Spring 2021 www.oddfellows.co.uk Worcester News and Views News and views from your local friendship group My favourite Charitable A Poem that childhood photo Donations cheers me up Page 3 Page 7 Page 19 My favourite childhood photo Celebrations 2021 What my husband has been up to during lockdown Page 4 Old Worcester Royal Infirmary Worcester News and Views welcomeWorcester District Welcome to the latest Contact Details edition of the Worcester News and Views For more details about any of the events, membership and the I hope you and your families are wide range of benefits available, managing to stay safe and well during please call: these unprecedented and cruel times we find ourselves in. District Secretary: Sandra Loynes You will have noticed that we have not T: 01905 422591 sent you a new Events Diary, this is due E: [email protected] to the fact that we still don’t know as to when we will be allowed to have face to Address: face meetings again, once government 3 Windsor Avenue, guidelines allow such meetings we will Worcester of course let you know of any events WR2 5LZ that have been organised. via Zoom or a Conference Call, As you are probably aware our Annual I will update everyone on this as soon General Meeting is scheduled to take place on Saturday 27 March 2021 at as I have more information. the Barbourne Ex-Servicemen’s Club, The Moors, Worcester WR1 3ED at 2pm Yours fraternally Again as things stand we do not know whether or not we will be able to hold this Sandra meeting, if not, it will be postponed until Secretary, the end of April 2021 or held electronically Worcester District Lodge The Oddfellows is the trading name of The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Manchester Unity Friendly Society Limited, incorporated and registered in England and Wales No. 223F. Registered Office: Oddfellows House, 184-186 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3WB 2 Spring 2021 My favourite childhood photo By Elizabeth Russell It’s August 1958 and 12 year then they would be loaded onto the old Elizabeth is helping her trailer and taken into the barn ready father with the harvest. for the threshing machine. The photo was taken by a passing photographer The oats have been cut with the / journalist and was published in binder and the sheaves put into stooks. the Birmingham Weekly Post and Continual bad weather is causing havoc. The Farmers Weekly. Using pitchforks we were knocking down the stooks and turning over the Photo from Elizabeth Russell sheaves hoping they would dry in the sun, 3 What my husband has been up to during lockdown By Pat Lawrence My husband Kevin is very keen on making things out of junk. During lockdown he has made three styles of number plaques to identify our house, a large spitfire model which he displayed in our front garden for VE Day, spiders and their webs for Halloween and currently we have an eight foot long metal dinosaur which is entertaining all the children as they walk past our home. 4 Spring 2021 The origin of ward names at the old Worcester Royal Infirmary Wheeley Lea Bates Charles Wheeley Lea, a member of the One medical and one surgical children’s Lea Family, of Lea & Perrins (Worcester ward as a memorial to Mr Tom Bates Sauce) bequeathed £10,000 to the hospital (the younger) Hon. Surgeon 1909-1943. at the end of the 19th century but during his lifetime he and other members of the Bates Operating Theatre family had always been generous donors. named after Mr Tom Bates (the elder) who was Honorary Surgeon to the Ganderton Infirmary 1879-1910 and died in 1916. Charles Ganderton living in Pershore was engaged in the wool trade and in Joseph Banks Pathology Dept 1893 left a legacy of £7,000 to the Joseph Banks an industrialist from the Infirmary and also £500 to Pershore Black Country living in Hallow Park Cottage Hospital. Altogether he gave was Chairman of the Voluntary Hospital £21,000 to hospitals. 