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This message was updated on 2/26/2008 12:23:49 PM by Jennypeg

Hunt / Moon / Shaw / Browne / Cheetam
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Heanor Observer
Jan 26th 939
Bamber + Shaw
At Ilkeston Registry office on Saturday January 21st 1939 Miss Dorothy Edna Shaw, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Enoch Shaw of “Challen House” 76 Fletcher St Heanor to Mr William Rowland Bamber, eldest son of Mr and Mrs William Rowland Bamber 3 Broadway Heanor.

17th Dec 1964
Death of Heanor Resident
Mr W. R. Bamber
The death took place on Friday morning at his home, Wilmot St Heanor of Mr William Rowland Bamber who was highly esteemed by a large number of residents in the area.
Mr Bamber was born in Heanor 77 years ago and was the last surviving member of a one-time well known business concern, namely Thomas Bamber and Sons, Architects and Surveyors, which had connections with the town over a very long period before retirement two years ago, he was the Chief Lace draughtsman at the factory of Messrs J. K. Fletchers and sons of Heanor.
In his 50 odd years service there he won the high esteem of management and employees, and in his retirement his advice on technical problems was often sought. He was a valuable official whose advice and genial personality will be much missed.
His hobby in his early day’s was landscape painting and he wrote many poems of Derbyshire in the dialect of the county some of which were read at the Heanor Literary Society, whose members praised his talent in that sphere. Miss Teresa Hooley, the Derbyshire poetess, highly commended his poems and suggested that they should be inserted in the magazine “The Derbyshire Countryside”. He was a lover of good music and his quiet and retiring disposition endeared him to many people. Mr Bamber was a well read man in the history of the district, which in his younger days he travelled and often walked 40 miles in one day into the heart of the country he loved Derbyshire.
Cremation took place on Monday at Markeaton Crematorium Derby conducted by the Rev. H. B. Roberts (vicar).
Mourners were:
Mrs S. L. Bamber widow; Mr Rowland Bamber son; Mr and Mrs F. Bryan and Mrs T. Holcroft, Mr G. E. White, Mr and Mrs Tom Bamber, Mr and Mrs George Bamber, Miss Lena Bamber, Lt Col and Mrs W. Stubbs, Mr and Mrs G. Smith (Belper), Mr and Mrs Maljon (Nottingham), Miss Crowther (Sheffield), and the Rev. P. Foley. Representatives of Messrs G. H. Fletcher and Sons Ltd Heanor included Mr Leslie Fletcher, Mr G Fletcher, Mr J. Fletcher Mr J. Stapleton, Mr W. Woodhouse and Mr E. Pettifer. The one floral tribute was from the widow who has asked that instead of floral tokens donations should be sent for Oxfam.

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