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Terri Forbes
Guest
| | Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 - 03:08 pm: |   |
AS Macmillan Cancer Support was founded in 1911 we are currently planning for our centenary next year. As such, I would like to appeal to your readers to assist me in our planning by sharing their experiences of Macmillan to help us to paint a picture of our history as well as celebrating the last 100 years. We are hoping to hear personal stories and accounts from your readers who have experienced help and support from Macmillan, particularly from the early years of the charity.
We are also keen to hear from any past or present Macmillan professionals who could share their experiences with us.
If anyone has a story about Macmillan they wish to share, contact Laura Mitchell in our regional communications team on 01264 343807.
TERRI FORBES,
Communications Department. |
Judy Hayman
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 - 10:55 am: | |
I REFER to the letter from Sir Peter Spence of Action for ME in the Guernsey Press of 25 August.
Could I point out to him that 4,217 of us have already completed a survey by the ME Association, the results of which were published in May and in which 56.5% of patients who had been prescribed graded exercise therapy reported they were made worse by this.
Might I suggest that Action for ME could use its time and funds more profitably by getting the NICE guidelines changed on the treatment for ME. I am led to understand that Action for ME has been supportive of graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural treatment and hence these two treatments form the basis of the NICE guidelines, much to the fury of most ME patients.
On Monday 23 August, the research findings of the Whittemore Peterson Institute in America have been confirmed in that a large number of ME patients have been found to be suffering from a new retrovirus, XMRV.
Come on Sir Peter, let us at last concentrate on getting some research carried out into this disease, which is affecting a large number of people, particularly the young. This disabling disease has been ignored for at least 25 years. What a disgrace is that.
As someone who has been lucky enough to have found help, I try and fight for those less fortunate. Over the years, I have met and spoken with some of the most severely disabled ME patients, which I can only tell you has left me in profound shock and despair at the lack of help available to them.
How does this affect Guernsey? Several people here suffering from ME will relate to what I am saying and also, in the past, considerable sums of money have been raised in the island for this charity.
JUDY HAYMAN |
Chris Bates
Guest
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 - 02:57 pm: | |
RECENTLY, the Mayor of Keighley in West Yorkshire, Councillor Margaret Ward, was in Guernsey to represent the town at the 70th anniversary celebrations to mark the evacuation of the island’s children to safety in England as the Germans approached. Many of the Guernsey evacuees, with their teacher, Mr Brehaut, reached Keighley and were mostly billeted in the districts of Cross Roads and Haworth – the latter of course best known as the home of the Bronte sisters and the world famous Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
In a recent issue of the magazine of the railway’s preservation society, there was an article prompted by the popularity of Haworth’s 1940s weekend and its annual restaging of the arrival of evacuees at Haworth station – by steam train, of course. All very well, wrote the contributor, but did it really happen? His recollection (as someone who lived through the war in Haworth) was that while there were some London children in Haworth, most soon returned home and only the Guernsey evacuees had to persist with their exile. But he didn’t recall ‘an arrival’ at Haworth station in the way it has now become part of a hugely popular pageant.
The Mayor of Keighley says in the Town Council newsletter that at least one Guernsey girl returned to Yorkshire to marry a Haworth lad and that Haworth, Keighley and district’s role in helping to keep safe from the Nazis the island’s children, is remembered with great affection in Guernsey. So, in the hope of prompting a ‘definitive’ article on the subject in the railway’s magazine (the somewhat idiosyncratically titled ‘Push and Pull’), does anyone know if any of the evacuees did arrive in Haworth by train or travel regularly on the line? Or is it all a largely enjoyable figment of our collective imaginations? I suspect there will be some people still alive in Guernsey with all-too vivid memories of what must have been a terrible wrench from home to the mills and moors of wartime industrial Yorkshire. More about the railway on www.kwvr.co.uk.
CHRIS BATES,
Editorial assistant,
Push and Pull magazine,
KWVLR, Haworth Station,
Keighley, BD22 8NJ.
CBates7147@aol.com. |
Sir Peter Spencer
Guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 03:14 pm: | |
HAVE any of your readers with M.E. (also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) tried graded exercise therapy, graded activity therapy or exercise on prescription? If so, we need them to tell us about their experience.
There are significant variations between the outcomes reported by NHS clinics and those reported to us by large numbers of people with this illness. We are working to find out why.
If you have tried one of these physical rehabilitation approaches, which one was it, how did it go and who administered the treatment?
Please tell us by taking part in our survey, online at www.afme.org.uk or phone for a copy on 0117 9301325.
SIR PETER SPENCER,
Chief Executive,
Action for M.E. |
Alan Cockayne
Guest
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 03:59 pm: | |
WALKING down to Fermain Bay on Sunday 25 July, I noticed the hedges had been cut and glinting in the sun was the end of a bottle, which I managed to retrieve.
It was green/brown and around eight inches tall with a stopper, which I believe could be cork. There was also liquid in it. Stamped on the front was Collenette Guernsey.
I have looked on the net to see if I could find out more about the bottle but the only thing I have found was one Adolphus Collenette (1841-1922) who had a mineral water factory, I presume in Guernsey.
