ISSUE 176 AUTUMN 2016

MAKE THE FUTURE DAHL'S DAYS AT SHELL • HAVEN REMODELLED SPA LINDA'S EDITORIAL

AUTUMN 2016

Dear Readers, sculptor Patricia Bannister, many of whose Elsewhere we have your regular wonderful creations were inspired by her favourites: Tina Gilchrist's insightful updates Welcome to your SPA News autumn travels with Shell, and on p19 we say on all matters financial on p11-13; a round- edition. As I write, the leaves are beginning hello to Roy Emery, who's designed and up of recent reunions and branch news, to fall from the trees and I'm seriously built an amazing model railway replica of along with some great photos, on p24-25; debating that age-old autumnal conundrum: Shell Haven. Time Out offers on p22-23, including the when to let your resolve crumble and reach With regards to what's happening in chance to win a pair of tickets for the great for the central heating 'On' button! It's the company, we welcome the new Shell new Carravagio exhibition at the National going to be any day now, Readers, I'm UK Chair, Sinead Lynch, on page 9, Gallery. quite sure ... while on page 10 we hear about a new Thanks as usual for your lovely letters; The cover of this issue is one of the initiative for the company's retail outlets: please keep them coming. Suggestions for great photos that were taken at Shell's Welcome to Shell. future articles are always very welcome, recent Make the Future event, which by How many of you knew that beloved too. The deadline for material for the winter all accounts was an outstanding success author, Roald Dahl, began his working issue of your magazine is 28 November. (see p9). life with Shell? As this year would have Enjoy the lovely colours of autumn that In this issue Ardella Jones bring us news been his 100th birthday, we take a look at should be upon us very soon! about two of our members' retirement those early years and read about how his activities. On p14 we meet artist and postings helped inspire some of his most Warm regards, famous works. Linda.

SPA BENEFITS These are some of the regular benefits, to the best of our knowledge. Some may be not CONTACTS always be available . You may need to show your membership card and/or quote SPA.. Our message, however, is always to “shop around” Editor Details on the SPA website: www.pensions.shell.co.uk/spa Linda Fernley Email: [email protected] INSURANCE Home, motor, travel: SPA Secretary Sutton Winson 0800 783 3723 [email protected] Helen Page www.suttonwinson.com/SPA 50plus Insurance (Bluefin) 0800 195 8002 Tel: 020 7934 5129 Health, Bupa 0800 600 500 quote 9147 Email: [email protected] Health, HMCA 01423 866985 www.hmca.co.uk/shellpa RAC breakdown 0800 096 6836 quoting EBS001 will be discontinued 2016 Assistant Secretary Denplan 0800 838 951 www.denplan.co.uk Lynn Forsdyke Tel: 020 7934 5137 FINANCE Email: [email protected] Foreign exchange, UK Forex https://www.ukforex.co.uk/?pid=1344 Fin. Advice, Wealth at Work 0800 049 2011 and quote advice (previously Affinity) SPBA Treasurer State benefits, CBG Solutions 01423 819452 Ian Landeryou Pensions Team helpline: 0207 934 1190 Tel: 020 7934 5131 Email: [email protected] LEISURE Woodbank (Aberdeen) 01224 884700 Lensbury Breaks 020 8614 6444 SPA, 40 Bank Street, Lensbury membership 020 8614 6466 London E14 5NR Fred.Olsen Cruises 0800 0355 110 www.fredolsencruises.com www.pensions.shell.co.uk/spa quote SPA10 www.facebook.com/shell.spa.news Saga cruises 0800 051 3355 www.saga.co.uk/cruises Cruise & Maritime Voyages 0845 3752318 quoting 'SHELL01' & South Quay Travel P&O, Cunard & Princess Cruises 0843 374 2288 quoting '000GEN'

2 | SPA NEWS SPA LETTERS

THE BEST ‘PENSIONER FREEBIE’ EVER? PETER HORROCKS

I was recently invited to the wedding of the son of an old friend of mine in Hong Kong. During the stay in the ex-Colony, I took the time to visit Macau. Apart from its famous Casinos, it transpired that Macau is home to the highest ‘Bungy jump’ in the world, a fall of 233m (780 ft) from the top of the Macau Tower. I decided to go up the Tower for the view and to watch some of the jumpers and when I bought an entry ticket was asked my age. I thought there might be an age restriction for entry to the high tower for insurance purposes, so asked why she wanted to know my age.

Astonishingly, I was told that if I was over 65 the Bungy jump from the top of the tower, normally priced at almost $4,000 Macau patacas (£370), was free! Since this was my 66th birthday, and I was on the other side of the world, it seemed an opportunity too Image 1: Being prepared good to refuse. The day was bright and free of any mist or rain, so Image 2: About to jump with camera on wrist the views over the ex-Portuguese colony were magnificent. Image 3: Aghhh ... Would I recommend this to other pensioners? Absolutely! It was a The whole experience was run extremely professionally and the brilliant experience. Congratulations to AJ Hackett, owners of the Jump Team were very friendly, calming and helpful. Most of the enterprise, for offering a truly tangible and expensive experience team were Philippinos, but the cameraman was from Swansea. free to Pensioners. The jump itself was seriously invigorating and nowhere near as traumatic as one might expect, although the photo taken as I I admire your adventurous spirit Peter by my legs go to jelly just launched myself off the platform might not indicate this! looking at the photos! Ed.

HOOPLA! YVONNE A. CHAPPELL

I recently came across this photo in a 1982 Chairman's Bulletin. The caption reads: "Plastic goods became part of everyday life, here demonstrated in the hula-hoop being tried out by Shell girls in London in 1958." At that time I was working at Crosby Square, but can't fathom out where the photo was taken; I wonder if anybody recognises the location or any of the Shell 'girls'?

SPA NEWS | 3 SPA LETTERS

MORE BADER BANTER ANNE FERGUSON

In 1965 my husband, Harry Ferguson, was a pioneer knew all the workings of a Hovercraft that was difficult but he Hovercraft pilot on the Clyde in Scotland working for a private managed it. When alone with Douglas Bader again Harry entrepreneur. Faced with probable redundancy Harry contacted asked who the person was asking these ridiculous questions. the then British Hovercraft Corporation, who he knew well from Bader replied "Should you join us dear boy he will be your having trained with them on the Isle of Wight, to ask them to Managing Director." It was Pat Thomson, with whom later, as put forward his name should anyone be looking for a hovercraft his Hovercraft Pilot, Harry had a very good rapport. pilot. Harry's Hovercraft License is number 9 in the world; one of the first to be issued after the BHC pilots themselves. After first refusing the job because the salary offered was too low, a better offer was made and Harry accepted. We On the day that Harry was in London discussing a job with first ascertained where on the globe Brunei was then packed Hover Lloyd, a letter arrived from Shell offering him a job our barang, four year old and baby son and shipped off to running the Hovercraft for Brunei Shell. At his interview at faraway Borneo. We jokingly referred to Harry as the Head Shell Centre he met the Director of Shell Aviation, Douglas Hunted of Borneo! Due to the increasing distances of offshore Bader, whose first words while shaking hands were "Baader's rigs, Brunei Shell's hovercraft experiment didn't last but Harry the name old boy, Baader". Anyone who called him "Baider" did. He joined Aviation Department at Anduki and spent the was in deep trouble! next 28 years with SIPC.

Harry was shown a presentation film of the Hovercraft working Douglas Bader, in his capacity as Shell Aviation Director, made offshore in the Brunei oilfields, and was told there would be periodic visits to Brunei where he was always royally treated a gentleman in a seat at the front who would interject many and, no matter what plans for an evening one may have had, times with perhaps seemingly irrelevant questions but, no if summoned to dinner with him, no amount of excuses were matter what, Harry was not to say a word. For someone who accepted. We simply went!

'AVE YOU GOT A LIGHT, FIFTY YEARS ON ID BOY?! EVAN HILL STEVE CRANE Re Jim Clark's photo on p6 in the last issue, the group of heavily over-coated gents in 1966 was taken at Dyce Airport, Aberdeen At the museum where I volunteer (Burwell Museum, near long before it became something grander. I used to fly out of it Cambridge), we were recently donated the tin shown in the in Dakotas to Wick and other North airports. Frank Burnett is on attached photos. It currently contains mostly chess pieces, the extreme left of the photo. The other gents are I presume Shell but the original contents were much more interesting – small people (see p6 for further identification, Ed). capsules filled with genuine Shell spirit for refuelling petrol lighters. These must have been some of the smallest quantities in I'd been based in Aberdeen at one time during my 22 years which you could buy Shell petrol! in Real Estate, and I used Frank as an agent acting for us in property matters. I took early retirement in 1977 when based in I must say, I’d never seen anything like this before, and I would Glasgow and almost instantly was back in Aberdeen, as Frank be very interested to hear if any readers know when it dates asked me to work for him there. That time in the early 80s was from: I would guess 1930s to 1950s? It's certainly in pretty a period of non-stop demand by oil and related businesses for good condition for its age. offices, warehousing and domestic housing ... a hectic time, unlike now, I'm afraid. Can anyone shed any light on these lovely old tins? Ed

4 | SPA NEWS FAR AWAY IN THE COLD NORTH SEA ... STANDS A LONELY OLD RIG CALLED THE ‘LAZY A’ ... DAVE LINDSAY

I served on the Brent Alpha 9 Lazy 'A', (A crew) from the mid-1977 hook-up until the first oil was produced, and then joined Shell and worked on the platform until my early retirement in 1999. I now live in Vancouver, Canada, and work for a research company that deals a lot with Shell Canada. During my time on the Brent Alpha I started a children's book on an Atari – it was 25 years ago! It was about the crew I worked with, and inspiration came from an apprentice we had who was always happy; the character Dougy in the book is based on him, and the rest of the crew followed. When PCs came along, I had to convert all my drawings, which took some time. I finally finished and had it printed in 2014. Most of the books have been sold in Canada with a few going to friends in UK. I lost touch with most of the crew I worked with and I thought the SPA News might be a good way to get in touch again.

If anyone remembers Dave and would like to get in touch, we can supply his email address. The Tales of Lazy 'A' is available on Amazon Kindle or in print from Dave – Ed.

