not mine 116010681 Chapter 17 Confict Resolution Sanson Bretherton
THE ' OPUS Newslett… · ♦ Where appropriate locate + trace the life-stories post service PFBC...
Transcript of THE ' OPUS Newslett… · ♦ Where appropriate locate + trace the life-stories post service PFBC...
Poole Flying Boats Celebration Charity No. 1123274
Trustee Newsletter: Easter 2013
** PFBC progresses
Aye Ma'am and other
projects during 2013
With best wishes to You for Easter from the PFBC Trustees...
The new Pontiff - Pope Francis and the A of C - Justin Welby,
will be delivering Easter Messages and Blessings to millions,
no doubt referring to ‘a challenging world with global issues’,
inc. the crises in Syria, and the banking dilemmas of Cyprus !
Basra is still a troubled place, just as when Poole Flying Boats
in WW2 had to be diverted briefly via the Gulf of Aqaba etc.,
and I am reminded of another fascinating story, from Arabia:
This concerns Dubai, which opened as a Flying Boat stop in
1937 with passenger facilities, but mainly as a staging post…
However, when civil insurrection there, threatened to disrupt
IAL’s Routes, the two opposing factions reached agreement !
That was, for 3 afternoons-a-week they would stop hostilities
to allow for a peaceful passage of Flying Boats & Landplanes
- which gave a very different perspective on Civil Air Travel !
In WW2 new perspectives were emerging at Poole for BOAC
with the introduction of Seawomen & Stewardesses, and other
Female Staff (uniformed); + the contingents of WAAF at RAF
Hamworthy & Wrens at HMS Daedalus - RNAS Sandbanks !
THE
' OPUS
©
Within the Project there is Plenty of Scope for Your Research:
♦ The reasons + method of recruitment of Poole’s Seawomen
♦ Our Seawomen were unique: Look for military equivalents !
♦ 18 BOAC Seawomen when at the BOAC Marine Sch., Poole
♦ Instructors: Coursework /Curriculum /Practical Experience
♦ Those who graduated from this School to be deployed here
♦ Their Backgrounds + Personal Stories...and what happened
♦ Duties, Terms and Lengths of Service: The Kit + Uniforms
♦ Photos, News Reports, Articles + other Artefacts about them
♦ What occurred when the Seamen returned...What reactions ?
♦ Where appropriate locate + trace the life-stories post service
PFBC Honorary Positions & Life Members Foundation Trustees: Ken Sanson, Harry Alexander, Bertie Bowman
Aimée ( now Coordinator for PFBC Projects ) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PFBC Archivist: John Gully PFBC Library Volunteer: Val Lewis
Hon. Commodore, Air: David Mauleverer
Patron: Lady Cobham ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Honorary President: Jeremy Waters
Hon. Vice Pres: Leslie Dawson, June Topham, Douglas Cook OBE
Colin Cruddas, Norman Hull, John Parsons, Mike Phipp, Vic Pitcher,
Babs Plumbridge, Colin Pomeroy, Colin van Geffen & John Witcomb also including Ian Andrews (who Represents all of our HLMs)
Senior ‘Hons.’
within PFBC
Stop-Press: More News...
Next Newsletter will have
marvellous news about the
our Hamworthy Storyboard
...also another Blue Plaque
as a ‘private commission’...
John Gully has become the
PFBC Archivist to release
Aimée to concentrate upon
role of Project Coordinator
Val Lewis has volunteered
to look after PFBC Friends’
Library Collection on a part -time basis (approx. once-a-
month)… Why not join Val by becoming a volunteer too
so we can sort out day/time
to suit your commitments ?!
Project Dates to-date !
* Application Acceptance ► HLF Letter of 10th. January
General Announcements: ► Friends Spring Newsletter
Our Address to the RAeS ► 24th. January - B’mth Univ.
Our Project First Launch ► 7th. February - Haven Hotel
S.Poole Chairs LG Meeting ► 25th. February - Haven BC
Lilliput Residents’ Assoc. ► 26th. Feb. at PFBC’s Office
Bmth Red Arrows Address ► 5th. March at the Aero Club
AYE MA'AM well and truly !
Coxswain (Ist. Cl)
Mrs Nora Bevis of the respected
BOAC Marine-
craft Unit (MCU) based at Poole;
significantly the
last Seawoman ( Woman Seaman ! )
and most senior to serve here up
to 1948 the time
of the Transfer to Southampton
of Flying Boats
with closure of Salterns ~ Poole
Coxswain Nora Bevis
+ her lead-in Launch
Bosun Frank Hewitt + L→R: Isobel Rickard Mary Hill Bunny Reece Mollie Skinner a.n.other + Nora Bevis gathered on Poole Quay during WW2
For great News about this Project + lots more, please read on:
Poole Seawomen became
largely synonymous with
the BOAC Boeing 314As
Do You Remember any of this Group ? Relatives, Friends or Neighbours ?
