Remembering … Edith Neal and Gerald Wells

REMEMBERING... Edith Neal

Popular Bourne resident and a nursing career while serving shop proprietor, Edith Neal, with the WRAF. After a chance passed away recently meeting with Denis Neal in the at the age of ninety. For queue for Bourne cinema, they many Bourne people, Edith Neal went on to marry in 1950. Moving was a very familiar face, serving back to Bourne, they established customers in Neal’s Hairdressers Neal’s Hairdressers and brought and Tobacconists onwards from up Kelvin, Keith and Pauline.

the 1960s and, when not serving

customers, she would often be It was her love of keyboard / seen chatting to passers -by organ music that led her in the as she swept and cleaned the 1980s to found Bourne Organ shop frontage on South Street. Club, along with a small group

Edith was extremely proud Exchange became the venue of her Yorkshire roots, being for regular organ concerts, one of five daughters and with renowned organists four sons to a North Yorkshire from around the UK and hill farmer and his wife. Europe coming to perform.

After finishing school, she pursued

Grantham, he started his career

He changed careers and of enthusiasts. Bourne Corn Bourne Organ Club became big bands supplying the music.

one of the largest clubs in the UK, donating monies raised to local charities. Edith was a kind, caring person who loved people and her local community. She was adored by her six grandchildren

REMEMBERING... Gerald Wells

Bourne resident, Gerald by “Ted Bear”, who would sit A much-loved gentleman, Wells died peacefully at at the top of the blackboard, Gerald will be missed by home on April 12th, 2020, and whose motto was “I all who knew him. aged eighty-three. Born in want work not excuses”!

in engineering as an apprentice Gerald’s love of dancing will also at Aveling and Barford’s and be remembered for he taught quickly moved up the career many Bourne residents to dance; ladder to the design office. he held monthly dances with

and one great granddaughter. became a well-respected He also taught archery and and loved teacher of CDT for chess. Gerald never seemed to twenty-six years at The Aveland grow old and was affectionately

School, Billingborough, from known as ‘Peter Pan’ by the when it opened in 1963. Many family. He would often be asked of his pupils still live in the Bourne by ex-pupils, “Morning Sir, how area and have fond memories come you never look a day older of his teaching, ably assisted from when you taught me?”

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