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by: Phil Reynolds himself County and Other Events Friday, Saturday & Sunday 11th-13th July 2008 Kent Bees and Honey Show - Organised by the Kent Beekeepers’ Association in conjunction with Dover, Medway and Thanet Beekeepers’ Associations. (entries close 4th July) Venue: Kent County Showground, Detling, Maidstone, Kent. Show Secretary: Mrs. M. Hill, Whittington, Old Wives Lees, Canterbury, CT4 8BH. Tel: 01227 730477.Email: mary.hill@tesco.net. Download Show Schedule PDF [144KB] Obituaries |
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is now hosting its own website on Kentbee.com. The new URL is: http://www.kentbee.com/bromley Funeral of Tom Winks BRITISH BUMBLEBEES AT THE BRINK: With "three of the 19 UK species" of bumblebees already extinct, and a another 9 on the "critically- endangered list," scientists are scrambling to halt the decline says BBC News 5/5. "Largely due to intensive farming practices" the bees are disappearing at "such an alarming rate" that they could be "wiped out within a few years." Since the bees are "major pollinators of wild flowers" their "die out" would be a "tragedy and an environmental disaster." (C) ESC/GREEN (BUMBUS-L). Bees and Honey Show. Organised by
the Kent Beekeepers’ Association in conjunction with Dover,
Medway and Thanet Beekeepers’ Associations at the Kent County
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Jack
was born on the 26th June 1917 the youngest of five children.
He had a very varied working life starting first as an apprentice
engineer in Powerhouse (Halix) plastic factory at Hale End Near
Chingford. He joined the Merchant Navy and qualified as a Fellow
of the Institute of Marine Engineering and Chief Engineer.. He
was at sea when war was declared; during this time his ship took
bombs and ammunition to Basra and Iraq as well as a train at one
time to Australia. On the return journeys they brought back food
etc from places such as New Zealand, Argentina, Australia and many
other countries. ln 1945 he left the Merchant Navy and returned
for a short time to work back at Powerhouse. He then went into
the Civil Service Ministry of Works; being posted to Woomera Australia
on the Blue Streak Rocket project. Subsequently he came back to
England into the Prison Commission dealing with security.Jack retired
at 61 years at which time he took up beekeeping, having been very
interested in it for a long time. He started with the Croydon Beekeepers
before joining the Bromley Branch; he took a beekeeping course
at Hadlow with Brian Palmer. For eight years Jack and his wife
Ethel were wardens for the caravan club in Shropshire; during which
time he took his bees with him. Jack and Ethel both made extensive
trips to Australia at one time doing over 24,000 miles. Jack met
Ethel his wife while working at Powerhouse and they had been married
over 66 years. We shall all miss Jack and he will always be remembered
as a kind and gentle man. Our thoughts are with Ethel and their
family at this time. Barbara Watson