Mary Williams
Sad news from Alma:
Just to let you know that Mary Williams died this morning at the Thames Hospice. As you may know Mary was a member of EBR for many years, I think since the year 2000. During that time she was a keen walker and also leader of walks, and particularly she started the annual Dawn Walk which has become a regular feature in the EBR programme.
Her family are going to arrange a Celebration of Life event for Mary sometime in the near future and I will alert you to the date and time and place when I know it as I am sure many members of our group would like to attend.
Dotty Lindsay adds:
I thought you might like to know that Mary was a member of the Ramblers for over 45 years. I talked to her about this recently and I have now checked with my old diaries which actually revealed that I first met her in 1976! For the first few years, of course, we were both working so only walked on Sundays.
Update from Rosemary:
Mary’s family have arranged for a celebration of Mary’s life at The Kings Arms, High St, Cookham SL6 9SJ on Monday, 20 April at 3pm. It would be good if Mary’s family have an idea on numbers and so please let me know by email to
Many thanks.
Rosemary Davies
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Meg's Funeral
Meg Knight died in July. Her funeral is on Friday 26th September at 11.30 am at Cadmore End Church, Cadmore End, HP14 3PJ.
It will be followed by a reception at Hazlemere Golf Club, Fairways suite, Penn Road, High Wycombe, HP15 7LR.
All EBR members are welcome. Please wear traditional dress with a splash of colour.
Flowers from immediate family only. Donation in lieu of flowers for Cancer Research / Dementia UK c/o Arnold Funeral Service 01628 898866.
Please let Pera Marrs (
Meg's Obituary can be found here.
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Meg Knight Obituary
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Meg Knight
Photo by Margaret Carlyle The record of when Meg and Hamish joined EBR has gone, but I think it was before 2007. This was the year Gordon and I took over leading the coach walks from Mac Gollifer (another recently deceased member). Meg loved the coach walks, never missing one if possible. She strode out at the front, but slowed to ”group pace” with a grin when reminded. She began to help out, with Pat Snell, collecting the fares and taking bookings for the following month. The cash always tallied with the list of walkers, despite the odd £1 coin rolling down the aisle. Meg was a keen runner and walker and , with Hamish, knew every path or track in and around their cottage in Cadmore End. On the day Meg was due to lead a “mystery” walk she would open her front door and decide where to go that day. The route frequently changed as we went along. “The bluebells are good up there. We will take that path. The poppies are in full flower, let’s go along here. ”Amazingly, the walk was nearly always about 7 miles, though there were occasions when we had to take the final hill at a run to get to the pub in time for food. She loved the freedom of the 10 mile walks when they were introduced. She even managed to beat Keith’s planned record feet of ascent, entirely by accident on an unplanned walk. Meg was one of my helpful walk leaders, along with David Bailey, who always offered two or more walks for every programme and would fill in gaps when she could. Invaluable to a walk programme coordinator. EBR had a golf society, started by Led Cooper. When he retired from the job, Meg took over until 2019. She organised two or three competitions a year. She negotiated good deals at all the local courses and arranged different competitions for all standards to join in and have fun. Meg loved life and was always out and about, walking, running, bicycling or playing golf. It was hard when she had a stroke. She partially recovered and was allowed home after several months in hospital. Unfortunately, she had a fall and hit her head, leading to her being cared for in a nursing home until her recent death. Several of us visited her during her period of ill health, when she would chat happily about past days with EBR. Walking was never far from her mind. |
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SE Walker article on EBR Publications success
The September edition of South East Walker contains a front page article about the success of EBR's publications sales leading to a fund enabling the improveemnt of paths in various places round the UK. HERE's a link to the article.
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Marlow FM radio interview
On 5 August our Membership Secretary, Malcolm Stone, was interviewed on Marlow FM about the history of Ramblers, the work carried out on footpath maintenance and the benefits of membership. If you’d like to hear the interview, this is available in two parts Part 1 Part 2.
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