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547 Joseph Barry CLARKE (1936-2013) (Inducted 1.7.1996; President 2001-02; died 1.12.2013 whilst
still a member.) Electrical control gear. Director of C & C Instrumentation
Limited of Hobart Road, Tipton, and associated companies Control and
Combustion Ltd and C & C Keycliff Ltd, designers, manufacturers and
installers of electric distribution panels and control apparatus. The
business was founded in 1964 by Barry, his older brother Ernest and a
friend. The companies were voluntarily wound up between 2005 and
2007 but in the years leading up to his retirement in 2001 he assisted in
the handover of the business to his son Ian, who continued as Clarke
Controls & Distribution Limited. Barry grew up in Upper Gornal, son of
parents who kept the New Inn in Humphrey Street (the ‘Sunshine pub’), attended Robert Street
School and then Dudley College. He was an amateur radio enthusiast with his own call sign,
G4XMT. For over 30 years he lived in Gorge Road, Sedgley until moving to Priory Close, Dudley
in 1997.

548 Clayton THOMAS (1931-2021) (Inducted 10.2.1997; left 30.6.2003.) Steelwork construction.
Self-employed contracts manager. He helped supervise the erection of
much of the Merry Hill shopping centre at Brierley Hill as well as a number
of other large construction and civil engineering projects. He grew up,
married, and lived in the Bridgend area of South Wales until the mid-
1960s. As a young man he worked for a time underground in the local
coal mines. He then moved to Dudley to join Gibbons Refractories Limited
of Dibdale and was an engineer with that company for 30 years,
supervising the construction and repair of refractory furnaces. He was a
competent amateur painter and a member of the Dudley Society of
Artists. His home was in Paganel Drive, Dudley until 2013 when he and his wife Rae moved to
the Sheffield area to be near their daughter.

549 Roger SCOTT-DOW (1949- ) (Inducted 21.7.1997; President 2004-05;
made a Paul Harris Fellow 2008; still a member at 2022.) Men’s Clothing.
Proprietor of Roger Scott Menswear, Stone Street, Dudley, and also trading
over the internet as penguinsuithire.co.uk, until retiring and closing the
business in 2021. It was a leading clothing store in the Black Country,
specialising in the sale of quality menswear and formal hire wear for both
men and boys. He started the business in 1990, originally in High Street,
Sedgley, but moved to larger premises in Dudley in 1995. Before that he
lived and worked in Yorkshire from 1983 as General Manager for Brooke Taverner Limited,
‘Tailors of Distinction’, the major menswear suppliers, and prior to that was retail branch
manager for Hepworths in Dudley until 1980. Roger was born and raised in Dudley and, except
for his period in Yorkshire, lived in the borough until moving to Seisdon in 2015. He was a
founder member of Swindon Cricket Club in 1972 and later Captain and Chairman; a director of
Dudley Town Centre Forum from 1998 to 2009; and a Dudley councillor for the UK Independence
Party representing Gornal ward from May 2014 to May 2018. He was made a Paul Harris Fellow
in 2008, principally for his charity fund raising efforts which raised over £70,000 for the club to
distribute. He was also a board member of the Rotary Club of Dudley Housing Association from
2009, managing the running of Rotary House.