Does anyone know the history of this man and his bottles?
ALAN COCKAYNE |
R. J. Le Moignan
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 - 03:34 pm: | |
I AM seeking information relating to this photograph.
I first saw this photo on a display board at the liberation celebrations event held at the Elizabeth College this year. The fireman on the extreme right is my father, on the extreme left is my uncle Stanley Le Cheminant, who lived at Stanberth, Jerbourg Road, St Martin’s.
I know that someone else, possibly the original supplier of the photo, knows the identity of at least one other fireman and maybe more.
I would ask that anyone who can help to identify any or all of the men in the line to contact me on email ron@ cwgsy.net.
Thanking you in anticipation.
R. J. LE MOIGNAN.
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Wez Thompson
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 02:26 pm: | |
I LIVED in Guernsey from 1984-90 as my mum was born there. I still have an aunty living in the island who is going to pick me up from the airport.
I attended Vauvert Primary School and the second photo was taken on my last day there. ‘We’ll stay in touch,’ we all said, never happened though. That would have been taken in June 1990. I remember Matthew Ewins, who is next to me, Gareth and Darren. Darren helped me collect vouchers from crisp packets so I could get a free video. Funny the memories that you keep.
Before I left we had a football party for my eighth birthday. Jonathon Robilliard and Laura Jane Robilliard are in that photo – I’d love to speak to them again. Other names I have are Matthew Brehaut and Steve and Val Le Tissier. But that’s as far as the names go.
We left in ’90 and moved to the Midlands. I left in 2004 to start my job with BFBS being a radio DJ for the forces all over the world. I’ve been to Germany, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, Cyprus and, this year, Afghanistan. I presented the breakfast show from Camp Bastion. After I left, David Beckham went over on a morale-boosting mission. Ah well, always next time.
So I’m heading over to Guernsey on the 10, 11 and 12 of July in an attempt to find my old friends and make some new ones. If you could help, that would be brilliant.
People who remember me will know me as Wesley, the little blond boy who wouldn’t say boo to a goose. How times have changed.
WEZ THOMPSON,
wez_thompson@ hotmail.com
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Dr Louise Willmot
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2010 - 02:24 pm: | |
MYSELF and two other historians are currently researching a book about resistance in the Channel Islands and would like to appeal for information about the slave labourers who were brought to Guernsey to build fortifications during the Second World War.
In particular, I would like to hear from local people who witnessed the arrival and treatment of the OT workers, or whose families offered them food and other forms of help.
Much less is known about conditions in the Guernsey camps than about their counterparts in Jersey. We do not know how easy it was for labourers to escape, although we do know that some Guernsey people provided them with food.
I would also like to appealing for information from Guernsey people with personal knowledge of Marie Ozanne, the Salvation Army member who protested to the Germans about the treatment of OT workers and who died early in 1943 at the age of 37 after a period spent in prison.
We historians - myself, Dr Paul Sanders and Dr Gilly Carr - aim to provide a comprehensive account of the many forms of resistance offered by ordinary residents during the German Occupation.
I will be in the island from 4-16 July, but can be contacted anytime at the address below and will reply to all correspondence.
With thanks in advance for any information you are able to share.
DR LOUISE WILLMOT,
History department,
Manchester Metropolitan University,
Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M15 6LL. |
John Vost
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 - 02:44 pm: | |
I AM seeking information regarding Channel Islands cabinet makers in the 18th and early 19th century and wonder if your readers can help me in any way.
There does not appear to be any publications on the subject and I am exploring the viability of such an undertaking. Any information that your readers may have would be gratefully appreciated.
JOHN VOST.
enquiries@ vosts.co.uk |
Molly Bihet
Guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 02:29 pm: | |
I HAVE received a letter from a James Clydesdale, who had originally written to me in January 1995 telling me of his time in Guernsey over Liberation period 1945.
He also spoke highly of some five or six boys and girls who were Guernsey evacuees and who were invited by his mother to their house for tea and sometimes a walk to the local park. He missed them when they left as he said they were a cheery group, living at Pollokshaws in 1940.
I did print most of his interesting letter when I had 'A time for memories' printed (with other accounts). Now he writes to tell me he has recently met up with Guernsey evacuees visiting Glasgow and one lady, 'Catherine Bott' gave him my book, which he wants to thank her for.
I have a letter for her and would be grateful to hear from her or anyone (his request), who might remember Poloc Church.
MOLLY BIHET.
P. S. He writes: 'I was a nest egger and wear my Liberation medal.' |
Sue Hughes
Guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 02:28 pm: | |
LAST August I was very fortunate to be able to travel with a friend to attend a 50th wedding anniversary. I spent the two days in the Priaulx Library and was able to find so much information that I am sure there must be people in Guernsey who had the same great-grandfather as I had.
Legg descendants - we are looking for descendants of Gladys, Lillian, William, Eva, Winnifred and George Legg, born in St Peter Port between 1893 and 1901, whose father was William George Legg, a brother of our grandfather, George Henry Legg, a mariner who settled in New Zealand and whose father, George Legg, while Master of the barque Crested Wave, with crew rescued the crew from the schooner Jane in 1882.