CHEERS! ECONOMY OF GRAHAM PEARCEY WORDS! HUGH QUICK Thank you for Helen Page’s fascinating article about changes in the workplace. Some changes (disappearance of tea ladies, no free lunch, open plan offices, hot-desking, etc.) I wrote to the Daily Telegraph recently either occurred in my time or were already being mooted as I left. But what struck me most saying that people who actually went forcibly was the Company’s changing attitude to alcohol. to Baghdad while Saddam was in power must soon become extinct and When I joined I was whisked onto a Shell UK induction programme – with visits to Shell that I wanted to report what I saw. They Haven, Buncefield Pipeline terminal, etc. Everywhere we went we were royally fed and printed it! I went at the request of Shell ‘watered’! Shortly afterwards, I went on the Group/Industry Orientation Course that (it must have been while I was working included visits to Pernis and an ocean-going tanker in the Rotterdam Europoort. Again, in the Middle East Regional Organisation wherever we went we were treated to interesting talks, a tour of the site – and a banquet in London). I was asked to advise on with generous quantities of booze. And always at lunchtime! One delegate quipped, whether it would be safe to send a Shell “Evidently the only absolutely mandatory skill for anyone joining Shell is that they can hold representative to live there. I advised their drink!” that it would, and one was sent. I found out that Shell actually owned a rather I subsequently spent a few years providing IT for the Heating and Agriculture Division, grandiose but dilapidated house there, whose staff (when they were in the office) seemed as often as not to be ‘entertaining’ either which was being looked after by a third parties or people from other Shell departments. This inevitably involved lunchtime pleasantly eccentric East German woman visits to restaurants along the Strand where again the alcohol flowed. And all this time appointed as Shell's agent. The Shell Shell Mex House had its own pub (the ‘Rose’) in the courtyard, open lunchtimes as well as couple who were sent there lived in it evenings. Wine was even served in the staff canteen on the day of the Christmas Lunch, and it was my duty to ring them every after which several departments held parties in their own offices in the afternoon. week to enquire how they were getting on. I usually spoke to the man, who was So imagine my surprise on reading that if someone goes out for one alcoholic drink French and typically voluble. His wife, at a lunchtime these days, not only are they not allowed back into the office but they however, was Dutch and one week she can’t even work the afternoon from home: they must take it as leave! It seems to me that answered the telephone; to my enquiry the company’s gone from one extreme to the other. There must be a ‘happy medium’ she replied, "Why are you asking me, somewhere? you've been here, you know what it's like." I thought it was a good example of Thanks Graham – I'm sure many readers will recognise the picture you paint! However, the difference between French and Dutch. I don't think Shell is alone in the strict attitude it takes towards alcohol these days. Things certainly 'ain't what they used to be'! – Ed

SPA NEWS | 5 SPA HELEN'S PAGE

Flying back after a blissful week in Umbria, I was a little downbeat about the prospect of shorter days, when I picked up a copy of the in-flight magazine. My spirits were lifted by an article proclaiming, “Forget millennials, the future is all about the new perennials”.

Apparently, there has never been a better time to grow old. As the younger generation is set to be worse off than their parents, the over-55s account for more than half of UK households with assets of over £500,000. Maybe we don’t quite fit in that category, but, compared with the young ones, we are cash rich, time-rich and fitter than ever. Businesses are not slow to pick up on the trend: as a result, we're no longer the 'grey pound', but more 'sterling silver', as retailers move towards courting this swelling generation. And we are more discerning than our parents, so quality of service and products continues to rise. Ten years ago, the Economist ran a story headlined, “Over 60 and Overlooked”. I would be interested to hear if you think the playing field has changed for the better.*

And so, I landed with a spring in my step, ready to face the business of autumn.

*Thanks to Henrietta Thompson, British Airways Highlife, for the facts and figures.

Earlier this year, members elected Glynis Paton onto the National Committee. She survived her induction and first committee meeting, so I asked Glynis to introduce herself. Scottish members may know her already. “After a 33-year challenging and rewarding career within Finance and Tax Glynis, in Las Vegas, appears to be spending her 'Grey Pound' in the Upstream Business, I retired in July 2014. I am a mother of two sons who keep me grounded and give me a positive outlook on life. I also have an elderly mother who In the last issue, I asked if anyone could identify six managers keeps me young with her zest for life and her love of travel. standing in front of Aberdeen airport 50 years ago. Since retiring I have enjoyed visiting a number of different Of course I was not disappointed. Jim Allison worked countries, most recently Australia and America. I am very at Ardrossan Refinery, transferred to Lowestoft, then back much looking forward to serving on the SPA Committee and to Aberdeen in 1967, where he worked in Materials. He being part of a team again." identified three of the men in the photo.

6 | SPA NEWS FROM THE SPA SECRETARY

Tuesday 13 December, Midday St Clement Danes Strand, London WC2R 1DH

It’s a truly festive occasion. The choir and trumpeter send shivers down the spine.

REGISTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS

You will have recently received the 2016 edition of the Source, the annual newsletter from the Trustee of the Shell Contributory Pension Fund and the Shell Overseas Contributory Pension Fund. From left to right: Unknown (according to article 'F.G.Burnett' - Ed) This year’s edition included a letter asking Ralph Messent, Head of Materials members to register their email addresses so that Dick Kidd, Head of Transport the Trustee can notify members when the Source Unknown (on the photo caption, looks like 'H. D McDowell'? - Ed) and other non-personalised communications are Paul Spencer, Head of Personnel available to view online in the future.

All worked at Lowestoft. Jim remembers how the small To register for electronic communications: airport had to increase quickly to handle the increase in 1. Visit the website at sp.pensioncomms.info air traffic and helicopter movements, generated by the oil 2. Enter your surname as printed on the letter discoveries. As Jim says: "These were great days and great and insert the unique PIN challenges, and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.” 3. Finally enter your personal email address

Member, Margaret May, was having a clear-out recently "We hope you will take this opportunity to and came across some old Shell books, belonging to her late help us to help you!" says Donna Livingstone, father, Norman Jones, who spent his career with Shell as a Communications and Trustee Services Adviser Chemist until he retired in 1960. If anyone is interested in the following, please get in touch with me: • Handbook of the Petroleum Industry, 1958 • Petroleum Handbook, 1966 • The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company – Diamond Jubilee MDCCCCL (in English)

At the risk of raising groans all round at the mention of Christmas, you may like to know that the company’s carol service this year will be held at the usual venue:

SPA NEWS | 7 SPA LIGHTER SIDE

THE TOURIST'S PRAYER A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Heavenly Father, look down on your humble obedient A 70-year-old lady had a heart attack and was taken to the tourist servants, who are doomed to travel the earth taking hospital. While on the operating table she had a 'near death photographs, mailing postcards, buying souvenirs, and experience' and saw God. walking around in drip-dry underwear. Is my time up?", she asked. Give us this day divine guidance in the selection of our hotels, that we may find our reservations honoured, our God replied, "No, you have another 20 years, two months rooms made up, and hot water running from the right tap. and eight days to live."

We pray that the telephones work, and the operators speak On recovery, and knowing she had so much more time our tongue. to live, she thought she may as well make the most of it. She decided to stay in the hospital and pay for a face-lift, Lead us, Lord, to good inexpensive restaurants where the liposuction, breast implants and a tummy tuck. She even had food is excellent, the waiters are friendly, and the wine is somebody to come in to change her hair colour and whiten included in the price. (I think this is probably asking a bit her teeth! much! - Ed) Finally, she was ready to leave. While crossing the street Give us the wisdom to tip correctly in currencies we don't on her way home, she was knocked over and killed by an understand. Forgive us for under-tipping in ignorance, and ambulance. over-tipping from fear. Make the natives love us for what we are and not for what we can contribute to their worldly Arriving in front of God, she demanded, "I thought you said goods. I had another 20+ years? Why didn't you pull me from out of the path of the ambulance?" Grant us the strength to visit museums, cathedrals, palaces and castles listed as 'musts' in the guidebooks. And if God replied: "I didn't recognize you!" perchance we skip an historic monument to take a nap after lunch, have mercy on us for our flesh is weak.

I'd like to update this with "Finally, Lord, please give us the patience not to harm 'selfie' taking tourists!" - Ed A SIGN OF THE TIMES!

CLEVER LORRY ART

8 | SPA NEWS SPA BUSINESS NEWS MAKE THE FUTURE WELCOME TO THE NEW London’s Olympic Park was the setting for the ultra-energy-efficient cars. In all, the first forum in the UK, bringing together more than 30,000 guests of all ages UK COUNTRY business people, think tanks, social attended the events. The challenge, in a psychologists and youth representatives nutshell, is how to provide more energy CHAIR to discuss ways to help society move while producing less carbon dioxide, towards a low-carbon future. The forum, for a global population expected hosted by Shell CEO, Ben van Beurden, to exceed nine billion in 2050.Last took place during Shell’s four-day festival December, 195 countries adopted the of ideas and innovation called Make the historic Paris Agreement, setting out a Future London. path towards a low-carbon future with For the first time in 30 years, Shell targets to reduce country emissions. Eco-marathon arrived in London as Today’s energy system is still part of Make the Future London. More about 80% dependent on fossil than 200 teams from all over Europe fuels, according to Shell’s New Lens competed on a specially-designed track Scenarios, while renewable energy around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park currently accounts for around 4% to see how far they could drive on the of the world’s total energy mix. To equivalent of one litre of fuel. (The achieve a low-carbon future will require current prototype gasoline record is changing systems and behaviours 3,771km/l – enough to take you from across companies, communities, London to Helsinki and back again on individuals and governments. US- just one litre of fuel!) Football legend, based utility company, Opower, sent Pelé, kicked off the festival of innovation its customers electricity bills with a as thousands of schoolchildren mingled small image comparing their energy with student mechanics making final consumption to their neighbours’; a tweaks and last-minute repairs. smiley icon also showed them how well As many as 8,000 schoolchildren customers were doing compared with visited the festival on one day, where their community. In many cases, these they tried out scientific games and simple comparisons led to reductions in demonstrations before checking out electricity consumption. Sinead Lynch succeeded Erik Bonino as Chair Shell UK Limited and UK Country, based in London. Erik continues in his current role as Executive Vice President Downstream Technology. Sinead began her career in BG in 1993 as a geophysicist. She moved on to work as an economist in UK assets before a series of commercial and business development roles. She was Vice President of Commercial for BG Nigeria, leading its upstream entry, and then served as Area Commercial Manager for BG’s Africa Middle East and Asia assets, before taking on the role of Head of Investment Appraisal. Sinead also spent two years in Bangkok as Asset General Manager. When the proposed combination between Shell and BG Group was announced in April 2015, Sinead headed the Integration Planning Team on the BG side and supported the transition into Shell. She is married with two young sons FootballBeams_unload legend, Pelé, helps kick off Make the Future andBeams_railway took up the Country Chair role on an 80% basis.

SPA NEWS | 9 SPA FEATURE

WELCOME TO SHELL

Over the summer, David Moss, GM Retail UK, introduced a new campaign, Welcome to Shell. Service stations continue to be the shop window of the company and the face of Shell. They are on a mission to make customers re-evaluate their experience of service stations. Filling up the car is generally a negative purchase: a lot of money is spent with no visible product, which causes a delay to a journey. The same amount of money would buy a meal out for two or a new pair of shoes.

