Week beginning October 13th 2003

Hedon Red Cross volunteers honoured : At the Red Cross Annual Assembly on Wednesday 1st October, several members of the Hedon branch received awards. Andrew Walker and Sue Wymark were presented with Branch Commendations - Andrew for his practical support of the Centre in addition to his willingness to work with the centre’s young adults, as well as being the Medical Loans Co-ordinator and Quartermaster of the Centre, and Sue for her willingness to support all things Red Cross, and Jack Mimmack was awarded his 15 year service medal.
Centre organiser Anita Hall also received an honour : she was previously awarded the Badge of Honour for Devoted Service in May 1998 and this year was awarded a second Badge of Honour, this time for Outstanding Service. This year also saw her achieve her Voluntary Medical Service Medal (VMSM) which signifies 15 years of continuous qualification in first aid and related services to the Society.

Hedon Women’s Institute : Hedon WI will be holding their Annual General Meeting on Tuesday October 13th starting at 7.30 p.m. The meeting will be followed by coffee and cakes, and members are reminded that if they wish to attend the Hedon WI’s 75th birthday dinner in December a £6 deposit is required by this meeting.

Hedon and District Local History Society reminder : please note the change of venue for the next meeting of the Hedon and District Local History Society. It will take place on Tuesday, October 14th at 7.30 pm in the Church Room, Magdalen Gate (the entrance is right at the back of the Magdalen Gate car park.) The speaker will be Richard Walgate and his subject will be memorial inscriptions in local churches. Everyone interested is invited.

South Holderness School scholarships available : The trustees of the Cecil William Rutherford Scholarship Trust have money to give away!! But before you all rush to apply, there are strict conditions to these scholarships : first of all, applicants must be ex-pupils of South Holderness School. Secondly, they must have already started the course for which they are applying for a scholarship, and it must be at an institution of further or higher education in the United Kingdom. Lastly, the course must be at a level equivalent to or above Intermediate Level of the General National Vocational Qualification and must include at least a substantial element of one or more of the following five subjects: electricity (including electrician and electrical engineering), plumbing, building (including all building trades training that incorporate part-time study as well as related FE or HE full-time courses, e.g. quantity surveying), architecture or medicine (including nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacy, ophthalmic optics and other biomedical courses.) The scholarship can only be awarded after the qualifying course has been started.
The scholarship is the result of a bequest in the will of Ellen Palmer (1899-1991) who was born in Hedon and was educated at the local Hedon school. She never married but had a very full and interesting life, including working at Madam Clapham's, the Couture House in Kingston Square, Hull which made clothes for royalty. At one time Ellen modelled and acted as mannequin for costumes for the Queen of Norway whose measurements her own figure presumably equalled. She brought up and looked after her nephew Cecil, her sister’s child, and kept house for him until he died in 1990 at the age of 77.
Cecil Rutherford and his four younger brothers were all educated at St. John's Church of England School, Newland, Hull. The family over the years trained a number of apprentices most of whom would have come from the South Holderness catchment area, and Cecil himself did work for the then South Holderness Comprehensive School, Station Road, Preston.
Therefore these were the two schools chosen by Ellen Palmer as beneficiaries under her will : a scholarship has to be awarded to ex-pupils of each school every other year and the Trustees started with South Holderness School. The subjects chosen by her for scholarships, namely electricity, plumbing, building, architecture and medicine, represented work interests of various members of the family from her father's uncles to his grandchildren.
The money for the fund became available for use in 1995, and applications for this year are being invited now: contact the CWRS Trust, PO Box 69, Baker Street, Kingston upon Hull, HU2 8HS for the forms, which have to be returned before November 12th for consideration by the trustees in December.

Church Services for Sunday October 19th
Hedon : St. Augustine’s Parish Church : Sung Eucharist at 9.30 a.m.
Hedon Methodist Church, Church Lane : Holy Communion service at 10.30 a.m., evening service at 6.30 p.m.
SS Mary & Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Baxtergate, Hedon : Daily Mass times : Sunday 10.30 a.m., Monday 9.15 a.m., Tuesday 9.15 a.m., Wednesday 7.30 p.m., Thursday 9.15 a.m., Friday 7.30 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m.
Hedon Pentecostal Church meets every Sunday at 10.30 a.m. in the Jubilee Room of the Alexandra Hall, St. Augustine’s Gate; a Sunday School is also held at 10.30 a.m. every Sunday.
Paull : St Andrew’s Parish Church : Sung Eucharist at 11.15 a.m.
Paull Methodist Church, Main Street : no service this week – next service will held on Sunday October 26th
Preston: All Saint’s Parish Church : Morning Worship at 11.00 a.m.
Preston Methodist Church : morning service at 10.30 a.m.