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There is going to be a historical motherhood event -'Bumps, Babbies & Bairns', at Wallsend library at 7 pm on Tuesday 26 March if anyone would like to attend. 
Tickets are £8 and have to be advance booked and there will be refreshments included.

There is going to be a talk on suffragette Emily Wilding Davison on Friday 8 March, 2 pm at Wallsend library.

This is a free event but booking is required if you wish to attend.

I wonder if anyone can make sense of this memorial and be able to help locate the burial of 'soldier' William Gilbert Renner who is recorded as having  died on 25 September 1928.

I obtained this inscription below from a book of memorial inscriptions (held at Newcastle City library local studies) for St Paul's Church, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear.  I have added these people as memorials on Find a Grave for the benefit of others; they are not related to me.  The volume records that the majority of memorials were cleared.  As I live in the area, I know that this is no longer in the Churchyard so it must have been one of the many cleared ones.

I have since been informed by someone willing to help that there is no Woodburn Cemetery and that the staff at 'Woodlawn Cemetery' have no record of said person in a soldier's plot.

Can anyone help locate him?  This is the memorial inscription which is recorded as having once existed at St Paul, Whitley Bay:

'In loving memory of William beloved husband of Fanny Elizabeth Renner who died Feb 9th 1927 aged 70
William Gilbert their eldest son who died Sept 25th 1928 aged 40
Interred in the soldiers plot Woodburn Cemetery, Saskatson Canada
Evelyn Mary their 2nd daughter
Harold Ralph their 4th son who both died in infancy'

Any help with this will be very much appreciated.  Thank you.

There is to be a talk event about shipwrecks at St Marys Island, Whitley Bay.  This free event will be held on 7 November 2023 at North Shields library at 3.15 pm.
Booking is required if you wish to attend.

Well, it looks like I get to start the thread again this week ..

Managed to get to Church yesterday; it was my first Sunday off in several weeks.  Still no word yet of a new Pastor.
I went to my hairdressers this morning to see if there was a sign up or anything about when it might reopen.  Online it is still saying 'temporarily closed'.  Workmen there gave me the shock news that it isn't going to reopen!  They are turning the premises into a flat!😱
I am very sorry that my hairdresser seems to have gone out of business.   I know things never picked up again after covid.  She was a really nice person, and always had a lovely manner about her.  I am not looking forward to looking around for another hairdresser.   I won't get time this week so I'll have to put up with yet another week of covid hair until my new rota comes out soon.
Then I went to Shields.  There is a long notice pinned up in Wilkos from their CEO.  I stopped to read it in parts and it sounded a bit like a goodbye letter but it didn't seem totally clear on it.  I went to ask a member of staff who said the store will continue trading for now but it is all up in the air with regards to closure - they are uncertain about what is happening.
It is a cold, grey day and the rain has been chucking it down all day.  It is like the world is crying about there being too many endings.  Today definitely has a Monday feel about it.
I'm on nightshift tonight.