Event

As usual, the restaurant was very busy over the 2014 weekend but fortunately folks had taken advice and booked for 5.30 pm or 6.00 pm.

Attended:-

• Bodill, Mick (2)
• Boyle, Peter (Sat)
• Bridson, Dave (2)
• Carlisle & Eurwin (2)
• Clydesdale, Bryan & Joyce (Sat)
• Crabtree, Dennis & Debbie (2)
• d'Arcy, Sam (Sat)
• Davis, Cyril "Cliff" and sons Karl & Kevin (2)
• Ellis, Jim & Mathias, Tony (Sat)
• Erskine, Barry & Anne (2)
• Farrell, Hugh & Esther (2)
• Flaherty, John (2)
• Gregson, Phil & Chris (2)
• Guymer, Bernie & Ann (2)
• Hilton, Bill (2)
• Imhof, Hans & Phyllis (Sat)
• Jenkins, John & Wendy (2)
• Lee, Mike (2)
• Moore, Les (2)
• Newton, Dave (2)
• Nuttall, Jeannie (2)
• Parker, Andy (2)
• Priest, Frank & Margaret (Sat)
• Quirk, Mike & Kath (2)
• Ratcliffe, Peter (2)
• Richardson, John (2)
• Richardson, Merv (2)
• Scott, Carlisle & Eurwin (2)
• Smith, Phil & Helen (2)
• Stringfellow, Arthur (2)
• Thackery, Gil (2)
• Tickell, Ian (2)
• Tomlinson, John (2)
• Van Toren, Adrian & Miriam (2)
• Wallace, Bill & Nora (2)
• Wile, John (2)
• Wright, John (2)

If you attended and your name is missing from the list please tell me and I will add you to it.

Had hoped to attend:-

• Moxen, Richard "Dick" - sailed with Martin Greenwood
• Owen, Ken & Pauline Tring
• Robertson, Neil & Howden, Bernie

• Atkinson, Frank D. - "Regret absence but will be on holiday. Best wishes."
• Corlett, Alan - Unfortunately I'm stuck in China on a ship repair and have no chance to get back to the UK for next weekend.Hope you all have a good evening.
• Downing, Arthur - in Australia - "Hope everyone has a great time and please pass on best regards to Gil Thackery et al,"
• Forest, John - working
• Fullam, Norman - "Very much regret unable to attend as I'm down here in Licata, Sicily onboard the Somers Isle doing work in a boatyard. Best regards to everyone and I hope you all have an enjoyable time in Liverpool."
• Greenwood, Martin - ". . . my apologies to all and best wishes, especially to Andy Parker, John Wile and the Richardsons"
• Humphreys, Neville - "Will be away - hope you have an enjoyable couple of days as usual."
• Molyneaux, Graham - have a prior engagement - Sorry!
• Monk, John & Sharon - "Best wishes to you all; hope that you have a brilliant time."
• Robinson, Richard - I will be working in Singapore. Hope you have another great re-union. Please give my regards and apologies to all the surviving re-unionists. Hope I can make it next year.
• Stone, Brian - ill and in hospital over the weekend.
• Tanner, Pat - "Sorry, will be on holiday"
• Welton, Chris & Janet - away.

Former PSNC Officers and family who have "Crossed the Bar" since our 2013 Reunion

• Bellew, Jim - Chief Steward
  Information received on 2nd February 2014 from Jim's son, also named Jim.
  "Sadly, my Dad "crossed the bar" on 31st January 2014.
  He started his PSNC career as a steward on the Orduna in Jan 1949. Thereafter, his ships included Orbita, Santander, Flamenco, Reina del Pacifico, Reina del Mar, Cotopaxi, Salamanca, Eleuthera, Cienfuegos, Cuzco, Potosi, Pizarro and his last ship was Salinas where he was Chief Steward until he left May 1967.

• Bomford, William Douglas - Shoreside Inspector
  Douglas passed away on September 17, 2013 at the age of 88 in Florida. He was born on February 16, 1925 in Wallasey.

• Chittenden, Liz - Purser
  It is with great regret that I have to inform you that Liz (nee Rybert) passed away peacefully in a Nursing Home on Tuesday 9 April, 2013.
  Her funeral took place on Monday 29 April at the Landican Crematorium, Arrowe Park Road, Birkenhead, Wirral CH49 5LW.   Liz's family have requested "family flowers only" please, but if donations in lieu were made to Cancer Research were appreciated.

Photographs

1.  Gill Thackery   John Flaherty,   Merv Richardson,   Bill Hilton

2.  Dave Bridson,   Ian Tickell,   John Wright,   Hugh Farrell

3.   Ann Copeland, Anne E., Esther F., Jeannie N., Miriam, Wendy J.

4.  John Wright, Bernie Guymer, Mike Quirk, Phil & Helen Smith, John Richardson, Peter Ratcliffe, Chris Gregson

5.   George? Tomlinson(Sorry), and Tony Mathias

6.  Dave Newton, John Jenkins, Adrian van Toren & Miriam, Debbie Crabtree, Jeannie, Wendy, Peter Boyle

7.  Margaret and Frank Priest

8.  Anne Erskine and Miriam

9.  Peter Boyle, Jim Ellis and Hugh Farrell

10.   Bill Wallace, Carlisle and Eurwen Scott, Nora Wallace

               
11.  Bernie Guymer, Phil Gregson, Sam d'Arcy, Mike Lee, Phil Smith                        12.  Dave Newton

If you took photos at the Reunion, send them to me and I will try to post as many as I can here.   Thanks.