1932-1937. Both he and Mrs Banks were financial benefactors. Maddox Co-founder in 1745, Bishop of Worcester Nuffield Orthopaedic Dept Diocese 1743-1759 when he died. Named after Lord Nuffield (William Morris of Morris Motors and Rushout originally a Worcester boy). An enormous Sir John Rushout M.P. (1685-1775) benefactor to all hospitals including associated with Bishop Maddox and Dr. Worcester Infirmary. John Wall in founding the Silver Street Infirmary and was a financial benefactor. By Provincial Grand Master Brother John Bradley A bit about us… The Oddfellows is a friendly society with Branches across the UK. Through friendship and social events, we help our members get more enjoyment out of life, and offer care, advice and support in times of need. We welcome everyone of all ages. Find out more at www.oddfellows.co.uk or call 0800 028 1810. Photo of The old Worcester Royal Infirmary Chris Allen and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. 5 Worcester News and Views Celebrations Obituaries 2021 2020/2021 Sunday 25 April 2021 Memories comfort you for memories are treasures Royston Hamblett will celebrate his 80th Birthday. that time cannot destroy Monday 28 June 2021 Raymond Cook Audrey Openshaw will celebrate her 90th Birthday. Geoffrey Hunt Sunday 15 August 2021 Norma Harrison Elizabeth Bell will Eric Tomlinson celebrate her 80th Birthday. Eric Bourne Lily Pendrey John Attwood Joan Newnham Pam Maclean Join the conversation @OddfellowsUK Share your news, start a conversation or simply stay up-to-date! If you’re on Facebook or Twitter, make sure you’ve liked and followed our Oddfellows social media pages. Find us at: OddfellowsUK OddfellowsUK 6 Spring 2021 Charitable Donations Every year the Provincial Grand Master chooses a charity to which the District makes a donation, last year 2020, Bro John Bradley chose Friends of Worcester Heart Support Group to which a donation of £200 was made. The management committee also agreed to donate £200 to Acorns Children’s Hospice and £200 to St Richards Hospice as well as £200 each to the Oddfellows Society charities H.A Andrews Fund and the Orphan Gift Fund, a total of £1,000. Why not become If any member has a local charity that they an Oddfellows would like to be considered for a donation at the end of the year please send details pen pal friend? of the charity to the Secretary Mrs Sandra Loynes, 3 Windsor Avenue, St Johns, Worcester WR2 5LZ. With so many of us staying safe in our homes, how would you like to write a letter to another member and become a Penfellow? If the answer is yes, get in touch. Contact Sandra on 01905 422591 or [email protected] 7 Spring 2021 Riddle Time Answers on page 9 1. It’s shorter than the rest, but 12. What is as big as an elephant, when you’re happy, you raise it but weighs nothing at all? up like it’s the best. What is it? 13. Name a 7 letter word, from which 2. You can carry it everywhere you if you take out 4 letters, you will go, and it does not get heavy. have 1 left? What is it? 14. When you need me, you throw 3. The more you take, the more you me away. When you don’t leave behind. What am I? need me, you bring me back. What am I? 4. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter, 15. What can you hold in your left and twelve remains. What am I? hand but not your right? 5. You see a boat filled with people. 16. Trevor pointed to a girl in the You look again, but this time you street and said, “She is the don’t see a single person on the daughter of my grandmother’s boat. Why? only child.” What is the girl’s relationship to Trevor? 6. What word of five letters has only one left when two letters 17. A man is driving along and sees are removed? three doors: a diamond door, a ruby door, and an emerald door. 7. A bus driver goes the wrong Which does he open first? way on a one-way street. He passes the cops but they don’t 18. What is at the beginning of stop him. Why? eternity and at the end of time, is in every race, but is always 8. What is at the end of a rainbow? last in line? 9. How many bricks does it take 19. If there are three cups of sugar to complete a building made and you take one away, how of bricks? many do you have? 10. A rooster lays an egg at the very 20. What exists when one person top of a slanted roof. Which side has it but ceases to exist when is the egg going to roll off on? another person gets it? 11. Where can you finish a book without finishing a sentence? 8 Riddle Time answers from page 8 Prison. 11. A secret A 20. t lay eggs lay t Neither, roosters don’ roosters Neither, 10. t here were. here a building a complete - brick One 9. have. The rest still remain where where remain still rest The have. took away and that is all that you you that all is that and away took e letter W letter e Th 8. One, as that is the only one you you one only the is that as One, 19.