I joined Upbeat after suffering a heart attack in 1996, which means that I’ve been a member for almost all of Upbeat’s existence. At that time I was working in Leicester as a primary school head teacher, which I continued to do until retiring in 2007.
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I was born in Bury St Edmunds and have lived here ever since. I have two lovely children and two beautiful granddaughters.
Leaving school at 16, I started work for a local architect’s office, before re-training to become a Building Surveyor and then a Chartered Building Engineer.
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My secretarial and administrative background has given me the tools to enjoy the secretary's role at Upbeat since 2010. The search for grants has been a major part of my tasks, something which is getting much more difficult each year.
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I was born on the last day of the year in Epsom, Surrey, and grew up in the 1950s in Cheam. I did not find school very easy, especially learning to read. This was not helped by one teacher who used to smack my hand whenever I could not read a word!.
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I am a new, or at least, a returning committee member, I was brought up on a small dairy farm in Lincolnshire by my mother and step-father alongside my twin brother and my half brother.
Being on a dairy farm with eventually 70 or 80 milking Friesian cattle I/we were not unused to hard work,
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I was born in 1948 into a farming family in County Cavan, in the Irish Republic, as the second of five children. From the age of ten I attended the Royal Cavan Boarding School where I enjoyed taking part in various sports as well as my studies.
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I was born 100 yards from the sea in Blackpool in 1942. My parents ran a boarding house and at the time it was full of American airmen, due to the war. After the war, they ran a fish and chip shop for a few years and later back to running a boarding house, as my Dad had suffered....
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I was born on February 11th 1941 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
I have two sisters and had a brother who sadly died from Covid.
I joined the RAF at the age of 19 and served my time at RAF Honington, Libya, Malta, Cyprus, and finally Watton in Norfolk.
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I was born in Bury St Edmunds in 1948 and have lived here all of my life.
I have one son and one grandson who live nearby.
I left school at 15 and became an apprentice hairdresser progressing through to running...
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Hello everyone, I’m Felicity Stemp. I have joined Upbeat to help raise funds for the group.
My late husband, John Stemp, enjoyed many happy years at Upbeat with his friend Rick Lee, doing the exercise classes. We also enjoyed several social occasions together with other Upbeat members.
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I was born in Liverpool but moved to Suffolk when I was 3. I have two children and a 2½ year old granddaughter called Rosie.
I began work at Nilfisk aged 17 until I was 32, with a short stint at Shering Plough in Mildenhall during that period.