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Dora Durbidge D K


ora Durbidge (nee Armstrong) was born in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire and was employed by Nottingham- shire County Library from 1944 to 1962, where she met and married Lionel Durbidge in 1960. She worked in the Lending Section, Headquarters


Departments, branch libraries and Saxondale Hospital (a men- tal health institution). Lionel’s career then took them to Hemel Hempstead for the next three years before they moved back to the East Midlands when Lionel took up a position at Loughborough Technical Col- lege (which was subsequently amalgamated with the university). Dora was occupied with raising her children and then looking


after her elderly parents for several years before returning to work part time in 1976 at Loughborough University. Firstly cataloguing maps in the Department of Geography and then as a Bibliographical Researcher in the Department of Education until 1991.


She enjoyed a quiet retirement with Lionel until he died in 2008 and remained independent in her own home supported by her daughters until she passed away in October 2019 aged 91. She leaves two daughters, Jane and Helen, and four grandchildren.


Jane Lake, daughter


Ken Thimbleby


en Thimbleby and I were friends for 78 years. We met at school in wartime Catford, then recipient of various forms of Hitler’s bombardment, so classes some- times took place in a dank, dark cellar and we sat on sandbags.


Because regular teachers were called up, tuition was no in the hands of unqualified teachers who resorted to fascinating, unorthodox methods that we walked about for years. We left school at 16. After National Service, Ken followed my choice to enter library service. Ken’s career was spent almost entirely in branch libraries. The systems he worked in were (in sequence) Camberwell, Southwark, St Marylebone, West- minster, Edmonton, and finally Redbridge. Ken enjoyed giving direct personal assistance to readers in their choice of books. On retirement to Bideford, his service to individuals continued in Meals on Wheels, Books on Wheels, and pastoral counselling with visits to the sick and elderly.


Over the years I visited and stayed with Ken and his wife Kathleen, whom he met in the Camberwell system. Kathleen and their first child Christine are now deceased. Ken is survived by his son David and his younger daughter Rosemary. In his last years, Ken drew on his book knowledge again and worked in Barnstable Oxfam bookshop. He began to suffer from Parkinson’s disease, finally necessitating staying in a care home. To the end he was a good friend, listener and letter writer to people old and new – thoughtful, responsive, witty. He maintained an amazingly detailed daily diary requiring several suitcases. Ken shared many interests – ideas, classical music, literature, play-reading, cats, gardening, country walks, dining out, holidays, and more.


I feel privileged to have enjoyed a long friendship that will always evoke a wealth of happy memories.


Alan R. Thomas.


Shane Godbolt. Shane, who passed away on 24 November, was former Director of Partnerships in Health Information. An obituary will follow.


For obituary submissions and guidance please email InfoPro@cilip.org.uk or write to us at Obituaries, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE.


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