Newsletter November 2014

Next meeting.  A reminder that, on Friday 21 November 2014, Colin Edwards is coming go talk to us about ‘Ilmington Remembers the 1950s:a village recording project.’ As usual the meeting will be held in Kineton Village Hall starting at 7.30pm.

David Gill, a long-term member of the K&DLHG and a former chairman, went into hospital yesterday (Tuesday) for an operation on his knee. I am sure all members wish him and Joy a speedy recovery and return to active life in Kineton.

A Thoughtful Departure. Having experienced two differing styles of funeral last week, I came across the following notice for an older relative of a family resident in Kineton during the 1920s and 1930s:

Deaths. Huttenbach – On the 1st Dec, at 35 Norfolk Square, Ludwig Huttenbach, late of Penang and Singapore, in his 58th year, after a short illness from pneumonia. Cremation took place at Golder’s Green. Friends please accept this, the only intimation. He having expressed this wish:- “As friends might be inconvenienced by attending my funeral, while their doing so would not do me any good, I wish that notice of my death be given only after the cremation has taken place.”                                            The Times, Thurs 4 Dec 1913

 

With best wishes

Peter Ashley-Smith, K&DLHG secretary

5 November 2014