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Gummery Cup

I am seeking a photo of the Gummery Cup to include on my webpage about Albert (Bert) Harry Gummery (1871 - 1947) of Martley at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gomery/ahgumm.html and wondered if someone in the Martley area knows the current holder of the cup and would be willing to photograph it for me, please?

This cup was first presented to the Martley Air Rifle Club in 1921 by S.R. Hare who lived at Kingswood. It was to become the property of the club member who won it three times - which happened to be Bert Gummery. After Bert's death in 1947, Christopher Rimmell, who boarded with Bert for many years, gave the cup back to the club and it became known as the Gummery Cup. The competition for the Gummery Cup is a knockout, shot over one evening between members of the Martley Air Rifle Club and awarded to the winner at the end of the shoot. The Gummery Cup was first competed for in 1948 and is still competed for annually to this day, so someone out there is the current holder.

Many thanks for any help.

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Best regards,
Linda Hansen
Zurich, Switzerland

Silver Surfers Award

Silver Surfer Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 15th October 2007

A few weeks ago I heard that I had been nominated by Helen Anderson of South Witham Broadband, for Silver Surfer Entrepreneur of the Year by Digital Unite. This competition is open to us elderly citizens ie over 50!

Angela & I set off to London on the train which was only 13 min late!

We arrived at the Commons to be confronted by security fencing and lots and lots of very helpful policemen. You go through an ‘air port’ security check before being allowed to wander around inside.

I had not been inside before and it was really most impressive both for scale and decorations. Lots of monitors were around so everybody could keep up with the day’s business in both Houses.

We were required to be in the Jubilee room, Palace of Westminster at 2.00pm. We found it then went down to the tea room in the basement.

There were a lot of people crowded in the Jubilee room by the time we went up at 1.45pm – but fortunately we were expected and even had chairs reserved for us (must be getting old!),

There then followed a number of speeches by people who were very proud of themselves for encouraging older people to use the internet. Various figures were bandied about; the most startling was that 14 million older people are NOT accessing the internet at the moment.

As a relief for us elderly people, was an introduction to Internet Ranger of the Year in the person of 13 year old Joseph Devries who runs Silver Surfer classes in Port Talbot.

There was a Silver Surfers’ Day Event Holder prize which went to Broadgreen High School in Liverpool.They have run training courses in their school for over 4 years.

Dora Pegg a delightful 92 year old, who picked up the surfing knowledge quite quickly, aided with her touch typing skills (to the shame of most present), and now teaches other residents of her sheltered accommodation.

I received my laptop prize from Stephen Timms MP, who co-incidentally helped set up the Community Broadband Network where I learnt a tremendous amount about community networks as well as ‘meeting’ experts in their field.

Joan Barker 75, Silver Surfer of the Year, was nominated by Genesis housing who do a lot of sheltered housing in East London. She was a self confessed keyboard phobe but now not only uses the internet herself but has become Genesis Housing Customer Association Vice Chair, and helped launch computer training projects.

I had a go badgering various BT managers there, about the quality of ADSL out in the countryside and asked what they were promising for the future. Answer: by 2012 they hope to have implemented a technology to raise speeds to 24 Mbits over copper.

At 4.00 pm it was all and we emerged to a rather overcast sky. (Photo taken on the way in)

Overall a great experience, and we emerged with a laptop, but very hungry as we had had no food since the train trip up.