There are 1,100 Shell-branded service stations in the UK, some company-owned, some franchised. In terms of products, V Power Nitro+ accounts for 15% of sales, but over 50% of all premium fuels sold in the UK, demonstrating its perceived value. Shell is Costa’s biggest customer, selling 17 million cups of coffee a year, along with 6 million sandwiches. Technology is crucial. It is expected that, by 2020, 50% all payments will be via smartphones. Shell wants to be at the forefront The focus for 2016 is to continue to drive standards and service and last year was the first fuel company to introduce payment for fuel across the network, irrespective of the ownership structure. The via smartphone, where customers don’t even have to leave their car, same quality experience should apply to all customers across they simply ‘fill up and go’. Later this year they will be the only fuel each service station. Forecourt staff are encouraged to treat each company to accept Apple Pay at the pump. customer as a ‘guest’. The company is handing out ‘Thank You’ cards to customers, who are invited to hand one to staff who have In essence there are five F goals: shown exceptional service, or the ‘wow’ factor. • Fuel – continuing to provide what the customer wants at both standard and premium levels Welcome to Shell includes several short, entertaining videos, • Food – a garage is no longer just a place for petrol. to humanise the outlets. These are the ‘station stories’ of its visitors, Customers want quality snacks, drinks and even household interviewing them about their lives, their friendships, and what shopping brings them to the service station. There were no actors and no • Facilities – are used ever more frequently, especially on long scripts. These interviews will be rolled out across several countries, journeys. Toilets must be clean and serviced with each one reflecting its own humour and culture. • Fill up and Go – to meet the demands of the technically savvy client for whom time is of the essence. Pay by fone? (a little Attended service is now available at over 150 outlets, in artistic licence here!) response to customer demand. Not only will attendants fill up the • Friendliness – it is difficult to get the consistency across all tank, but they been trained by The AA to carry out basic checks, outlets, but this is what the company is striving for, via its such as oil level and tyre pressure. To find your nearest one, check training programme. the website: www.shell.co.uk/motorist/station-locator.html or call SPA office, if you don’t have access to a computer. Retail hope you are noticing a difference.

10 | SPA NEWS BENEVOLENCE TINA'S NEWS

STATE BENEFITS by Tina Gilchrist

STATE BENEFITS • your name (or your partner’s) was the UK throughout the week of 19-25 on the bill September 2016. You may still be able to NHS-funded nursing care: In • you were getting the Guarantee receive the payment if you live in another England the NHS contribution towards Credit element of Pension Credit European Economic Area (EEA) country the costs of a place in a care home with (even if you get Savings Credit as or Switzerland and you have a genuine nursing has been increased on an interim well) link with the UK, such as working and basis to £156.25. The rates for eligible paying sufficient National Insurance to care home residents assessed to require The following suppliers are part of the claim a benefit. You can’t get the the help of a registered nurse will be as scheme: Atlantic, British Gas, Co- payment if you live in Cyprus, follows: operative energy, EDF Energy, E.ON, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Malta, • standard rate will be increased to Equipower (Ebico), Equigas (Ebico), Portugal or Spain because the £156.25 per week Extra Energy, First Utility, Manweb (see average winter temperature is • higher rate will be increased to ScottishPower), M&S Energy, npower, higher than the warmest region £215.04 per week (only relevant OVO, Sainsbury’s Energy (see British of the UK. for those who were already on Gas), Scottish Gas (see British Gas), the higher rate in 2007 when the Scottish Hydro, ScottishPower, Southern If you are claiming for the first single band was introduced) Electric, SSE, SWALEC, Utilita, Utility time and have not received the forms by Warehouse. January 2017 ring the claim line on The increase follows an independent 0345 915 15 15 Textphone: 0345 review of the rate paid by the NHS to If you don’t qualify some suppliers 606 0285 Outside the UK: +44 191 nursing homes (known as NHS-funded can offer the discount to vulnerable 218 7777 Textphone outside UK: +44 nursing care). The review recommends people (e.g. those on a low income). 191 218 7280. Lines open Mon-Fri that the NHS-funded nursing care rate Each supplier has their own rules about 8am-6pm. Your claim for 2016 to 2017 should increase by 40% to £156.25 per who else can get this help. Check with must arrive by 31 March 2017. You week. The increase will be backdated to the supplier if you meet their rules for help should receive £200 per household, 1 April 2016 for individuals who were in and how to apply. or £300 per household if someone receipt of NHS-funded nursing care from How to claim: If eligible, you will get is over 80. If you've already claimed that time. a letter telling you one of the following: and received the winter fuel payment, • you don’t have to apply for the payment will be automatic. The new rate is being paid on an interim discount – you’ll get it automatically basis while further work is done to review • o apply by 29 January 2017 – the Pension Credit – Assessed Income the element of the rate for agency nursing letter will tell you why and how Period (AIP) The AIP was abolished staff (which could lead to a reduction to for new claims on 6 April 2016. If you the rate from 1 January 2017), and to You should receive your letter by 24 were already on an AIP before this date, consult on introducing regional variation December at the latest; contact the it should continue to run its course for from April 2017. These rates are based helpline if your letter doesn’t arrive: the time being, unless your AIP ends for on the best evidence currently available Warm Home Discount Scheme some other reason. An AIP is usually set to the Department of Health. Helpline: 0345 603 9439 Lines for a five-year period, or for an indefinite open Monday to Friday, 8.30 am to 4.30 period if you're 75 or over. During the Warm Home Discount: For Winter pm. AIP, you have to inform the Pension 2016/17, pensioners who receive the Service of any changes in your retirement guarantee element of Pension Credit Pre-pay or pay-as-you-go provision that may affect your benefit, should receive an automatic deduction meters: You can also qualify for the such as a change in earnings, moving from their electricity bills of £140. discount if you use a pre-pay or pay-as- home, a change in family circumstances Payments should be made between you-go electricity meter. Your electricity or a period in hospital. October 2016 and March 2017. supplier can tell you how you’ll get the discount, if you’re eligible, for example a For new claimants: from 6 April 2016, The discount will not affect your voucher you can use to top-up your meter. there will be no AIP, so you will have to Winter Fuel Payment or Cold inform the Pension Service immediately if Weather Payment. Winter Fuel Payment Claim forms there are any changes to your retirement are now available. You must be born provision or your circumstances. You qualify for the discount if on 10 July on or before 5 May 1953 to qualify. 2016 all of the following apply: For those over 80, you must have been New welfare powers for the • your electricity supplier was part of born on or before 25 September 1936. Scottish Parliament On 14 July the scheme You can claim if you normally live in 2016, the UK government laid out

SPA NEWS | 11 SPA TINA'S PAGES formal Parliamentary regulations setting Territories, and from October 2017 Finance costs won’t be taken into the timetable for the transfer of the even more data will be provided from account to work out taxable property first tranche of welfare powers from across the globe, when the Common profits. Instead, once the Income Tax on Westminster to Holyrood under the Reporting Standard comes into force. property profits and any other income Scotland Act 2016. sources has been assessed, your These include the ability to: Transferable tax allowance Income Tax liability will be reduced by • Create new benefits in devolved (Marriage Allowance) If you a basic rate ‘tax reduction’. For most areas have applied for the transferable tax landlords, this will be the basic rate • Top-up reserved benefits (e.g. allowance of £1,100 (2016/17), you value of the finance costs. You will be Universal Credit, Tax Credits) will automatically be awarded the affected by this change if you are a: • Make discretionary payments and allowance in subsequent years, so there • UK resident individual that lets assistance is no need to claim it annually, unless residential properties in the UK or • Change employment support your circumstances change. overseas • Make changes to Universal • non-UK resident individual that lets Credit for the costs of rented HMRC Self Assessment Paper self- residential properties in the UK accommodation assessment tax return for the 2015/16 • individual who lets such properties • Make changes to Universal Credit tax year must be received by 31 in partnership on the timing of payments and October 2016 otherwise you'll be • Trustee or beneficiary of Trusts recipients liable for a penalty. Online returns liable for Income Tax on the • Make discretionary housing for the 2015/16 tax year must be property profits payments received by 31 January 2017. • The majority of these powers will transfer on 5 September 2016. Changes to tax relief for FINANCE Discretionary housing payments will residential landlords The tax relief transfer on 1 April 2017. that landlords of residential properties EU Referendum (Brexit) Bank of get for finance costs will be restricted to England has issued a few reassurances, the basic rate of Income Tax, phased in which will hopefully ease your mind a TAXATION from April 2017. little, these are:

Faster, easier tax refunds The changes will: Britain’s major banks are resilient. As through the Personal Tax Account • affect you if you let residential their supervisor, the Bank of England Taxpayers can now get their money properties as an individual, or in a has systematically and consistently back directly from HMRC via their partnership or Trust strengthened UK banks’ balance sheets Personal Tax Account without the need • change how you receive relief for in the last seven years. As a result, for a cheque or a trip to the bank. interest and other finance costs major UK banks have raised over The online tax refund service is now • be gradually introduced over four £130bn more capital, and have more available to customers who use their years from April 2017 than £600bn of cash and liquid assets Personal Tax Account. Overpaid tax in reserve. The Bank has tested them will be returned directly to their bank against severe stress scenarios that are account within 3-5 days, rather than far more demanding than that which the two weeks it would typically take the country currently faces. Banks are for a cheque to be issued, banked and able to continue to lend to businesses cleared. For further information on the and households, even in challenging Personal Tax Account go to: www. circumstances. gov.uk/personal-tax-account The Financial Services Tough new sanctions for offshore Compensation Scheme (FSCS) tax evaders Tax evaders are set to guarantees that the first £75,000 face tough new sanctions under plans you have deposited in any UK bank/ detailed by HMRC. Those who do not building society is protected; this will come forward and pay outstanding continue to be the case. Deposits in taxes from offshore investments and branches of European banks located accounts could face even tougher in the UK are still guaranteed by the penalties of up to three times the tax deposit guarantee scheme in the bank’s they try to evade, and increase their home country. Deposits in UK banks risk of potential criminal charges. that are owned by European (or other country) parent companies continue From October 2016 HMRC starts to to be covered by the UK’s Financial receive an unprecedented amount of Services Compensation Scheme. data on those with offshore accounts in the Crown Dependencies and Overseas

12 | SPA NEWS GENERAL will) decides who inherits the property.

Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)/ If the total value of the estate is less than Wills I've been asked to clarify the £5,000 (England & Wales), or £10,000 position on Lasting Power of Attorney (Scotland & Northern Ireland), a grant of (LPA) England & Wales, Continuing probate is not usually required. However, Power of Attorney (Scotland), Enduring some financial institutions will still insist on CONTACTS Power of Attorney (Northern Ireland). a grant of probate, and each institution If someone who has made a power of has their own rules on this. You should Tina Gilchrist of CBG Solutions Ltd attorney dies, the power of attorney will contact the organisation holding the has been contracted by the SPBA to cease, which means that the document money, e.g. the bank or building society. provide updates and a helpline on cannot be used from the time of death, They may ask for the death certificate state benefits. and should be returned to the Office after the death has been registered. For the helpline service, contact of the Public Guardian. You then need Tina: to apply for the legal right to deal with The bank accounts of the deceased CBG Solutions Ltd the estate of the deceased person (their person should be closed immediately on 44 Rydal Road property, money and possessions). death, as these form part of the estate. No transactions are allowed to take place Harrogate North Yorkshire If the deceased had left a will, the after the date of death, so it is important HG1 4SD executors of the will need to apply for that all accounts are closed, or joint accounts are transferred into the name of a ‘grant of representation’– also known 01423 819452 or 07711 the surviving account holder. as a ‘grant of probate’ (in England 555931 & Wales). In Scotland this process is [email protected] called ‘confirmation’ in Northern If money arrives in the name of the Ireland the process is called ‘grant deceased after accounts have been When you contact Tina, please of probate’. If the deceased did not closed, for example share dividends, mention the SPA and give her a leave a will, you will need to apply for pension payments etc., these must be phone number on which she can ‘letters of administration’ and contact returned to the provider with an original speak to you if necessary. of the death certificate and the grant of your local Probate Registry, who will Ian Landeryou probate, together with a request for the explain what to do next. SPBA Secretary/Treasurer cheque to be re-issued in the name of the 020 7934 5131 executor. You don’t normally need a grant of [email protected] probate or confirmation if the estate either: This may seem like an obvious point, but • passes to the surviving spouse/ a Power of Attorney can only be used civil partner because it was held whilst the person is still alive, and a will in joint names, e.g. a savings can only be used once the person has account died. They are not interchangeable, and After your 75th birthday, you can get a • doesn’t include land, property or do not serve the same purpose. free TV Licence. It covers you as well as shares. anyone you live with. I realise that this is a wide subject, but Property ownership I hope that the above clarifies a few If you already have a TV Licence If the property was owned under a necessary points. on 1 September, you are already ‘joint tenancy’ (‘joint owners’ in covered. Scotland), the deceased and the other TV Licence for BBC iPlayer From 1 owner both own the whole of the home. September 2016 you will need to be Telephone Preference Service Ownership then passes to the surviving covered by a TV Licence to download (TPS) In the Summer 2016 Newsletter, owner. or watch any BBC programmes on I mentioned that you could opt out of demand, including catch up TV, or BBC unsolicited calls on mobile phones by If the property was owned under a iPlayer. This applies to: text. I gave a short-code number of ‘tenancy in common’ (‘common • TV sets 78070, to type in the text box. The TPS owners’ in Scotland and • Laptops and desktop computers have now introduced a new number ‘coparteners’ in Northern • Tablets, mobile phones, satnavs and 85095, which is free to use. To register, Ireland), two or more people owned other portable devices mobile customers simply text 'TPS', the home either in equal shares or a • Digital boxes (PVRs), satellite and followed by their email address to the defined percentage. The person’s will cable, e.g. Freeview, Freesat, Sky, short-code 85095. They will receive a (or the law if there is no will) decides Virgin Media, BT Vision, YouView, text reply from the TPS confirming their who inherits their share. Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku and number has been successfully added to Amazon Fire TV its database. The alternative short-code If the property is owned outright, the • Games consoles number of 78070 will be charged at your person’s will (or the law if there is no • DVD, Blu-ray and VHS recorders standard network rate.

SPA NEWS | 13 SPA FEATURE

LIFE IN THE ROUND SCULPTOR PATRICIA BANNISTER TALKS TO ARDELLA JONES ABOUT HER TRAVELS WITH SHELL AND A CREATIVE RETIREMENT

When maths graduate Peter met Hampshire girl Patricia at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, back in1956, the encounter added up to a long happy marriage. Whilst on National Service, Peter Bannister had been summoned for interview in an RAF recruitment drive for mathematicians; Patricia was already working as a scientific assistant on the first computer, an enormous mainframe contraption. A workplace romance blossomed. Two became one then multiplied into four with the arrival of baby Bannisters, David and Christopher.

Peter joined Shell in Supply and Planning and five years later the family was off to Venezuela. The boys attended the British School, then boarded in England, while Patricia enjoyed a busy social life as well as learning the art of Mexican papier mâché. After 10 years, Peter was posted to the Caribbean island of Curaçao.

“It was all sun and sea,” says Patricia. “The boys loved coming for the holidays. I learned to sail, which was fun, but you had to get off the island every six months for some culture and city life.”

The Bannisters’ next posting in Nairobi was less enjoyable for Patricia, who sums up her experience of the Kenyan capital as ‘boring’. The few long-term British residents had no time for ‘Nine Day Wonders’ like Patricia, who was only there for two years. Despite living in the embassy district, she found the city dirty and dangerous.

“Everyone had alarms and kept dogs. We had a night guard and, when Peter was away, a day guard too. It’s not a nice way to live.”

Patricia kept up her artistic pursuits, however, and ran a small class in papier mâché. A move to The Hague saw her teaching two popular classes.

“Holland was wonderful," says Patricia, who spent six years there. “The people were friendly and England was near. After Kenya, the shopping was great!” Old lady prays for peace Peter retired from Shell and in 1996 the couple moved to the picturesque village of

14 | SPA NEWS Shipton Under Wychwood in Oxfordshire. Patricia is modest about her work and, Sadly, Peter died just eight months later, but despite admiration from those who’ve seen the community rallied round Patricia. Son it, has not exhibited. Travelling the world David lives just four miles away and acts as and raising a family meant she didn’t her odd job man and IT support. have time for formal art training, one of the few regrets she has about her varied “I was in the right place," she says, life. However, age brings confidence and, 1 “everyone looked out for me, involving me after visiting the Royal Academy, she feels in local life.” A fund-raising review had emboldened to submit some work next year. Patricia posing in the village hall as Autumn It’s never too late! in a Four Seasons tableau, with a pumpkin on her head and strategically placed colanders, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Women’s Institute’s 'Calendar Girls’.

Her new neighbours also encouraged her more serious creative endeavours. Whilst helping with the church flowers, someone suggested she create a small 2 3 sculpture for an empty niche in the nave. Although previously she had worked mainly in clay, modelling a bust of her husband a year before he died, Patricia rose to the challenge. She found a piece of Cotswold stone and carved a simple, modern Madonna and Child for the 900th anniversary of St. Mary’s Parish Church.

A second soapstone sculpture was inspired by a very different mother and child: Kim Phuc is the little Vietnamese girl, running naked from a napalm attack, in Nick Ut’s iconic 1972 photo. Patricia saw a moving photograph of the adult Kim cradling her baby, a symbol of healing and hope, which she recreated in stone.

“The carvings would sell like that,” says Patricia, “but I love them too much to lose them. There’s emotion in them. You have to see the shape in your mind, feel it, the roundness and solidity.”

Recently, Patricia has turned to painting because of the physical challenges of sculpting big pieces of stone. “The dust necessitates working in a large space or outside, but the English climate makes it difficult to use the garden,” she says regretfully. “Although I love working in the round, and solid modelling seems to be what I’m good at, I paint in oils now. I like doing portraits, mainly of my sons and the family, because I can envisage the whole form as in sculpture. I think in 3D.” Patricia is having difficulty finding sitters, however. “People don’t want to sit still, especially my grandchildren. I’d also like to paint an older person, but they can’t stay awake. I’m looking for volunteers.”

Patricia’s architect son Christopher may be too busy for portrait sitting; he was one of the design team for the Olympic vélodrome in 2012, and gave Patricia 4 a tour this impressive building before the official opening. 1) Peter; 2) Soapstone Girl; 3) Patricia at work; 4) Patricia's granddaughter

SPA NEWS | 15 SPA FEATURE

AFRICAN ADVENTURES FOR SHELL ‘ROOKIE’ ROALD

Whilst on these tours, he enjoyed the hospitality of expatriate civil servants who worked locally.

The wildlife proved a challenge: his man servant or ‘boy’, working in the garden of his Shell house, was almost killed by a black mamba. He was only saved at the last minute by Dahl running, naked, outside to alert him, just in time for ‘boy’ to skewer it with a rake. The wildlife game proved more entertaining and he loved spotting giraffe, zebra and lions, from a safe distance. These animals feature heavily in his children’s books, accompanied by funny illustrations by Quentin Blake.

Aged 23, and still based in Africa, Roald signed up for the war. To his utter shock, he was put in charge of a platoon to capture any Roald Dahl would have been 100 years old Germans trying to flee the country, with orders to this year. He is perhaps the most famous kill, if necessary. contemporary author of children’s books, with a string of loved titles, including Charlie and the He was most grateful that Shell offered to Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and The BFG, which continue to pay his salary for the duration of the was recently made into a film (for the second time) war. What a great company to work for. starring Mark Rylance. They are as much fun for the adult reader as they are for the child listener. 1 1)Roald Dahl Plass plaque What’s less well-known is that Roald was a 2) Tanganika Shell man. After school, he joined the company in London, in 1934, and was a fairly lowly clerk for a couple of years. Showing signs of his undoubted adventurous spirit, Roald put himself forward for training that would enable him to be 2 posted abroad. He had already begun dabbling with writing stories, and in his autobiography Going Solo, he remembers an idyllic, colonial lifestyle working for the company in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1938. Still in his early twenties, he was one of only three English staff responsible for oil sales covering a vast territory. Based in Dar Es Salaam, he thoroughly relished driving many miles into the outback, to visit his customers.

16 | SPA NEWS FORTY YEARS OF MEMORIES BY HELEN PAGE

I was reminded by Committee member, Sue Marlbrough, that it is 40 years since the first British oilfield, Auk, came online, though it was discovered in 1970 and production started in December 1975. It is about 150 miles southeast of Aberdeen and was operated by Expro in partnership with ESSO until October 2006, when it was bought by Talisman. In those days, the project was managed from a small office in the London Downstream building, while the engineers were based in a portacabin in Aberdeen. Tullos was still a twinkle Sue Marlborough's celebratory tankard in the company eye.

The field is named after the Auk family of sea birds. There is an (entirely fanciful) legend that it was to be called A UK, until somebody realised that the sixth field would be called F UK. The policy was rapidly changed to name the fields after sea birds. Shell’s sixth UK oilfield is called Fulmar.

Were you involved with this historic production? We’d love to hear your stories.

Still in exploration, the e-booklet of 40 years’ memories of the North Sea has been compiled by Padraig McClosky and is now available. Contact me if you would like the e-version. Auk

SIXTY YEARS OF MEMORIES

John McNamara was involved in the construction of the Shell Centre in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The plumbing work was contracted to Hadens, with over 300 plumbers working on the job. John started as a plumber’s mate, earning 3/- an hour (15p) and served his apprenticeship over the next five years. He was partly responsible for the fountain in the courtyard. Although the installation was sound, the design meant that the water blew sideways in windy weather, drenching passers-by. It earned the nickname “The Blow Through”! Construction included state-of-the-art technology to draw water from the Thames, as a cooling main. Disputes between the heating engineers and the plumbers as to who should be responsible resulted in a 13-week strike, for what should have been a three-week job. The plumbers won, so the heating engineers went on strike. John was very young to be elected as shop steward at the age of 19 – a rather difficult job. However, the job was not without its perks; John was one of the first to swim in the pool (unofficially). He and his mates left a memory pack under the lead work on the roof, with their names and rates of pay. The photos are a good reminder of how far we have come in terms of safety!

SPA NEWS | 17 SPA MISCELLANEOUS

‘PUMPED’ UP FLATS!

