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Bernard William Jewry was born 27 September 1942 in Muswell Hill, North London and died on 23rd October 2014. He moved to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, at a young age where his mother ran a boarding house frequented by musicians and entertainers appearing locally. Jewry attended the Southwell Minster Collegiate Grammar School (now Southwell Minster School) as a boarder. He made his stage debut in pantomime at the age of four. In the early 1960s, Shane Fenton and the Fentones were an unknown teenage band who recorded a demo tape and mailed it in to a BBC programme with the hope of being picked to appear on television. While awaiting a reply from the BBC, the band's 17-year-old singer Shane Fenton (whose real name was Johnny Theakston) died as a result of the rheumatic fever he had suffered in childhood. The rest of the band decided to break up, but then unexpectedly received a letter from the BBC inviting them to come to London to audition in person. Theakston's mother asked the band to stay together, and to keep its name, in honour of her son's memory. Jewry, who was a roadie with the group at the time, was asked to join the band and to use Shane Fenton as a pseudonym. Source Wikipedia. More Information

The facility, which replaces a 60-year-old building, includes a bar and function area, and changing rooms for men, women, wheelchair-users and officials. The club received £45,000 towards the project from the RFU after being chosen as a 'Lead Up And Legacy Centre' ahead of the 2015 rugby world cup, to be hosted in England and Wales. Club vice-chairman Mr Jem Berridge, clubhouse redevelopment project co-ordinator, said: “The old clubhouse was built in the 1960s when rugby was principally a male sport. “Now, we have international rugby played by ladies to a very high standard, substantial wheelchair rugby and boys and girls playing so now it has moved from being a totally male sport to a much wider community.
The clubhouse has been named after former club secretary Mr Steve Pulford, who helped build the former clubhouse. Mr Pulford was a former deputy head of The Minster School and a member of the Old Southwellians Society, which raised money for the clubhouse in his memory. His widow, Mrs Margaret Pulford, was at the official opening. More Information
Link to Steve Pulford RIP