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 (link). Cross-stitch embroidery and design have been her main hobbies. She also plays the piano and (is) was 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, apart from one or two sessions a week at a local Cancer Research shop as a volunteer.
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 (BABS) & 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!)

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Last modified 29 August 2012