Manor Road Garage in Ferring, West Sussex was built in the 1930s, in Art Deco style. It was owned for many years by Mr Lillywhite, who threw Fergie tractor, two road rollers and six nothing away. When he died in 1997, steam engines were sold, along with there were 60 years of documents, as many of the fixtures and fittings from the well as every piece of packaging he’d garage. Vast quantities of old spares ever received. His wife died ten years found homes with various retail outlets. later and as part of the disposal of the Some of the equipment can now be seen estate, the garage had to be cleared. at the Amberley Working Museum. There were 13 cars, six steam engines, assorted tractors, road rollers and many Three years ago the property was vintage items. Some of the cars were converted into luxury flats. beyond restoration; they had been reduced to piles of rust. Anything which Thanks to members Colin Terry and could be reused was removed. An Eric Stoter for providing the information Austin, MG, two Rolls Royces, a Grey and photos.

AND WHERE IS THIS?

Member John Underhill has generously offered to make a donation Members with good memories may remember we featured this of £50 to the ‘charity of your choice’ for the first member to identify photo in a previous issue, but, to make it more difficult, we’re not the location of this retail outlet; see p2 for contact details. telling you when!

18 | SPA NEWS SPA MISCELLANEOUS

A MODEL RETIREMENT ROY EMERY TELLS ARDELLA JONES HOW WORK WITH SHELL INSPIRED HIS ABSORBING NEW HOBBY …

When Roy Emery retired in 2008 joining his local model railway club in Shell Haven Basildon was a natural choice. Roy had worked in the Shell Haven refinery from 1980 to 2001 then, after its closure, next door with BP, loading and shunting bitumen trains.

His first model layout was Fenchurch Cutting, a take on a busy city terminal, but transporting and assembling the 4’ 6” boards to exhibitions was hard work. “Damage in transit is a problem and on-the-spot repairs are often necessary,” says Roy, “I wasn’t big on DIY, but I learned to do electrical wiring, painting, and carpentry. I picked up tips at the club. I also had to research the fascinating history of the rail.”

When an ex-colleague showed Roy photos of the Shell Haven Depot taken before its demolition, he was inspired to In the loading gantry, Roy built a cleverly designed to fit in a saloon car recreate the loading area circa 1983- winch system with a series of warning and still leave room for a passenger. 93 as his next model. "The refinery was lights, which flash when the wagons huge and I worked in the plant area move forward. In real life, a klaxon “None of the railway layouts I’ve seen so I'd never actually seen loading in would sound, too, as the winch operated, over the years show an oil refinery,” says operation. There were very few photos but Roy says “there’s no klaxon on the Roy, “I aim to exhibit the model for four available because of fire safety and model as the noise would drive people up or five years, then sell it for charity.” He security considerations.” the wall!” raised £1,625 for Cancer Research with the sale of Fenchurch Cutting. Three years later, Roy had a 15- The model’s control systems are foot long by 18-inch wide layout, with concealed behind an electronic photo Roy has gained lots of friends making buildings built from scratch and a hand- display showing the real depot; this area, models and touring round to exhibitions, painted back screen. As with all model hidden from the public, is known as ‘The though he admits most modellers are railways, the actual size of the depot had Fiddle Yard’. The track is '00' gauge male. Any controversy in the Emery to be compressed, with some buildings and the rolling stock has been repainted, household has been solved with “His” constructed in half relief. renumbered and weathered. It’s all and “Hers” sheds, so his wife Cathy can store her gardening equipment while Roy has a permanent train circuit in his. Roy’s grandsons love the models and are careful playing with granddad’s prized possessions.

Not one to stay idle, Roy has already started to build a completely different layout based on Stokesay Castle and the nearby railway line in Shropshire, which promises to be spectacular!

You can see the Shell Haven Depot on display at the Southend-on-Sea Model Railway Club show on 19 and 20 November 2016. To find your local model railway club, check this Tankers at Shell Haven directory: www.ukmodelshops.co.uk

SPA NEWS | 19 SPA FINANCE

DON’T LET THE WEATHER SPOIL KEEP SCAMMERS YOUR PLACE IN THE SUN OFF YOUR DAVID CAWDEARY, FROM BLUEFIN, ADVISES PENSION Weather related damage accounts for Most SPA members are already in receipt 25% of all claims made on holiday of their pension, but if you or your family homes, followed by escape of water, are invested in an additional scheme, the theft, and accidental damage, pension changes provide ripe picking according to Hiscox Holiday Home for pension scammers. With this in mind, Claims data, 2010-14. we've asked Paul Morton, Investment Many of our members are lucky Planning Director at My Wealth to share to own a holiday home either in the tips on how to avoid losing your pension UK or abroad; help to keep it safe by to fraudsters. following these tips: 1. Scams may look and sound Regularly check replacement costs legitimate, with professional looking for your contents to avoid being websites and literature, Before you do underinsured in the event of a claim. anything, check that the company is Not all insurers will automatically registered with the Financial Conduct increase your sums insured in line with Authority (FCA) https://register.fca. inflation. If you are likely to leave the org.uk/ and visit the FCA’s ScamSmart property unoccupied for over 60 days, website which includes a warning list of check with your provider, as additional companies www.scamsmart.fca.org.uk conditions may apply. Do they know how often you visit your holiday home, 2. If it looks too good to be true, it so there are no surprises in the event of doubt about a material fact, mention it probably is. a claim? to your broker. The language barrier 3. You’ve been googled – Legitimate If you take advantage of the earning may be a problem with a local insurer investment companies are very unlikely potential by letting out your property, abroad, especially with policy wording, to cold call. Scammers can get hold make sure your insurer is aware. It can if you’re not fluent. There may be local of details not just about you and your be lucrative but could impact on your laws and practices of the legal system. interests, but also about your local area. insurance premium or cover; not all Consider using the insurer who already Their knowledge and friendliness could insurers allow subletting. covers your main residence. catch you off guard. If you need to make a claim, the insurer will look at how the property is 4. Genuine advisers will never rush managed while it is unoccupied, such you to make a decision. Limited time as regular inspections by a responsible offers are likely to be too good to be adult, good security measures, fire true. and intruder alarms, and water leak 5. If someone promises to release your detection devices. To find out more about holiday pension early they are lying. Pensions When taking out the policy, advise home insurance, contact Bluefin: can normally only be accessed after 55, the insurer on local issues that may 0800 195 8002 or email unless you have seriously ill health. affect your property such as subsidence, [email protected] risk of earthquake, fire or flood. If in 6. If you think you are being scammed contact The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) immediately, as they will be able to help others from falling for the same retirement planning. scam. My Wealth is a trading name of Wealth at Work Limited and is also part of Members may have read previous If you are concerned please the Wealth at Work group of companies articles by Affinity Financial Awareness contact the Pensions Admin and provides practical guidance and Ltd. Affinity Financial Awareness Ltd has Team if it relates to your advice on investing. The group also offers now become a member of the Wealth Shell pension (0207 934 will writing and Lasting Power of Attorney at Work group of companies. The group 1190), or TPAS (0300 123 services. specialises in delivering a retirement 1047) for any other pension. income options service which provides For more information visit www. financial education, guidance and advice wealthatwork.co.uk/mywealth or call 0800 in order to implement and manage 028 3200 and quote SPA.

20 | SPA NEWS SPA HEALTH

MOVE IT

As a society we are becoming more MODERATE ACTIVITY will raise the sedentary. We have to consciously heart rate and make you breathe faster make the effort to move more to gain and feel warmer. One way to tell if the benefits of improved health. you're exercising at a moderate level is Adults over 65, who are generally fit if you can still talk, but you can't sing the and have no health conditions which limit words to a song. Examples include: their mobility, should aim for: Walking/water aerobics /ballroom and line dancing/riding a bike on level 150 minutes of moderate aerobic ground or with few hills/ doubles tennis/ activity, such as cycling or walking, mowing the lawn FEEL THE every week AND strength COLOUR OF exercises on two or more days, that VIGOROUS ACTIVITY makes you work the major muscles (legs, hips, breathe hard and fast. If you're working MONEY back, abdomen, chest, shoulders, at this level, you won't be able to say and arms) more than a few words without pausing RNIB have worked closely with the for breath. Examples include: Bank of England on developing OR Jogging or running/aerobics/swimming new bank notes that will incorporate fast/riding a bike fast or on hills/singles features to help blind and partially 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic tennis/hiking uphill/energetic dancing sighted people better identify their activity, such as running or a game money. With information gathered of singles tennis each week AND If you have balance issues, build up through focus groups, they were able strength exercises on two or more your strength by standing on one leg; to advise the Bank of England on the days a week that work all the you may need to hold onto a firm surface size of the notes, what they should feel major muscles at first. Aim to build up to one minute for like, and how they would work best each leg. Use your time usefully while for people with sight loss. OR waiting for the kettle to boil or standing The new notes are printed on at the bus stop. Keep your back straight. polymer, a thin flexible plastic; they A mix of moderate/vigorous When working at the computer, are cleaner, being more resistant to aerobic activity every week, watching TV, or reading, try to break up dirt and moisture; they’re safer, with e.g. two 30-minute runs, plus 30 long periods of sitting. Chores such as better security features, and stronger, minutes of fast walking, equates to shopping, cooking or housework don't making them longer lasting and more 150 minutes of moderate aerobic count towards your goal because the environmentally friendly. activity AND strength exercises on effort isn’t enough to raise your heart “Like Churchill, the new polymer two or more days a week that work rate, but they’re important nonetheless. note will stand the test of time,” Mark the major muscles Carney, Governor of the Bank of England said. A rule of thumb is that one minute of The sizes will be tiered (the bigger vigorous activity provides the same health the denomination, the bigger the benefits as two minutes of moderate activity. note), will include bold numerals and have similar colour palettes to the old paper notes. In addition, the new £10 and £20 notes will include a tactile feature, created by a series of raised dots. The £5 note, showing Sir Winston Churchill, was introduced in England and Wales in September and is distinguishable by not having this feature. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they are being rolled out over the autumn months. The £10 note will be issued in summer 2017, featuring author Jane Austen. The £20 note, with the artist JMW Turner, is due by 2020. You can continue to use the paper £5 note until its legal tender status is withdrawn in May 2017.