HURRY * Harry has already selected Nora as his Special Area of Study
You can Choose one (or more) of
the 18 Seawomen
for your Research
Progressing PFBC ~ HLF Project ‘Aye Ma'am’
Progress Report Nº 1...March 2013
> Designation of Project Organisers and Team Leaders
> Determining the Parameters + Structure of the Project
> Identifying / Agreeing a Matrix of Areas for Research
> Prospecting the Components in our Project Timeline
> Presentation put-together to support Project Launches
> Recruitment of Friends of PFBC wanting to take part
> Acquisition of Materials and Equipment as required !
> Setting-up of Displayboards / Preparation of Displays
> Securing extra Room for our Project Group Meetings
> Scheduling Interviews for those relevant to our Study
> Establishing communication channels for Participants
> Making of Guidelines + Recommendations available
> Support networking to Advise, Assist and Encourage
> Collation of all Data with Information when received
> Accurate Keeping of Records (inc. Progress Reports)
> Info. Retrieval Systems put in place for PFBC Office
> Upgrade PFBC Computer Peripherals to facilitate this
> Obtain / prepare Course Books + Docs. for Participants
> Also develop /expand Friends of PFBC Library Coll.
> Keep Comprehensive Listing Book + Mag. References
> Access our Network of Aviation and Local Historians
> Contact with Specialists / Experts eg Women’s Studies
> Liaison with Local Interest Groups + Residents Assocs.
> Flight Paths for cascading our Project to general public
> Denote our Progress in Trustee + Friends Newsletters
* As time Marches-on we need YOU to be now involved !
Findings have confirmed that the origins of Air Stewardesses
on modern UK Airliners extend back to Poole & Hurn in WW2
after trials on the Foynes Shuttles, by Landplane from BOAC
Whitchurch, former base and Operational Centre near Bristol.
So what is the story here, about these Stewardess ‘Pioneers’ ?
Daphne Kearley prewar; Rosamond Gilmour (Whitchurch trial);
Helen Wigmore, Peggy Kyte, Momkea Winter, Jeanne Cox;
Jean Wortley, Barbara Baker who joined Rosamond on the
Poole Flying Boats, followed by others eg Marguerite Wilson,
who is easiest to research as she was a National News-Celeb.
Research is now indicating that there
must have once been around 100-200
Female Staff based at BOAC Poole, +
others who had a relevant association.
The number of Aircrew Stewardesses was small but significant,
and grew as the Springbok Route by BOAC Flying Boats opened
from Southampton through to Vaaldam (nr. Jo’burg) South Africa
~ also when temporary BOAC Hurn was replaced by Heathrow,
& Aquila Airways had a Flying Boat Swansong from the Solent.
Alongside the extraordinary achievements of Wrens & WAAFs
most recently recognised is that of the ‘Flying Nightingales’ the
Medics & Nurses who potentially had a WW2 presence at Poole
in accompanying the Wounded + former PoWs back to the UK !
If any of these aspects above, are of particular interest to YOU...
and your Friends, then please sign up to take part in our Project !
ALL CONTACTS PLEASE
Poole Flying Boats Celebration For the attention of:- - - - - - -
Parkstone Library Buildings
1 Britannia Road Parkstone
Poole Dorset BH14 8AZ For membership of Friends… and renewals contact Bertie Bowman.
For bookings of tickets for PFBC Celebrations contact Ken Sanson,
and all other general enquiries - PFBC’s Office new reg’d. address. PFBC Email: [email protected]
PFBC Website: www.pooleflyingboats.com
and please mark clearly who you are contacting…
This also includes PFBC’s
John Gully who has become
PFBC Archivist...and is now
initially focussed on special
interest of Imperial Airways
© 2013-14
Do You want
to Research
about Peggy
and /or Her
Colleagues ?
Let us Know !
Uniformed Female Staff:
Signals Team at Salterns
( for BOAC April, 1947 )
L→R: S/A I. Canetta S/C S.B.Heaney S/C P.J.Dean S/C S.Davie Dpty S.Off P.Oxley S/C A.B.Tomlinson S/C M. Dudley S/C J.E.M. Cooling S/C F.O. Bayley-Jones S/C D. Parsons
Notes: The Trainee’s Uniform worn by S/A I. Canetta
also the rectangular pattern of
buttons on front of the uniform: Deputy Signals Officer P. Oxley
Sunderland Mk III G-AGER frequent visitor to Foynes on the Poole Shuttle
Note: The larger lettering in the registration which dates this as 1943 → 44
also the wartime Camouflage and Lines denoting unarmed Civil Air !
When this came more under ‘the aegis’ of RAF Transport Command,
the new Regis. OQZR was allocated for the critical period of 1944/45
* Then the Regis. G-AGER was restored for moving towards the postwar era
and in 1945 a significant upgrade was undertaken for passengers, and with
new Pegasus engines fitted as a Hythe Class, G-AGER was named Hadfield
WW2 Censor has blanked out distinguishing features within photo’s background
Do You Recognise any of this Group ? Relatives, Friends or Neighbours ?
√
*