Please phone Keith Legg on 01580 893002 or write to 13, Stanley Close, Staplehurst, Kent, TN12 0TA, or to Sue Hughes, 11, Tuarangi Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, New Zealand or email hughes.suzie@gmail.com.
My friend said you have had some great successes through your paper and I am hoping we will also be able to find some long lost relations.
Thank you very much.
SUE HUGHES. |
Mike Crowe
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 - 03:29 pm: | |
MAY I extend an invitation to any reader who has served in the electrical, radio, radar, weapons or control branch of the Royal Navy and is looking for his ex-shipmates, to join the Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association with its new search facility.
The association is designed to reunite you with your old shipmates via membership lists, a regular newsletter and the ever-popular reunions where old shipmates have met up again and many new friendships been formed.
Further details and the latest colour newsletters, our best yet which describes a fantastic day observing today's training methods, are available from Mike Crowe, RNEBA, 7, Heath Road, Lake, Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 8PG, or drop me an email at mike.crowe1@btinternet.com
But that is not all. Thanks to a member's suggestion, we are implementing a special and comprehensive 'member's ships list' in order that we can search out your old shipmates and contact you when we find someone you served with. A great association gets even better.
No, we will not tell them you are in the association, we will ask you if you want contact - after all you may have pinched his girlfriend or owe him a fiver.
Contact me now, find your ex-shipmates and start swinging that lamp with them.
MIKE CROWE,
Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association, 7, Heath Road, Sandown, Isle of Wight,
PO36 8PG. |
Lynda Thomas
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 - 02:14 pm: | |
A GROUP of nurses are urging people in Cornwall to hold summer tea parties to raise funds for charity.
The nurses of Marie Curie Cancer Care's Truro office held their own party with plenty of tea and cake today to launch the charity's Blooming Great Tea Party appeal.
They are urging people across the county to hold their own parties from Saturday 12 June to Monday 12 July to help fund more nurses.
Lynne Wotton, who is based in Truro, said: 'Anyone can get involved with a garden party, afternoon tea or a gathering with friends.
'It's such an easy way to get together. The money raised by simply popping the kettle on will help more Marie Curie nurses provide free care to patients with terminal cancer and other illnesses in their own homes.'
For a fund-raising pack, please call 01872 260 500 or visit www.mariecurie. org.uk/teaparty.
LYNDA THOMAS,
Community fund-raising manager,
Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands |
Jonnie Guernsey
Guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 02:58 pm: | |
MY NAME really is Jonnie Guernsey and I hope to visit Guernsey Island within the next two years with a friend who also has ancestors from the island.
We are interested in corresponding with someone who has lived in the island for a long time, or was born there. If you are able to help us make a connection with an agency or the Chamber of Commerce, or anyone who might be able to locate someone willing to communicate with a couple of American women eager to learn more, I would greatly appreciate your efforts.
JONNIE GUERNSEY,
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53207.
Email: Jonnieguernsey@ milwpc.com |
Yvonne Osborne
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, May 10, 2010 - 12:22 pm: | |
DOES anyone know anything about the liberating forces coming ashore at Pembroke on 9 May after making a hole in the wall to get their lorries, jeeps etc. through?
I would love to know if what my husband said was right.
YVONNE OSBORNE |
Save The Children
Guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 02:15 pm: | |
EMERGENCY fund-raisers in Guernsey and the Channel Islands swung into action with incredible speed in response to the January earthquake that struck Haiti killing more than 200,000 and affecting two million lives.
UK supporters raised more than £12m. as part of the $60m. Save the Children response, enabling the charity to reach 554,000 people to date; among them at least 330,000 are children. It has been no mean feat to raise so much and I know that no small amount of personal sacrifice has been involved. I just want to thank everyone who supported the relief effort. Rest assured, the hard work continues. Save the Children aims to reach 800,000 children and families during the arduous recovery process.
From 25 April to 1 May 2010, Save the Children runs its biggest nationwide fund-raising week to raise money to help children survive in the world's poorest countries. Whether we are responding to the worst imaginable disasters like that in Haiti or helping children and families living in poverty - we are on the front line getting help to the people who need it most.
In 2009 we reached over seven million people. Earlier this month I visited Sierra Leone and witnessed some of our life-saving work supported by fund-raisers here in the UK. I found it truly awe-inspiring to meet a mother and her newborn baby, both of whom may have died were it not for the care received at our maternal and newborn unit. I met children receiving treatment to help them recover from diarrhoea, avoiding death because Save the Children is funding basic healthcare like oral rehydration salts that cost just 50p for a course of 10 sachets. Just a few examples out of millions - but the impact of our work is real. Shockingly, nearly nine million children under five die each year of preventable diseases such as pneumonia, measles, diarrhoea, malaria, HIV and AIDS - we want to save everyone.
Together we can save the lives of more innocent children. That's why I'm appealing to your readers to take part in Save the Children Week 2010. For more information, visit www.savethechildren.org.uk.
Save the Children,
1, St John's Lane,
London, EC1M 4AR. |
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