SPA NEWS | 21 SPA TIME OUT

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EXPLORE THE INFLUENCE OF ONE OF ART’S MOST INFAMOUS AND REVOLUTIONARY FIGURES

Beyond Caravaggio’ is the first major followers were highly sought-after in the Gallery, London examines the international exhibition in the UK to explore the decades following his untimely death artistic phenomenon known as influence of Caravaggio on the art of his at the age of just 39. By the mid-17th Caravaggism. The vision of this exhibition contemporaries and followers. century, however, the Caravaggesque is to engage the public with some of After the unveiling of Caravaggio’s first style had fallen out of favour and it would the greatest works by the artist and his public commission in 1600, artists from take almost 300 years for Caravaggio’s followers, and to explore the history of across Europe flocked to Rome to see reputation to be restored and for his artistic how and when these pictures entered their his work. Seduced by the pictorial and accomplishments to be fully recognised. respective collections in the British Isles. narrative power of his paintings, many Bringing together exceptional works The study of Caravaggesque pictures went on to imitate their naturalism and by Caravaggio and the Italian, French, was, and remains, rather limited. This dramatic lighting effects. Flemish, and Dutch artists he inspired, exhibition will tell the story of the artist’s Paintings by Caravaggio and his ‘Beyond Caravaggio’ at the National lasting influence on European art in the

22 | SPA NEWS ENJOY A BREAK ON ROYAL DEESIDE

Woodbank is Shell Upstream in the UK’s broadband internet. The hotel facilities own hotel, conference and leisure facility include an attractive and relaxing bar in Aberdeen, set in extensive grounds on and restaurant, fitness room, badminton Special festivities are available Royal Deeside, only two miles from the and tennis courts, sauna, steam room, over the Christmas period. city centre and six from Aberdeen airport. and children’s play area. Contact: All 22 rooms have en-suite shower, Woodbank’s accommodation rates [email protected] coffee/tea making facilities and free until November 2016: or call 01224 884700.

Room type Sun-Thurs Sun-Thurs Fri-Sat Single Double Single/Double Occupancy Occupancy Occupancy

Standard £105.00 £115.00 £50.00**

Executive/Family £115.00 £125.00 £70.00*

Suite £135.00 £135.00 £90.00**

*Additional guests over the age of 5: £15.00 per guest **Additional guests over the age of 5: N/A

THE A TO Z OF THE SHELL HERITAGE ART COLLECTION BY MELINDA MCCHEYNE

In a new campaign to share our Shell heritage, the Shell Heritage Art Collection is taking us on a journey, via the alphabet, to explore how the Shell brand developed through its use of art, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571- advertising, products and sponsorship to 1640). Boy Bitten by a Lizard (c. 1594-1595). become the successful brand we know © The National Gallery, London and love today. To follow the A to Z, log on to the Shell Heritage website at www. nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/A_to_Z 17th century. Through loans, the exhibition where you can discover that ‘A is for will also assist regional collections to study Artist’, ‘N is for Nature’ or ‘S is for their paintings and promote their collections SMBP’, with many interesting facts to a wider audience. and images revealed every week. For SPA has been allocated 10 pairs of a weekly reminder of when the next tickets (worth £12 each), valid until 7 letter is revealed, follow us on twitter January. Closing date for applications https://twitter.com/SHAC_Curator is 31 October. Contact SPA office (see p2). Bookings must now be made online: or on the National Motor Museum winners will be given a web link and Facebook page www.facebook.com/ password. nationalmotormuseum/

SPA NEWS | 23 SPA REUNIONS & MEETINGS

There are a number of reunions and meetings organised throughout the year from different business departments. We will advertise the reunions that we know about.

Shell Agrochemicals 34th Reunion Lunch, November 2016, London. Venue will be advised in due course. Contact Peter Langcake at [email protected], 01903 744679

Agrichemical Golf About 35 pensioners compete each Autumn. It's a good opportunity to meet up with old friends. Contact David Young 01883 712578

LMC Mountaineering Club meet regularly during the year for day walks and weekends away. See our programme at: www.hillsandvalleys.co.uk/LMC, or email: [email protected]

Oman Golfers Association The results from the 37th Annual Meeting held at Cave Castle Hotel & Country Club 5-7 July are: The Maqbool Hameed trophy: Graham Hunt & Stewart Purdie The Mildred Cooper trophy: Don Gray The Famous Grouse Trophy: Stewart Purdie Reunions SSPA Fleming Trophy winners The 38th Annual Meeting will be held at Kenwick Park Hotel & Golf Club, North Lincolnshire, 11-13 July 2017. Contact Fred new faces again. More information nearer the time. Gray on 01624 837247 email: [email protected] Contact: Mike Schaafsma: [email protected] or Emilie Hunt: [email protected] SCUK/SICC Chemicals 35th Lunch: for all who have been involved in Chemicals in SCUK and SICC, including partners, 7th Industrial/Commercial Lubricants: Worcester, 24 guests and deferred pensioners, 7 April 2017 at Lensbury. April 2017. Contact Neil Bown: 01630 647129, Contact Jon Warnke 01483 417387, [email protected] [email protected]

Far East Reunion was held at Lensbury in April with a very Fleming Trophy 1 June 2017, Ballater Golf Course. This year good attendance. Everyone enjoyed the lunch and catching the course was badly affected by flooding of the River Dee in up with friends and colleagues. The reunion is open to December. Fortunately, it recovered, and an enjoyable day was everybody who worked for Shell in the Far East, husbands, had on this picturesque course by 29 players. Alison Graham wives or partners. We have booked the same venue for took the Ladies Trophy and Ian Smith the Gents, both for the Thursday 11 May 2017 and hope to see everyone and some second year running. Contact Bill Laver [email protected]

GET AWAY BY ROB JENKINS, CHAIR

Shell Travel Club was suffering earlier this year, due to an ageing £5.00! Take a look at what we do, read the reviews – you may committee, the unexpected loss of our Chairman and the lack of even recognise some of the members from the photographs! others to run trips. Unless new recruits came forward to join the committee, it was just a matter of time until the club folded, which For information email [email protected] would be a great shame, having been in existence for many years. Fortunately, our plea was successful and in August we welcomed six new members to the committee who are keen to put together and run holidays for our members. For 2017 we are working on holidays to Puglia, Italy, Madeira and the Isle of Man with a long haul holiday to the Caribbean in early 2018. This is in addition to the holidays to St Ives in May and the extended wine & Champagne Tour in June next year. All STC holidays, including day and UK short breaks, will be added to our website www.shelltravelclub.com once they are finalised. For current members it is important to register your email address on the website to ensure you continue to receive the newsletters. For those who are not yet members, but enjoy travel and potentially meeting former colleagues, you can apply Shell Travel Club on a trip to France via the website. The cost of membership is a one off payment of

24 | SPA NEWS SPA BRANCHES

NORTH LONDON & HERTS

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1) A rare photo of Robert Hillyard at Chelsea Hospital; 2) Embankment gardens;

It's only three years since we featured North London & Herts, but they're such a busy Branch, they provide a wealth of ideas for a day out. Nick Edmonds, Branch Chair: “We normally arrange two annual events in London (we use London Walks and budget on £20 per head). Our own members and friends have also volunteered guided tours. Events are arranged midweek and, more recently, on a Saturday evening, when we tried the 'Shuttleworth Proms' (WW2 popular songs with a blend of Scottish Chair Brian Hope with a Shell Aviation Spirit can vintage aircraft flying to orchestral music). Ideas come from everywhere: the committee and members, other branch programmes from SPA News. All events involve a SCOTTISH BRANCH VISIT lunch or food of one sort or another. We try to take advantage of 'group' options that many attractions offer, to get something that TO MONTROSE a single visitor would find hard to access – special events or a guided tour. AIR STATION Participant numbers vary: of our 55 or so members, a core group attends most events, while others dip in for things they like. HERITAGE CENTRE, We just aim to have a good time and take an opportunity for a chat! Recent activities have covered a wide range of events: BY ALAN MONTGOMERY London Walks such as the Inns of Court, Darkest Victorian London, Tower of London to Wapping, The Palace During the summer, 26 members visited the Air Station – the Quarter, and Unexpected London. first operational fighting air station of the First World War. The Other Guided Tours: Shuttleworth Air Museum & Swiss knowledgeable guide managed to answer all our questions, Garden at Old Warden; Great Lodge Vineyard, Bardfield; even those from our technically minded members. Apart from Harrow School; Wrest Park & Audley End House (English the planes and engines, the exhibition even includes a very Heritage); Houses of Parliament; Historic Dockyard Chatham; early training simulator and a huge collection of contemporary Backstage Royal Opera House; RNLI, Royal Hospital photographs and memorabilia. Chelsea; Westminster Cathedral; Wimpole Hall & Gardens After the visit, we set off for the Links Hotel, where we (National Trust). indulged in tea, coffee, sandwiches, scones, pancakes, There was also a Non-Guided Visit to Kensington Palace. shortbread and cakes. The plates of sandwiches appeared Outings: Narrow boat cruise and cream tea, and to fill up without being asked and the tea and coffee, like Rambles along rivers, reservoirs and valleys, such as River the conversation, flowed. A good day was had by all, and, Lea and Lea Valley Park. thanks to the hotel staff, special dietary needs were catered There are formal lunches in summer, winter and at the for at very short notice. We look forward to our next outing. AGM; the latter always at Brookmans Park. We return to the Cricketers, Clavering each winter – it's run by Jamie Oliver's parents and is just so good! Although titled North London & Herts, some members live in neighbouring Bedfordshire. Many live in the eastern half of the Branch, as it offered easy commuting to the pre- Shell Centre Head Office locations in the City.” Nick worked mainly in finance in SMBP. His last job was with STASCO. His committee (Colin Bowkley, Ian Charman, Colin Gibbens, Beryl Elderfield and Monika Hills) is supported by new PLR, Frances Chater, when needed. "Memory Lane" photos are taken and circulated by 'resident photographer' WW1 BE2a replica - Montrose Air Museum. and Hon Secretary, Robert Hillyard.

SPA NEWS | 25 SPA BRANCH EVENTS, CALENDAR, 2016 AND CONTACTS

Cheshire Devon & Cornwall Kenneth Skeldon Email:[email protected] David Watters Tel: 01803 856648 1 Nov Talk, "Air Traffic Control of Your Flight to Spain" Email: [email protected] 13 Dec Christmas Lunch, Oak Room 18 Oct Pub Lunch, Norway Inn, Perranarworthal, Cornwall (NB 17 Jan New Year Buffet, Oak Room change of date from 20th) 6 Dec Christmas Lunch, Moorland Garden Hotel, Yelverton, Chilterns & Thames Valley Devon Judith Turner Tel: 01895 637188 Email:[email protected] East Anglia 8 Dec Christmas Lunch, Sonning Golf Club Sally Brown Tel: 01502 585023 Email: [email protected] Cumbria & Lancashire 6 Oct Visit & Lunch, St. Peter's Brewery, South Elmham, nr Ken Lovell Tel: 01900 823414 Bungay, Suffolk Email: [email protected] 1 Dec Christmas Lunch at the Park Farm Hotel, Hethersett, Nr Wymondham, Norfolk

1) Isle of Wight lunch; 2) North&Mid Hants Sapphire Visit; 3) Cheshire Tea Party; 4) Sussex, St Mary's Gardens.

