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437 Joseph Thomas Henry (‘Harry’) JONES (1927-1998) (Inducted 22.6.1970; left during 1973/74.)
Banking. Manager of Barclays Bank, High Street, Dudley from about 1967 to 1974 when he was
transferred to Coventry. He grew up and was married in Cannock. During his short period in
Dudley he lived at Oldswinford and Pedmore. In his retirement he was a director of the Snowball
Trust, a charity helping seriously ill and disabled children in Coventry and Warwickshire, and of
the local Chamber of Commerce training company.

438 Rev. Raymond Frederick EFEMEY (1928-2015) (Inducted 5.10.1970; left 1975.) Parish Priest.
Vicar of St Thomas, ‘Top Church’, Dudley from 1966 to 1975, and Curate-in-
Charge of St James the Great, Eve Hill, Dudley 1966-69, before moving to
Manchester. He was born in Hampshire but moved to Dover as a boy when
his father became Pastor of the Dover Pentecostal Church. He was an
outstanding pupil at Dover County School for Boys and was awarded an
Exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford, but took two years out to work for the
Friend's Ambulance Unit, a voluntary ambulance service founded by the
Quakers. He went up to Balliol in 1948, graduated with a BA in French, then
studied at Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxford. He was ordained Deacon
in 1953, followed by Assistant Curate first at Croydon, and then at Holy Trinity and St Mary’s
Yeovil 1957-60. From 1960 to 1966 he served as Vicar of Upper Arley and Industrial Chaplain of
Kidderminster, Worcestershire before coming to Dudley to succeed Canon T W Keith-Murray
(club member #322) as Vicar. On leaving Dudley he became Assistant Curate of All Saints',
Stretford 1976-82; then Priest-in-Charge of St Luke’s, Weaste, Salford from 1982 and Vicar from
1987 until his retirement to Chorlton-cum-Hardy in 1993. Raymond wrote ‘Devils are for
Yesterday’, published in 1966, described as ‘a delightful and disgusting book ... a wide ranging
foray across the landscape of the modern world ... the penetrating insights of a highly original
intellect’, and an updated edition of ‘The Story of the Parish Church of St Thomas, Dudley’. He
was a Brother of the Society of Saint Francis, a Franciscan religious order within the Anglican
Communion, and appears to have been married three times.

439 Charles FORD (1911-1986) (Inducted 19.10.1970; left 26.02.1979.) Baking, Retail. He was
Manager of the Dudley Co-operative Society Bakery in Nith Place until retiring in 1976 after
almost 20 years at the bakery. Before coming to Dudley he was a baker and pastry cook in
Cannock, where he was born and raised, the son of a coal miner.

440 Herbert (‘Bert’) HYDE (1915-1990) (Inducted 19.10.1970; left c.1975.) Group Building Supervisor
for the Dudley and Stourbridge Hospital Group, based at Dudley Guest Hospital. He started in
the mid-1960s having previously worked for British Road Services looking after its local transport
depots. As Group Building Supervisor he was responsible for the fabric of all the hospitals and
nursing homes in the Dudley Group, including the Guest, Burton Road, Wordsley and Corbett
hospitals, Mary Stevens Maternity Home, Hayley Green Isolation Hospital, and the Prestwood,
Edge View (Kinver) and Limes (Himley) sanatoriums. On reorganisation in 1978 he missed the
top post and became Deputy Group Building Officer, based at Falcon House, Dudley. He lived in
the Gornal/ Sedgley area all his life. His very first job was as a Carpenter and Coffin Maker in his
father’s undertaker’s business. He had a house built for himself at Moden Hill, Sedgley where
he lived from the late 1960s until his death. He was also landlord of a number of residential
properties along Burton Road, Dudley. He was an avid fan of modern jazz and had a large
collection of old horn gramophones (kept in his specially converted loft!).

441 David Thomas HESLOP OBE (1932- ) (Inducted 19.10.1970; resigned 23.9.1971 on being
transferred to Solihull.) Gas Appliances Retailing. He was Regional Sales Manager for West
Midlands Gas Board based at the local office in Kensington House, Bath Street, Dudley, although
his home was in Shirley, Solihull. However he was transferred back to the regional head office