Yet More Fond Memories ofMembers Past


Lawry’s season was followed by Bob Chester. I think John Challis brought Bob into the Club. He was an ironmonger who had a shop in Station Lane, Hornchurch. He had been there years - a wonderful old shop, typical of the ‘fork handles’ sketch. It was so like that. Bob was a one-off character who was also extremely fond of sport and took part in everything. He was one of the most popular chaps in the Club. Everything went very well that year.


Stan Gunary was very good to Bob. He took him under his wing and took him to St. Andrew’s golf. Bob did not drive and never had a car. I don’t know how he managed in those days, but they were always at home and he was one of the nicest fellows you could meet. Once again, he had a very good year with all the usual things very well supported by everybody. Our sporting activities went very well and raised quite a lot of money, too.


Bob Chester was followed by Norman Moore. Norman was first brought into the Club by Charlie Olley. His father-in-law had a contracting firm in Gidea Park. Norman took over and was manager for many years. He was very likeable and a bit of an extrovert. He was always up to something lively. His wife May was delightful; they lived in Main Road, Gidea Park. He had two brothers, both of whom were in the firm. It rapidly grew and business-wise they did very well. They moved from Gidea Park to Margaretting where they had a lovely home and did a great deal of entertaining with the Rotary Club there. He had a swimming pool. His year we had a lot of meetings there and used to have a nice swim. Apart from that, he was also very busy in the Club. The business got bigger and bigger, as they had always done a lot of council work. Finally he worked for Fords.


At the Ford’s works in Dunton, Norman was involved in a contract to build a race track round the outside for testing. Unfortunately, they got the contract wrong and Norman lost a great deal of money over it. He worried terribly. May was a brick when they had such a bad time. He managed to keep his house in Ingatestone and also his Rolls Royce. Norman was never the same after that. May had bad health to finish with and he nursed her for a long time.


We had some lovely times with Norman. He always came with us to Scotland and we went to a place called Kerrymuir with the Wilsons and Dobsons.


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