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Neil has been back in the UK since mid-2000, after a few years teaching in Spain. He's now working in Brighton as a European Funding Officer - where, we are pleased to observe, he appears very happy and settled. Brighton is an excellent place to live and work, though a tad expensive and parking your car is a nightmare!! Three of our immediate family now live in the City of Brighton and Hove (Neil, Helen and Jonah) - so perhaps we'll move down there one day (though it's doubtful).
Stephen, who has a BSc (2.1 grade) in Geography from Southampton University is now in Cali, the third largest city in Colombia, teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). Steve came home for Christmas 2004 (for the first time in 2 years) and again at Xmas 2005 and 2006. It was wonderful to see him each time and we hope he'll be able to visit the UK more often - on present plans he'll be over again in mid-2008 as he wants to experience the UK summer for the first time in many years!! He has a very beautiful Colombian girlfriend called Vanessa, which tends to detain him in Cali! It is a wonderful country and it's such a pity that it is so relatively impoverished on account of various factors. Will he bring Vanessa to see us - perhaps in July 2008? Watch this space!!
Helen, who has a BSc (2.1 grade) in Social Psychology, having studied at the University of Kent in Canterbury, is now the mother of Jonah, born on the 5th of August 2003 - so she won't be working at a full time job for a while (though she's doing a bit of childminding). She's now living in Brighton and is enjoying some maternity leave, but is finding motherhood no joke (Jonah seems to have a mind of his own - more so as he gets older)!!
is still enjoying early retirement from the NHS (which, paradoxically, made her ill by putting too much pressure on her!). She's now pretty OK and managing to do a lot of work for the community. From May 2000 - May 2001 she served as Chairman of Denby Dale Parish Council, but she gave up being a councillor in 2007.
** Click here for the very latest photographs taken in UK**
** Click here to view some shots in Photobucket of our holiday in Spain - March 2008** (there are various selectable viewing options including slideshow)
** Click here to VIEW some of my photos on the FLICKR photo-sharing website!** (there is also an option to view as a slideshow)
** Click here to VIEW some of my photos on the PICASA photo-sharing website**(there is also an option to view as a slideshow)
** Click here for Clarke family photographs taken at Christmas 2004**
** Click here for photos taken at our 30th Wedding Anniversary family 'do' in August 2005**

Visit by grandson Jonah in August 2007

Margaret on summit of Seatallan, Sept 2007
See below photographs relating to my former primary school - All Saints Church of England Junior Mixed School, Sutherland Road, Sheffield 4 - which opened in 1872 and (sadly) closed in 1969. The class photograph of Junior 4 was taken in 1954, when we were about to leave for "higher things". These photographs were kindly supplied by my very good friend and fellow pupil (since the age of five!), Eric Aston.

The buildings of my old school ('alma mater') on Orchard Lane, Sheffield, have now become part of the prestigious Leopold Square wining and dining development.
Of interest are : OMNES AMICI - the Sheffield City Grammar School Alumni Website. and also Friends Reunited (which has a section covering the school). The only very well known 'old boy' is Roy Hattersley, the former Labour MP (now Lord Hattersley). However, other contemporaries of mine have done particularly well (though I've not seen many of them for 50 years) - such as Roger Singleton, who recently became 'Sir Roger Singleton CBE'! There are many other contacts and items of information on the Omnes Amici and Friends Reunited websites. .I've been in touch all the time with Eric Aston, Jeanette Attwood, David Seton and Chris Linskill (indeed Chris was the best man at our wedding in 1975).
During 2003/2004, thanks to the power of the internet, a lot of the 'old lags' were traced and an excellent gathering of the clans took place in Rotherham (well, it had to be somewhere -so why not?) at the end of April 2004. Christine Brown, Valerie Duckworth and Philip Wright (Lord Wright of Kelham Island, as we affectionately refer to him), together with others "too numerous to mention", did lots of hard work to bring this about and we are enormously grateful to them all. Details of this 50th anniversary reunion (1954 - 2004) are on the Omnes Amici website, including various photographs.
The Sheffield City Grammar School Phoenix badge/logo - worn on the bottle-green caps and blazers!
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Holmfirth Choral Society - a local choir (I also do the website). Sheffield Bach Society - a choral and orchestral group based in Sheffield, UK. Sheffield Oratorio Chorus - an excellent choir also based in Sheffield. Huddersfield Choral Society - the world-famous Huddersfield choir (probably the best choir in the UK)!! The Huddersfield Singers - a long established and very well regarded small chamber choir. Making Music (Yorkshire Region) - formerly the National Federation of Music Societies or NFMS (I'm also at present the webmaster for this site). The Ramblers' Association - South Yorkshire and Northeast Derbyshire Area website (of which I'm also the webmaster). The Ramblers Association's National Website (working for the interests of walkers and lovers of the countryside). Denby Dale Parish Walking Group, a local organisation of which I'm a member and webmaster. The site includes walk dates/details and some photographs. Peak and Northern Footpaths Society. Please note that Peak and Northern Footpaths Society, of which I'm a member and the agent for North Kirklees and the northern part of West Yorkshire, is one of the oldest public footpath preservation societies in the UK and has a strong presence in the Yorkshire area. The Society is a charity and operates with a team of volunteers to preserve, to defend and maintain the rights of the public to use and enjoy on foot the public rights of way of the Peak District National Park and Northern England. For more information about the Society and how you can help with this valuable work, contact the Society's Secretary, the Peak and Northern Footpaths Society, Taylor House, 23 Turncroft Lane, Offerton, Stockport,SK1 4AB, by fax on 0161 429 7279 or send an email to Peak and Northern. Alternatively, I can let you have a membership form on request (please email me).
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The Sterndale Singers,an excellent chamber choir based in Sheffield, of which I was a member during the 1980s and still going strong (recently celebrated its 25th anniversary).
Concert Finder - an excellent database of Choral Concerts in the UK
Concert Diary - another excellent database of of concerts and musical information in the UK
Gerontius Net - Another excellent new music-related website, including a music-hire database, concerts database and much more.
Chamber Music - also an excellent source of musical and UK concert information.
Making Music (National Site) - formerly the National Federation of Music Societies or NFMS.
The Choral Public Domain Library - an incredible database and library of freely-downloadable and freely-performable non-copyright music.
John's downloadable mid-file Choral Music Site - an excellent source of FREE rehearsal aids for choral singers, with links to some other similar sites.
The Music Room - a further excellent musical events/listings (etc.) website run by Chris Tradgett (a choral singer/composer) and well worth exploring.
Also some interesting non-musical links:-
The Campaign for Real Ale ; CAMRA is a cause very dear to my heart (excellent 'traditional' British ale is one of the most important things in life)!!
RAW - Residents Against Windfarm - An organisation strongly opposing the proposal to erect a windfarm in one of the most scenically attractive parts of the Denby Dale area.
The Coffee-Beer Home Page. A fascinating website run by an American who now lives in Sheffield, England and appreciates our Good Beer, Good Pubs, Good Coffee and even Good Marmite!! Interesting, amusing, witty, informative and well worth exploring.
Further details follow as time allows!
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Thank you for visiting - please call again! Site last updated 5.5.2008
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