Last week’s calling of Elder Patrick Kearon as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles elicited international attention, including queries about what it’s like to be called to the modern apostleship within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since 1835, some 106 individuals have entered the apostleship. New apostles do not apply or campaign for positions, but are rather called by the most senior apostle — the church’s prophet-president — who seeks God’s will about who to select to fill vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Following on from last week’s column, here are a few more Marlow Fire Brigade memories, carrying on through the last Century. The funeral of Fire Chief Sidney Chalk in 1938 brought a parade by several local Brigades, and they are seen, in the first picture, marching up Trinity Road en-route for the cemetery. Sidney’s son Cyril, well remembered by many in Marlow, took over the family High Street hardware store at this date, after an early career in the cinema industry. Then follow two pictures in the period of World War Two outside the Cambridge Road Fire Station. Some well known names in both line-ups, including, seated left in the first picture, Fred Nottingham, from W.T.Porter in Station Approach.