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419 Donald BAILEY (1921-2011) (Inducted 1.4.1968; left in 2001/02; died
22.12.2011.) Director of Dudley Technical College from January 1967 in
succession to Ernest Bunting (who joined the club in 1958). The institution
was renamed Dudley College of Technology in about 1975 so his
classification was changed to Technical Education. He retired in 1982 and
was succeeded by Gordon Hopkins (who joined the club in 1983, member
#503). Donald had a distinctive Yorkshire accent because he was born (and
married his wife Edith) at Todmorden in West Yorkshire, a few miles from
his parents’ dairy farm. He was educated at Hebden Bridge Grammar
School and Christ’s College, Cambridge. For four years he worked as a chemist at ICI Dyestuffs
Division before taking up teaching at Halifax Technical College. From there he moved to
Birmingham in about 1957 to take up a position as lecturer in organic chemistry at the Advanced
College of Technology, now Aston University. For the next 30 years he lived at Boldmere, Sutton
Coldfield before moving to Penn, Wolverhampton.

420 Simon John Winston HENN (1942- ) (Inducted 1.4.1968 aged only 25; left in 1975.) Jewellery
Retailing. He was assistant to his father Winston Henn (club member
#301) in the jewellery business Henn’s (Dudley) Limited of 14 New Street,
Dudley, with another shop in Bridgnorth during the 1960s. He became
sole proprietor after his father’s death in 1971 but five years later the
firm was in financial difficulties and was wound up. The following year
he opened a similar business as Simon Henn on Kinver High Street but
this appears to have lasted only 6 or 7 years. He moved home from
Kingswinford to Heathton near Claverley in 1969, then to Kinver about
1978, eventually moving to Marlborough, Wiltshire and finally retiring to
Salcombe, Devon in 2005.

421 Robert (‘Bob’) LICKLEY (1921-2007) (Inducted 1.4.1968; left 1970.) Refractory Materials. He
was Sales Director of Gibbons Dudley Ltd, firebrick manufacturers at
Dibdale Works, Lower Gornal but he left Gibbons and the club in 1970
when he formed Robert Lickley Limited, refractories manufacturers. This
firm was based first in Oakengates but soon back in Dudley. In 1977 it
became Robert Lickley Refractories Limited and continues today. Bob
Lickley was the prime mover in forming the Institute of Refractories
Engineers in 1961 (which had its inaugural meeting in the Courthouse pub,
Dudley), and became national President for 1968/69. His association with
refractories went back to his childhood days, learning from his father, a
foundry and general engineer of repute, who held senior management positions with numerous
iron foundries, including the historic Coalbrookdale Iron Foundry in Ironbridge. Bob presumably
started there but at age 17 joined the RAF as an engineer fitter and during the War maintained
aircraft of the 56 Fighter Squadron. On demobilisation he held several jobs before joining
Gibbons. He lived at Albrighton.

422 Frederick (‘Fred’) Edward JONES (1917-2005) (Inducted 27.5.1968;
President 1975-76; made a Paul Harris Fellow 1996; died 5.2.2005 whilst
still a member.) Monument Manufacturing. Proprietor jointly with his
brother Geoff of family firm R L Jones & Sons, Queens Cross, monumental
masons and stone fireplace manufacturers. He joined the firm straight
from school and remained involved until his death. The business was
founded around 1880 by his grandfather Richard Law Jones, a master
mason and himself son of a quarry owner in Upper Gornal. Richard
established the workshops and showroom at Queens Cross in 1905. Fred’s