Welcome

Welcome to the Friends of Garrard website.

Hopefully this site will give ex-employees of Garrard the opportunity to embarrass their friends with some shocking photo's from the past. It will also enable us to not only keep in touch with everybody but possibly find some of our long lost colleagues.

Thanks for staying in touch.

NEWS

October 2023

Tom Luard has died

June 2023

We held another reunion and remembered the colleagues that we have lost including those noted below and also Roger Malins who died in November last year.

September 2021

Mark Hudson has died

July 2020

Carole Rayner and Geoff have Hagger have passed away

June 2020

Andrew Teden has died.

March 2020

Looks like I haven't updated this for a while. Since June 2018, here are the members that we have lost - Stan Peacock, Maggie Lambert, John Davies and Robin Huggins. Condolences have been passed to all of their families.

June 2018

The 20th anniversary reunion has been booked for July 5th. If you have not been sent the details, please contact me via this website.

February 2018

A rough start to the year as we receive news that Pat Casey and Tony Walker have both died.

A link can be found on the site to the cover of Tony's Order of Service.

January 2018

Happy New Year to all of our friends, family and loved ones.

The date for the next reunion has been set as July 5th.

September 2017

Pencil July 2018 into your diary as we will be having a reunion

August 2017

Tony Mann has died at the age of 99

March 2017

We have just found out that Iris Newman died in November last year

January 2017

Alex Styles has passed away

January 2017

Henry Phillips has died

November 2016

Bill Gilbert has passed away

July 2016

Date for reunion announced!

Thursday September 29th at the Glassblower Glasshouse Street.

If you have not had an email please contact me via this website.

July 2016

Suzanna Dash has made contact. She is fit and well and living in Cornwall.

March 2016

Fred Rogers has passed away.

November 2015

Another new member!

Mrs Bennet has contacted me to say that she was Debbie Gordon, who worked in the watch and clock repairs in 1984. Welcome Debbie!

Condolences to Angus Stewart whose wife, Pat has died.

Julien Hicks has made contact and has been added to the database.

Hopefully we can all get together again in 2016!

May 2015

The website has managed to find another couple of our lost friends.

Teresa Nolan (nee Croal) who worked in the accounts department in the late 70's and Joy Whitehouse (nee Shambrook) who worked on the mezzanine from '81 to '84.

Welcome back!

February 2015

On Thursday February 5th I attended one of the services for Baz Varrone. It was a beautiful service held in St. Peter's, the Italian church in Clerkenwell. I have put a small memory of Baz on the website.

January 2015

A miserable start to the year as we lose Ron Gidding's daughter Carole and our good friend Baz Varrone.

November 2014

Please check out the details in the "Members Section" as I have now updated all of the friends that we have found recently and also uploaded the Order of Service from Brian Dunn's funeral.

October 2014

I have only just heard that our dear friend Ernie Prior passed away last year. Very sad.

October 2014

Rosie Summers, the wife of Bill, passed away on Monday September 29th.

September 2014

A reunion is planned for Thursday October 16th on the first floor at the Glassblower in Glasshouse Street. If you have not been sent an email by me inviting you to attend, please contact me via this site.

Contact me here

David

July 2014

As many of you know, John Davies, (Ex Garrard director) does not live in the UK anymore and is therefore unable to come to any reunions. Bob Fuller and his wife Jutta took it upon themselves to visit John and his wife Pamela when they visited Europe recently. John is in good health and you can see a couple of photo's in the relevant section on this site.

June 2014

The planned reunion for July 10th has been postponed until later in the year. Watch this space!

March 2014

We have lost another lovely lady as Kay Flood dies.

February 2014

Sadly Pat Bonner has passed away.

January 2014

Pat Bonner has shown no deterioration; please keep praying.

Petrina Davies, now back home in Sydney, has announced her wedding this month.

December 2013

Helen Grandsoult has passed away.

November 2013

Met Niell Adams at the Cricket Dinner

November 2013

Katie Baxter has made contact and will be attending the next reunion (tba).

Please pray for Pat Bonner - she is very unwell.

October 2013

Following a complaint from a very much alive Andrew Teden and his beautiful wife Mhari-Louise, I have changed the way the 'Active Members' are displayed and now include everybody I have contact with.

I also heard from Carlos who send his regards to everyone.