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Bright Reunion For Anniversary

A very enjoyable meeting of past and present staff members of Ball and Crawshaw was the highlight of the firm's 60th year in business. An anniversary dinner and social was held at the Midway Surf Club Pavilion and a great time was had by all.

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With senior partner, Mr Pat Crawshaw (third from left at back) are past members of the staff who joined the firm in the 1930s. From left, in front, Miss Phyl Burden, Miss Patsy Martin, Miss Mary Curtis and Mrs Margaret Lawton. At back, Miss Flora Johnstone and Messrs Jim Watt, Pat Crawshaw, Alan Webster, Graeme Thompson, RevelI Kinder and Ian Walton.

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More recent staff members to pass through the portals are, with Mr Pat Crawshaw (centre front, and thinking of “the good old days”), from left, in front, Mesdames Marie Lange, Nessie McDowell, Nola Hankey and Anna Symes. At back, Nancy Adcroft, Joan Duncan, Shirley Johnstone, Nancy Miller, Bob Scott, Lorna Hair, Brian Crawshaw (a present partner), Alan Webster, Miss Mary Curtis, and Mesdames Pam Cranswick and Cynthia Greatbatch.

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Present members of the staff and their guests included, from left, in front, Jim Andrew, Sue Kimber, Anne van Helden, Graeme Carter, Doris Breingan and Vicky Holms-Chote. At back, Bruce Crichton, Carol Robertson, Christine and Roger Allen, Richard Breingan and Richard Crawshaw.

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Giff and Berys Goldsmith. Mrs Goldsmith is the only daughter of the late Mr Freddie Ball, an original member of the firm.

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Alan and Nan Webster. Mr Webster, who was a former partner with the firm, started work with them in 1933, leaving to form his own company in 1965.

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Former employee Mrs Pam Cranswick chatting to Hugh Crawshaw.

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Mrs Florence Wakeling, Mrs Lillian Booth and her husband Mr John Booth. Both Mrs Wakeling and Mrs Booth worked for the firm in the early 1920s.