Home Page of Pete & Beth Powell

This is Beth

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... and this is Pete (just in case you couldn't guess!)

And on the right is our clever Burmese, Dulcie, who can open her cat-flap, even when bolted on the inside!

[Picture of Dulcie the cat - 8KB]

PETE (Peter Powell)

BETH (Elsebeth Just Powell (née Johannsen))

[Picture of Pete, Sep 2001 - 9KB] Education - Bristol University (Physics) 1959-1962.

Employment - Water Research Association, (Medmenham) HVRA (Bracknell), Ring-Belt Ltd (St. Albans), Water Research Centre (Medmenham, Bucks). Took the chance to retire in the early 1990's, taking on a few light jobs since then, but now fully retired.
Family - Son from a previous marriage: James Powell, born 1972. Granddaughters, Kitty May, born October 2003 and Lois born May 2006.

From the archives - click on a link for some pictures:

Dr. Bells Junior School, Fishponds, Bristol - 1948-1952 [174KB]

Cotham Grammar School, Bristol - 1952-1959 [243KB]

Bristol University, 1959-1962 [112KB]

[Picture of Beth, Sep 2001 - 10KB] Danish by birth (Århus).

Came to England in the late 1950's. Spent many years caring for her handicapped daughter. Cross-stitch embroidery and design have been her main hobbies. She also plays the piano and is desperate to find the music for a piece called 'Bosun's Story' that she remembers from her childhood. It is apparently in a collection called "FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN 15 EASY PIECES PIANO SOLO - Arranger: ROWLEY, A" - that is apparently out of print. STOP PRESS - through a fellow-barbershopper, she now has a copy! Thank you, Frank.
She has been gainfully employed as a Post Office Counters assistant, plus making use of her knowledge of Danish language testing for a well known airline and translating for a firm making computer cleaning products - but is now essentially retired.
She has two daughters from a previous marriage: Marianna James (née Plummer), born 1966; Annalisa Plummer, born 1971 (see Trisomy 22 page).
Grandchildren: Scott James, born 1991; Bonnie James, born 1994.

Personal Interests (Pete)

Barbershop Harmony (Founder member of Reading Barbershop Harmony Club, the British Association of Barbershop Singers & Windsor A Cappella)
Genealogy (Family History)

At my 70th birthday party, Jan 2011

Me, Lois, Marianna, Dave, Bonnie, Kitty, Caroline, James
(Beth is behind the camera, Scott is AWOL somewhere!)

Click here for pictures from Hans & Pippa's wedding, 29 Dec 2004

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Last modified 20 January 2011