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26 | SPA NEWS Essex Northumberland & Durham Iris Shaw Tel: 01375 679908 Email: [email protected] Doug Renton Tel: 0191 252 5331 4 Dec Pre-Christmas lunch, Springhouse Club Email: [email protected] 15 Mar Guest speaker: “We’ll meet again” 6 Dec Christmas lunch, Holiday Inn, Jesmond Social get-together 3rd Wednesday of each month Scotland Greater Manchester June Wilson Email: [email protected] Bryan Clarke Tel: 0161 456 5083 Email: [email protected] Selkent Regular events: flat walking every 3rd Thurs, Pauline Langley Tel: 020 8856 1816 hill walking every 2nd Wed Email: [email protected] 12 Dec Christmas Lunch at Sale Conservative Club 3 Nov Autumn Lunch, Bromley Court Hotel

Isle of Man Severn & Avon Fenella Gray Email: [email protected] Gerry Mapson Tel: 01452 712084 Isle of Wight Email: [email protected] Jocelyn Hardy-Bishop Tel: 01983 866303 16 Nov Bristol & Clifton Golf Club – Speaker “The Dead Sea Email: [email protected] to Damascus" 25 Oct. Lunch, The Crab & Lobster, Bembridge. Dec Hotel (Lunch) with Quiz Meet at 12.30 for 1pm. South Hants & Dorset Kent Colin Lambert Tel: 01202 749676 Linda Leborgne Tel: 01634 262081 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 20 Oct Annual Lunch at Boughton Golf Club South Wales 8 Nov Informal Pub Lunch at The Sun, Bredgar Gill Beach Tel: 01792 369320 Email [email protected] 8 Dec Christmas lunch, tba The Marches Gill Stovold Tel: 01568 760241 East Surrey Email: [email protected] Martyn Hankin Tel: 020 8946 2519 12 Oct AGM & Lunch, Leominster Golf Club E-mail: [email protected]. 10 Nov Lunch at Reigate Manor Hotel Midshires Alan Chandler Tel: 0121 705 1648 West Surrey Email: [email protected] Margaret Parsons Tel: 01483 811103 19 Oct tbc Visit to The Trentham Estate, Stoke On Trent Email: [email protected] 6 Dec Christmas Lunch Kings Court Hotel Alcester 18 Nov AGM & Christmas Lunch

North London & Herts Sussex Robert Hillyard Tel: 01707 654165 Nigel Beesley 01903 812775 Email: [email protected] 20 Oct AGM Windsor Hotel, Worthing 21 Oct (tba) Guided Tour of Covent Garden Opera House 23 Nov Winter Lunch at the Cricketers, Clavering Yorkshire Hanneke Wood Tel: Contact SPA Email: [email protected] North & Mid Hants Malcolm Wells Tel: 01256 346743 3 4 Email: [email protected]

Northern Ireland Alma Atkins Tel: 02890 839003 Email: [email protected] 24 Nov Christmas lunch - tba

SPA NEWS | 27 SPA CONGRATULATIONS

Here is a selection of the many wonderful photos we By Lynn Forsdyke receive. To share details of your celebration, please contact Lynn Forsdyke.

Blyth, Barbara and Norman of GOLDEN (50 YEARS) Stockport – 26 May. Prior to retirement BLUE SAPPHIRE Norman worked at Shell Carrington. (65 YEARS)

Arnold, Joyce and Robert of Cobham, Surrey – 25 Aug. Prior to retirement Robert worked as Operations Manager, Thermo Comfort.

Minnis, Kay and Herbie (Paddy) of Hemel Hempstead, Herts – 4 Jul. Prior to Corns, Olive and Bill of Elton, Chester – retirement Herbie worked in Shell UK. 28 May. Prior to retirement Bill worked at Chamberlain, Ann and Douglas of Stanlow Refinery in the Materials Section of Winterton-On-Sea, Norfolk – 1 Sep. Prior the Central Workshops. to retirement Douglas worked at Shell PLATINUM (70 YEARS) Haven. Edwards, Sally and Alan of Kirkton of Skene, Aberdeen – 27 Aug. Prior to Morne, Marion and Jim of Preston, retirement Alan worked for Shell Expro , Lancs – 27 July. Prior to retirement Jim Aberdeen. They celebrated with a family worked as a Tanker Driver at Church party in Swansea, and another celebration Depot and then at Preston. (Sadly, at the Shell Club at Woodbank. Marion has since passed away but Jim asked that we publish the announcement).

EMERALD (55 YEARS)

100TH BIRTHDAY Hodgson, Stella and Ron of Royston, Herts – 16 Jun. Prior to retirement Ron worked for Shell UK Oil Products, Watford.

Horsfield, Sylvia and Rowland of Bauld, Margaret and Sandy of Balfron, Sale, Manchester – 14 Jul. Prior to Glasgow – 6 Mar. Prior to retirement Sandy retirement Rowland worked for Shell UK worked at Bishopbriggs Depot. Oil Products. (Sadly, Rowland has since passed away but Sylvia asked that we Gordon, Christine and Alastair of publish the announcement). Aberdeen – 1 Jul. Prior to retirement Alastair worked in Shell UK Exploration Lucy McDonald of Upton on the Wirral, and Production, Aberdeen. Cheshire celebrated her 100th birthday on 14 July. PLR Derek Bryant visited on Harrison, Margaret and John of Upton, this special occasion. Lucy worked as Chester – 23 Sep. Prior to retirement John Secretary for the Finance Director in Shell worked in Oil Movements, Stanlow. Centre and on retirement was one of the first Shell Pension Liaison Representatives.

DIAMOND (60 YEARS) Phyllis Whitchurch of Wimborne, Dorset celebrated her 100th birthday on Blake, Sylvia and Gordon of Westcliff- Jarman, Glenys and Gordon of 16 September. She had a hectic but very On-Sea – 14 Jul. Prior to retirement Eastham on the Wirral – 14 Jul. Prior to happy birthday with family and friends. Gordon worked in Shell UK Materials, retirement Gordon worked at Thornton Phyllis recently wrote to PLR, Martyn Shell Mex House. Research Centre. Wallis, thanking him for her gift.

28 | SPA NEWS SPA OBITUARIES

Pensioners who are SPA members will automatically be included in this column. We are happy to include the death of a spouse of a SPA member but are totally reliant upon you advising us of the details. Please note that we are unable to print any obituaries that are over a year old. We regret to report the death of the following members:

Allen, Frank David (91) – Shell UK Oil Blyfield, Peter (85) – Shell Printing Ltd died Products Ltd died 13 August 21 June Allen, George (88) – Shell UK Oil Products Bowles, Mrs Doreen Renshaw (84) widow Ltd died 17 July of Edward – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd died 16 June Allen, John Harvey (89) SIPM died 22 July Bowles, Mrs Shirley Ann (77) widow of Anderson, Brian (83) – SIPM died 13 Michael John – Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd died August 22 May Arnott, Mrs Marian Mildred (92) widow of Brown, Mrs Adelaide (84) – Shell UK Oil Thomas – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 26 Products Ltd died 6 August May Brown, Frederick Carl (82) – Shell UK Oil Atkinson, Mrs Stella (95) widow of Gordon Products Ltd died 26 May William – Shell International Ltd died 16 June Brown, Gerald Lawrence (96) – Shell Crook, Mrs Eileen (91) widow of Kenneth – Bach, Richard David (74) – SMBP/Power/ Research Ltd died 16 June Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 3 August Nat.Benzole died 28 June Browne, Mrs Emmelienne Leone Jeanne Deadman, Mrs Paula Margaret (80) widow Baird, Colin Elsworth Arbuthnot (90) – Shell (100) widow of William Reynolds – Shell UK of Richard Walter – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd International Petroleum Company Ltd died 1 Oil Products Ltd died 24 June died 13 July June Brownfield, James Arthur (73) – SIPM died Delgado, Mrs Pilar Jimenez (84) – Shell Bamford, Robert Frederick (86) – Shell UK 20 August International Ltd died 13 May Oil Products Ltd died 26 June Buckle, Mrs Mary Primrose (89) widow Douglas, John William (77) – Shell Banks, Mrs Joan Reed (96) widow of John of Lewis Douglas – Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Chemicals UK Ltd died 3 August Brian – The Shell Petroleum Development Corp died 29 May Downard, Miss E V (92) – Shell Company of Nigeria died 9 July Buckman, Mrs Dorothy Ena (97) widow of International Petroleum Company Ltd died 26 Baracskai, Ivan (88) – Shell Chemicals UK Leslie John – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died July Ltd died 16 August 12 August Eden, David Ernest (84) – Shell Chemicals Barber, Mrs Patricia Leslie Monica (76) Budd, Mrs Doris Annie (102) widow of UK Ltd died 8 July widow of Richard Neil – Shell International Albert Edward – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd Eden, Roger Quentin (93) – Shell Ltd died 3 July died 16 July International Petroleum Company Ltd died 18 Barby, Mrs Marjorie Helen (95) widow of Bull, Ronald Edward Alfred (92) – Shell May Donald – SIPM died 12 July International Petroleum Company Ltd died 20 Edmundson, Derek (80) – Shell UK Oil Barnes, Anthony Reginald (88) – Shell UK July Products Ltd died 7 July Oil Products Ltd died 16 May Chapman, Walter Keith Clayson (97) – Etheridge, John William (86) – Shell UK Oil Beaumont, Mrs Janet (81) wife of Capt. SMBP/Power/Nat.Benzole died 14 July Products Ltd died 21 May Jack Beaumont – Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd died Clayton, Jeffrey Colin (84) – Shell Curacao Evans, Mrs Brenda Joan (73) widow of John 9 July Nv died 9 July David Goodman – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd Bebbington, Gordon Booth (95) – Colas Cochrane, Mrs Patricia Frances (90) widow died 14 June Products died 10 July of Archibald McIntyre – Shell Chemicals UK Evans, Lionel Barrie (76) – Shell UK Oil Bilney, John Hugh Garth (93) – Shell Ltd died 11 June Products Ltd died 27 May International Petroleum Company Ltd died 14 Cockill, Clarence Brian (80) – Shell UK Oil Ferguson, Kenneth (85) – Shell Chemicals August Products Ltd died 29 June UK Ltd died 26 May Birch, Maurice Charles (96) – SIPM died 25 Cole, Anthony (70) – SIPM died 15 May Finney, Peter “Magic” (68) husband of March Cooper, John Neve CBE (99) – Shell Jacqueline Roberts – Shell International Bishop, Ralph William (94) – Shell UK Oil International Petroleum Company Ltd and Wythenshawe died 13 May Products Ltd died 3 June President of SELKent SPA died 6 July Franklin, Mrs Helen Mary (96) widow Blackwell, Leslie Caradoc (84) – Shell UK Cooper, William David (74) – Shell of Ronald Achille Elia – Shell International Oil Products Ltd died 18 June Chemicals Ltd died 17 August Petroleum Company Ltd died 7 July Gage, Mrs Doris (94) – Shell UK Oil Products Bloyce, Brian Arthur (82) – Shell UK Oil Corbett, James Morrison (86) – Shell UK Ltd died 16 May Products Ltd died 2 August Exploration and Production Ltd died 8 July

