be prompted to enter www.zoom.us – just click on ‘Join a Meeting’ the Meeting ID number followed by # and may and enter the ‘Meeting ID’. also be asked for a Passcode followed by # . For additional information on how to join 2. Using the ‘Meeting ID’ to join an event meetings, here’s a few useful links: The ‘Meeting ID’ is a unique set of numbers listed with the event information in this leaflet - https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/ you need to enter these once you’ve logged onto articles/201362193-Joining-a-meeting Zoom (either via the app or website). For some events you may have to pre-register with the event https://www.ageuk.org.uk/bp-assets/ organiser and/or enter a ‘Passcode’. globalassets/trafford/how-to-use-zoom- for-the-first-time.pdf Monthly events Frequency/time Event Meeting ID Passcode Contact 3rd Mon 11am Coff ee in the 848 9002 1785 493398 [email protected] Virtual Potting Shed 4th Mon 4pm Zingo Bingo 542 724 7603 - [email protected] 1st Tues 2pm Brainiest Brain Fun Quiz 231 522 2288 1810 [email protected] 1st Tues 2pm Word Games and Chat 542 724 7603 - [email protected]

2nd Tues 2pm Busy Fingers, Crafts and Coff ee 542 724 7603 - [email protected] 2nd Tues 4pm Beetle Drive 542 724 7603 - [email protected] 2nd Tues 7.30pm Games, quizzes and more 860 2803 8495 - [email protected] Weekly events Below are events that occur every week - for a full description visit www.oddfellows.co.uk/events and type “online” in the location search box or contact the local organiser listed. Time Event Meeting ID Passcode Contact Monday 10.30am Online Games - All Welcome 950 0863 2889 1810 [email protected] 2pm Chi Gung 824 6194 4085 - [email protected] 3pm Monday Music & Musing 420 044 9988 942052 [email protected] 7pm Weekly Monday Games Night 967 996 1868 - [email protected] Tuesday 4pm Art, Talks, Fun and Games 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 7pm Fun Quiz - Open to all 869 8507 8184 - [email protected] Wednesday 11am National Co ee Morning 988 3920 7187 - [email protected] 3pm Fun Quiz - Open to all 854 769 23503 - [email protected] 6pm Tai Chi 873 2888 5615 - [email protected] Thursday 10.30am Co ee Morning 949 4131 7445 1810 [email protected] 11am Easy Zumba Gold 9468 1625 757 PRE-REG [email protected] 11am Co ee Morning 798 2731 5650 - [email protected] 2pm Oddfellows Fun Thursdays 988 3920 7187 - [email protected] 7pm Weekly Quiz Night 967 996 1868 - [email protected] Friday 2pm The Weekend Starts Here! 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 3pm Friday Fun and Games 420 044 9988 942052 [email protected] Saturday 11am Fun, Quiz and Games 894 5983 8236 [email protected] Sunday 5pm Facebook Live @ 5 Quiz www.facebook.com/ [email protected] OddfellowsIpswich *please contact the event organiser to register in advance of the event

1st Wed 2.30pm Nationwide Quiz 852 9201 2067 1810 [email protected] 3rd Wed 2pm Sing Along 853 5928 5951 - [email protected] 3rd Wed 7pm Talks from Tunbridge Wells 984 8355 1408 1810 [email protected]

1st and 3rd Fri 7pm Fun on Friday 542 724 7603 - [email protected]

2nd and 4th Fri 7pm Fun on Friday 845 7787 3384 - [email protected]

