WCoFF Company News Desk
It is with much sadness that the Company has been informed of the passing of Liveryman Paul Fuller aged 60 years after a short illness.Paul passed way in hospital early this morning with his family present having been recently diagnosed with a terminal illness and taken into hospital last week.Paul became a Liveryman in 2018 and a member of Court earlier this year. Born in 1960, Paul wa ...
Living with Covid19 (C19)…….another update (Convalescent Plasma Donation) It is now a cold damp Friday in December 2020. More C19 restrictions have been announced and enforced in my County of Hertfordshire. Vaccinations have begun but more people are contracting C19 and its new variant. Hospitals are becoming overwhelmed. I had been in contact with the Blood Transfusion team and h ...
Back in March and early April of this year, (2020), I wrote about my experience of contracting and surviving Covid-19. Following the three terrible weeks of the virus I then found it difficult to shake off the after effects. Four further weeks of fatigue, muscle ache and mild breathlessness gradually merged with what appears to be a full recovery. Sometime in May I was fit enough to ...
Members of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority have today approved the appointment of an assistant chief fire officer. Jon Anderson was confirmed by members at a meeting on Thursday (25) after being recommended for the role following a two-day selection process. Chairman of the authority, Councillor Kevin Reynolds, said: “We are delighted to confirm Jon in the role and offer ...
Thanks to documents preserved by Past Master Beech, the distinguished author on heraldry, Richard Goddard, Past Master Watermen and Lightermen, has written a short history on our Armorial Bearings and the Grant of Arms to the Firefighters. Click on the link to read the document and, if you wish to read a high-resolution copy of our Grant of Arms, it is available on the Company Flickr page. ...
I had hoped to write this following the Massey Shaw Dinner scheduled for March 20th at Cutlers Hall, it was to have been a splendid evening and there was also a waiting list, I had looked forward to meeting you all. Events have however taken another turn and as we all know Covid-19 has curtailed all events and put us all into lockdown. London is one of the worst affected with the Prince of Wales a ...