SPA NEWS | 29 SPA OBITUARIES

Gardiner, Robert Knight (88) – Shell Hoesli, Peter (92) – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd Maher, James (79) – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd Chemicals UK Ltd died 19 May died 31 May died 24 May Gardner, Mrs Hilda (78) widow of Fred – Horsfield, Roland James (90) – Shell UK Oil Makepeace, Mrs Elsie Amy (95) – Shell Shell Research Ltd died 10 June Products Ltd died 31 July International Petroleum Company Ltd died 3 Garfield, Anthony Gwyn (83) – Shell UK Oil Hughes, Mrs Lucie Stella (81) widow of June Products Ltd died 31 July Lionel Victor – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died Manning, Mrs Rosa Alice (95) widow of Gentles, Douglas David (85) – Shell Tankers 16 May Albert Walter – SMBP/Power/Nat.Benzole (UK) Ltd died 7 August Hughes, Mrs Nellie (106) widow of Stanley died 30 May Giggens, Mrs Freda Lilian (91) widow of – SMBP/Power/Nat.Benzole died 29 July Martin, Noel (82) – Shell UK Exploration Peter George – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died Hunt, John Edward (88) – Shell UK Oil and Production Ltd died 6 July 14 June Products Ltd died 14 July Maxwell, Mrs Margaret (94) widow of Gilbey, Mrs Betty (93) widow of Edward Innes, Mrs Ann (84) wife of George – Brunei Robert Primrose – Shell International Petroleum Charles – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 15 Shell Petroleum Company died 5 June Company Ltd died 14 July August Irving, Mrs Bessie (87) – Shell UK Oil McBain, James Stuart (72) – Shell UK Oil Goldie, Donald Scott (91) – Shell Products Ltd died 9 May Products Ltd died 21 May International Petroleum Company Ltd died 6 Jacobs, James (81) – Shell UK Oil Products McInally, Mrs Elizabeth (85) widow of June Ltd died 19 July James Stevenson – SIPM died 13 June Goodey, Mrs Margaret Phylis (81) wife of James, Mrs Shirley (83) widow of Donald McMichael, Mrs Joyce Snowdon (94) Tom – Shell Haven died 28 July Peter – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 31 May widow of Hunter Thomson – Shell Tankers Goodlad, (UK) Ltd died 14 June Mrs Doreen (85) – Shell UK Jollye, Sidney Henry (93) – Shell Exploration and Production Ltd died 11 International Ltd died 8 June McMillan, Mrs Edna Doreen (90) widow of August James Keith – Shell Research Ltd died 31 July Jones, Alwyn Maelor (90) – Shell UK Oil Gordon Lee, Mrs Margaret Irene (92) Products Ltd died 20 June McNulty, Neil (66) – Basell Polyolefins UK widow of John Desmond – Shell International Ltd died 28 May Petroleum Company Ltd died 6 June Jordan, Mrs Joan (92) widow of A Jordan – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 2 July Meazey, Kenneth William (87) – Shell UK Graco, James Keith (67) – Shell UK Oil Oil Products Ltd died 3 June Products Ltd died 25 May Kerr, Mrs Henrietta (95) widow of Capt Charles Roderick – Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd died Mekie, Mrs Jean Scott (78) widow of Griffiths, Isaac (93) – Shell UK Oil Products 29 June Kenneth Haigh Cameron – Sarawak Shell Ltd died 17 July Berhad died 25 May Keys, Frederick W (94) – SMBP/Power/ Hammond, Mrs Sophia (90) widow of Nat.Benzole died 22 June Menzies, Donald (79) – Shell Chemicals UK Wilfred – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd died 4 June Ltd died 13 August Kirk, Mrs Beryl (83) widow of Terence Harding, John Edward (84) – Shell UK Oil Joseph – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd died 7 June Miles, Selwyn (78) – Shell UK Oil Products Products Ltd died 23 May Ltd died 14 July Knaggs, Edward Nicholas (79) – Shell Harkness, Herbert (66) – Shell UK Oil International Trading and Shipping Company Millward, Pamela (80) wife of John – Shell Products Ltd died 8 July Ltd died 6 August Haven died 7 June Hawkes, Mrs Barbara Doris (78) widow of Kneebone, Mrs Beryl Mary (92) widow of Mooney, Terence (76) – Shell UK Oil Brian Edward – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died Edward – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 3 Products Ltd died 4 June 15 June July Morgan, Howard Stanley (88) – Shell UK Hayes, Mrs Emily (90) widow of Arthur – Langley, Mrs Irene (88) – Shell Chemicals Oil Products Ltd died 27 June Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 18 August UK Ltd died 30 July Morne, Mrs Marion (90) wife of Jim – Heath, Sidney James (88) – Shell UK Oil Liddel, James Stuart (79) – Shell Chemicals SMBP/Power/Nat.Benzole died 30 July Products Ltd died 2 July UK Ltd died 3 August Nash, G J W (86) – Shell UK Oil Products Hewitt, Alfred James (90) – Shell UK Oil Little, Mrs Jane Margaret Rin (80) widow of Ltd died 21 August Products Ltd died 22 June Ivor William – Shell International Petroleum New, Dennis George (93) – Shell UK Oil Heyhoe, Michael John (84) – Shell UK Company Ltd died 21 August Products Ltd died 29 July Exploration and Production Ltd died 10 June Lloyd, Mrs Elizabeth Sophia (89) – SIPM Newell, Albert James (94) – Shell Chemicals Higgins, Robert Frederick (78) widower of died 31 May UK Ltd died 4 August Stella – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 27 June Lloyd, Fred (93) – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd Newton, Miss Joan Eleanor (85) – Shell UK Hill, Robert Alexander Howard (76) – Shell died 25 May Oil Products Ltd died 10 August International Petroleum Company Ltd died 9 Locock, Mrs Mary (92) widow of Leicester Osborne, David Alan (76) – Shell UK Oil August Malcolm – Shell International Ltd died 4 June Products Ltd died 28 August Hills, Mrs Christine Mary (74) – Shell UK Long, Norman (86) – Shell UK Oil Products Parry, Mrs Marie Therese (82) widow of Exploration and Production Ltd died 1 June Ltd died 11 August Richard Geoffrey Wynne – SIPM died 8 July

30 | SPA NEWS Pender, John Joseph (69) – Shell UK Oil Rosson, Gill (70) wife of David Kendall – Thompson, Mrs Maureen Frances (87) Products Ltd died 3 July Shell Research Ltd, Thornton died 25 March widow of Thomas George Lewis – Shell UK Petitt, Mrs Lorna Mary (65) wife of Ian – Saull, Mrs Rose (80) wife of Derek – Shell Oil Products Ltd died 20 June Shell UK Exploration and Production Ltd died Haven died 12 June Travers, Kevin (82) – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd 28 February Scales, Terry (77) – Shell Research Ltd died died 20 July Phillips, J J B (89) – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd 7 June Turner, James Charles (82) – Shell UK Oil died 28 May Scarsbrook, Mrs Gladys Mary (83) widow Products Ltd died 22 May Pitcher, Brian Ronald (73) – Shell UK of Ernest John – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died Upjohn, Christopher John (77) – Shell UK Exploration and Production Ltd died 27 July 14 August Exploration and Production Ltd died 10 May Pizzey, Mrs Irene Amelia Violet (86) widow Scott, Mrs Elizabeth Margaret (75) – Shell Upton, Trevor James (90) – Shell Chemicals of George Alick – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd UK Exploration and Production Ltd died 27 UK Ltd died 25 May died 21 May June Vincent, Mrs Jean Dora (83) widow of Potter, Mrs Veronica Ethel Maude (89) Searle, Mrs Maud Ethel (89) widow of Greville Noonan – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd widow of Russell John – Shell International Ltd James Frederick – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 11 August died 2 May died 28 April Visman, John Peter (81) – Shell Chemicals Prentice, Ronald Charles (81) – Shell UK Oil Sharp, P S (87) – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd UK Ltd died 1 June Products Ltd died 21 August died 29 July Walker, Mrs Joyce (91) widow of John – Prior, Francis Anthony John (77) – Shell Sheard, Michael Anthony (87) – Scallop Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 26 June Research Ltd died 12 June Petroleum Company, USA died 6 July Watson, Mrs Doris Joan (93) widow of Reade, Colin (80) – Shell UK Oil Products Smart, Ernest Arthur (93) – Colas Products Benjamin Walter Charles – Shell UK Oil Ltd died 31 July died 10 August Products Ltd died 15 April Rees, Eifion John (83) – Shell UK Oil Products Smith, Mrs Adelaide (95) widow of Ralph Watson, Gordon Hunter Beird (96) – Shell Ltd died 9 July Frederick – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd died 13 UK Oil Products Ltd died 28 May Reid, Joseph Paul (82) – Shell UK Oil June Watt, Robert Oswold (85) – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 27 May Smith, Mrs Mary Kathleen (91) widow Products Ltd died 7 July Rendall, Neville Anthony (87) – Shell UK of Laurence Harcourt – Shell International Webster, Alfred Bentley (88) – Shell Exploration and Production died 3 June Petroleum Company Ltd died 16 April Research Ltd died 7 June Smith, Rich, Dennis John (91) – SIPM died 28 Mrs Olive (88) widow of Daniel Westby, Mark David Phillip (55) – Basell August Beaton – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 13 Polyolefins UK Ltd died 6 August August Ridgway, Eric William (90) – Shell UK Oil Wetherly, Mrs Elizabeth Farquharson Sowter, Products Ltd died 20 July Peter (86) – Shell UK Oil Products Wishart (82) widow of Peter – Shell UK Ltd died 24 May Robinson, Isaac Charles H (88) – Shell Exploration and Production Ltd died 21 May Stanton, Research Ltd died 17 July Mrs Kathleen Maria (70) widow of White, Mrs Eileen Joyce (88) widow of Anthony David – Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd died Victor Reginald – Shell International Petroleum Rogers, Roy Charles (93) – Shell 2 June International Petroleum Company Ltd died 1 Company Ltd died 24 August Steventon, August Mrs Gladys Eileen (93) widow Whitnall, John Lee (93) – Shell Chemicals of George – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd died 22 UK Ltd died 15 July Rosinger, Herbert (92) – Shell Research Ltd July died 16 June Wickham, Francis Hugh (88) – Shell UK Oil Stuart, Malcolm (82) – Shell UK Exploration Products Ltd died 18 May and Production Ltd died 7 July Wilkinson, Philip Andrew (74) – Shell UK Sturrock, Gordon Randall (87) – Shell Oil Products Ltd died 7 August International Trading & Shipping Company Ltd died 14 July Willis, Mrs Margaret Alice (92) widow of Norman – Shell Chemicals UK Ltd died 16 Swift, John Ernest (91) – Shell UK Oil June Products Ltd died 28 June Wood, Mrs Kathleen Dorothy Haigh (87) Talbot, John Francis (82) – Shell UK Oil widow of Donald – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd Products Ltd died 16 August died 25 May Taylor, Anthony Michael (73) – Shell UK Oil Wood, Robert Alan (81) – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 29 May Products Ltd died 15 May Taylor, Malcolm (92) – Shell Research Ltd Wraight, Mrs E T (87) widow of Richard died 10 August William Cyril – Shell Research Ltd died 23 Thomas, Roy (91) – Shell UK Oil Products June Ltd died 14 July Young, Brian Walter (87) – Shell Chemicals Thompson, Mrs Margaret (96) widow of UK Ltd died 16 May John – Shell UK Oil Products Ltd died 24 June

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