1st and Last Fri 10.30am Corona Club Co ee Morning 231 522 2288 1810 [email protected] Last Sat 5pm Saturday Sing Along 967 996 1868 - [email protected] 3rd Sat 7pm Saturday Night Fun 460 928 7642 1810 [email protected] Featured events Featured events are usually one-offs – they may be repeated but not necessarily weekly or monthly. As with the other listed events, you can find out more about them via www.oddfellows.co.uk/events or by contacting the event organiser. Date/Time and Event Meeting ID Code Contact April 2 2pm Marie Curie Charity 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 3 3pm Easter Fun Afternoon 872 9621 0277 [email protected] 9 10.30am Social Prescribers 940 0419 6205 [email protected] 9 2pm The Great Unwatched - 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] Bob Sinfi eld 13 4pm The Carry on Films and their Stars 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 14 2pm The Contrast of China 853 5928 5951 [email protected] 14 7pm Charity Schools in York 894 5983 8236 [email protected] 15 7pm A Question of Taste? - 829 8042 3134 1810 [email protected] Henderson’s Relish 16 2pm RSPB 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 21 2pm Sing Along 896 1081 9201 [email protected] 22 7.30pm Peculiar Words and Phrases 835 7286 6270 1810 [email protected] 23 10.30am Nutrition and Wellness Talk 916 0511 4104 [email protected] 28 2pm Discovering Family History 853 5928 5951 [email protected] May 5 2pm And So To Ted 853 5928 5951 [email protected] 5 7pm My Derbyshire Life’ 821 0037 5056 200051 [email protected] 7 2pm Dead and Breakfast - Bob Sinfi eld 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 11 4pm From Phil Silvers to Sergeant Bilko 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 19 2pm Sing Along 896 1081 9201 [email protected] 25 4pm Skeletons in the Cupboard 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 27 7.30pm Winston Churchill “I’ll be 847 8664 4646 1810 [email protected] sober in the morning” June 1 4pm Oddfellows Membership Benefi ts 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 8 4pm The Lives and Music of 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] The Everly Brothers 11 2pm Blasts from the Past 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 18 2pm John Scott Cree’s 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] Christmas Special 22 4pm Your Hundred Best Tunes 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected] 29 4pm 60s Karaoke 910 7968 6020 1810 paul.fi [email protected]

More online events are added every week! If you’d like the latest online event listing, email your Secretary or Social Organiser with the subject line ‘Please send the online events list’. You can also receive the latest Oddfellows news straight to your inbox. Just make sure your Branch Secretary has your up-to-date email address or call our Membership team to check on 0800 028 1810. You can opt out at any time by contacting your Branch Secretary or [email protected]. We’ll never share your details with any third party without your consent. A Poem that cheers me up Sent in by Beryl Davis MBE My Get-Up-And-Go Has Got Up And Went – Anonymous

Old age is golden, or so I’ve the whole night through. Now I heard said, But sometimes am older, my slippers are black. I wonder, as I crawl into bed, I huff to the store and puff my With my ears in a drawer, way back. But never you laugh; my teeth in a cup. I don’t mind at all: I’d rather be huffing than not puff at all! My eyes on the table until I wake up. As sleep dims my How do I know my youth is all vision, I say to myself: Is there spent? My get-up-and-go has anything else I should lay on got up and went! But, in spite the shelf? But, though nations of it all, I’m able to grin And are warring, and Congress is think of the places my getup vexed, We’ll stick around to has been! see what happens next! I get up each morning and dust How do I know my youth is all off my wits,Open the paper, and spent? My get-up-and-go has read the Obits. If I’m not there, got up and went! But, in spite I know I’m not dead, So I eat a of it all, I’m able to grin And good breakfast and go back think of the places my getup to bed! has been! How do I know my youth is all When I was young, my slippers spent? My get-up-and-go has were red; I could kick up my got up and went! But, in spite of heels right over my head. When it all, I’m able to grin And think I was older my slipper were of the places my getup blue, But still I could dance has been!

** Although Pete Seeger sang these lyrics in concert he did not write them. According to his autobiography he learned that the writer was a newspaper man. He contacted the author to offer him credit and royalties for the song but the man refused both wishing to remain anonymous. Pete Seeger claims to be the only one who knows the true identity of the author. ** Oddfellows Members: Do you need help?

None of us know what is around the corner… Local Care and Welfare Support To request contact from a Welfare Visitor and for local help and information about Branch benefits and benevolence contact Sandra on 01905 422591 or email [email protected]. Oddfellows Citizens Advice Line Call 0800 0149 821* (free to callers from any landline or mobile number) Monday - Friday, 9.30am - 4.30pm Email: [email protected] Run by Citizens Advice for Oddfellows members, you can access free, confidential, independent advice on welfare benefits, money and debt issues, consumer problems, housing, fuel bills, employment issues and many other issues.

*The Oddfellows cannot provide legal advice and accepts no liability whatsoever for advice provided by Citizens Advice, which is an independent advice agency. If you have any queries about the advice you have received or wish to make a complaint then you should contact Citizens Advice directly. Citizens Advice operate a formal complaints process. Care and Welfare Helpline Call 0800 0149 822 (free to callers from any landline or mobile number) Monday to Thursday, 9.30am - 4.30pm, Friday, 9.30am - 4pm Email: [email protected] Run by the Oddfellows Care and Welfare Department, you can access information and guidance on issues such as accessing health and care services, supported housing, support for carers, and planning for later life. The helpline will try and identify any Oddfellows benefits or services in the community which may be of help to you.

Visit our website page at www.oddfellows.co.uk/benefits/care for care and welfare information