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Roger was brought up and educated in Quarry Bank. On leaving school his first employment
was with joinery manufacturers Hope Emery (no relation), as a trainee joiner. He soon moved
to Brierley Hill Council, which became Dudley MBC, and completed an apprenticeship and gained
qualifications as a carpenter and joiner. He continued with the Council as a carpenter and joiner
until leaving in 1971 to join West Bromwich Council (later Sandwell MBC). He started as a trainee
general foreman and progressed to General Foreman, Technical Officer, Senior Technical Officer
and finally Contracts Manager. During this period he continued studies at Bilston College and
Wolverhampton Polytechnic where he obtained advanced qualifications in Building, and
qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Building, before leaving in 1984 to join
Glazzards.

525 Bernard James BEALES (1932- ) (Inducted 17.10.1988; President 1995-96; made a Paul Harris
Fellow 2003; left June 2014.) Printing, offset litho. Owner of Prontaprint
Dudley, at the corner of King Street and Union Street from about 1980 until
1991 when he took over Dudley Print Ltd at Cinder Bank, Netherton. To
expand and inject finance into the business he set up Green Inc. Ltd (a play
on words!) in 1993, which traded as Dudley Print. His many interests and
past charitable activities included being a director of Dudley Social
Business Partnership (2000-02) and Dudley Crossroads (2008-13), both of
which helped people with disabilities, and Home-Start Dudley (2009-10)
helping parents with young children. He was also a committee member of
Dudley Festival of Music, Drama & Dance. Bernard is a native of Colchester and lived and worked
in that area until at least the 1970s. During his period in the club his home was in Hampton-in-
Arden, then Withymoor (Brierley Hill), Romsley, Sedgley and finally Kingswinford.

526 John David MADELEY (1944- ) (Inducted 31.10.1988; President 1999-2000; still a member at
2022.) Computers. Proprietor of Madeley Computer Systems Ltd from
1989, with an office in Castle Street, Dudley but working from home in
Sedgley from 2013. Originally a computer programmer he now supplies,
installs and maintains personal computers, printers and computer
networks and maintains his own bespoke software programs.
Born and raised in Dudley he attended what became the Sir Gilbert
Claughton School. He left at the age of 16 having decided against
continuing into the 6th form, and started work as an apprentice with M &
W Grazebrook, pressure vessel manufacturers of Peartree Lane, Dudley.
His first year was as office junior and draughtsman followed by 2 years gaining experience in the
machine shop and the fabrication, welding and inspection departments. His last 2½ years were
in the drawing office designing pressure vessels and boilers. During his time at Grazebrooks he
attended Dudley Technical College and obtained an ONC and HNC in Mechanical Engineering.
As soon as his apprenticeship was finished, he left to join Morris-Wardale, a contract drawing
office in Vane Street, Wolverhampton. He stayed there for 2 years followed by a year at Victoria
Engineering, before moving to John Thompson at Ettingshall, Wolverhampton, starting as
Engineering Methods Engineer in the Pressure Vessel Division but finishing up in the Work Study
Department of the Pipework Division. During this time he continued studying part-time at
Wolverhampton Polytechnic and became a member of the Institute of Welding and a member
of the Institute of Management Services.
At the age of 30 he decided to become a self employed Industrial Engineer, working for the
first few years through an agency and then on his own. One contract at Beldray in Bilston and
an encounter with management consultant John Yates stimulated his interest in computers and
programming. The recession of the early 1980s prompted him to take 6 months off to study
computing with the assistance of Dudley Technical College. He then teamed up with Yates to
become part of John Yates & Associates, based in central Birmingham, writing business software