Children of John Edgar and Marion Edmundson

Little Kathleen Edmundson, in "Elsie's Question", told us where baby goes when she's asleep, and very nicely did she tell us too. There was no "beating about the bush," she went straight at it, and concerned herself about nothing till the end of the recitation. Then she joined with everybody else in appreciating what she had done.

[ . . . ] little Kathleen Edmundson, whose eloquence for a child is remarkable to a degree, scored a great success in her pretty fairy-poem of "The Five Little Brothers." She told us an interesting tale of five little toes, and their experience in a boot, and enjoyed it quite as much as those who were intently listening—a fact which her bright and pleasant countenance betrayed. She had a great ovation.

QUAKER WEDDING AT THIRSK

A Quaker wedding is to take place in Thirsk to-day, a somewhat rare event in a district where at one time the Society of Friends were very strongly represented. The bride is Miss Kathleen Edmundson, eldest daughter of Mrs. Edmundson, of Lunshaw, Bolty, near Thirsk, and the late Mr. J. Edgar Edmundson. She is marrying Mr. Robin McMillin, of Gosforth, Newcastle.

When a younger sister of to-day's bride was married at the Meeting House in Kirkgate in 1933, it was the first wedding to have taken place there since that of her parents. Not more than half a dozen Quaker weddings have been celebrated in Thirsk this century.

BROWN—EDMUNDSON.

The marriage took place at the Friends' Meeting House, Thirsk, yesterday, of Miss Nora Gertrude Edmundson, daughter of Mrs. Edmundson, of Lunshaw, Boltby, near Thirsk, and the later Mr. J. Edgar Edmundson, of Hawick, and Mr. Gerald Grover Brown, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Brown, of Letchworth, Herts.

It is stated that this was the first marriage solemnised at the Friends' Meeting House, Thirsk, since that of the bride's parents.

The bride's dress was of ivory crepe-de-chine, Mr. Leonard L. Brown (brother of the bridegroom) was the best man. A reception was held at Scottsgarth, Sutton, near Thirsk, the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Hall, the bride's sister and brother-in-law, and later the bridal couple left by car en route for Connemara.

Mr Arnold Edmunds has been secretary of the Club for the last 12 years, and he is also voluntarily associated with many other Birmingham youth clubs. For two years he trained in gymnastics in Denmark and then became swimming and gymnastic instructor at Bootham, the Quaker school in Yorkshire.

Even now it is not unusual for him, when the Club is short of an act in its hospital entertainments, to fill in by walking the wards on his hands or giving some other display of gymnastic agility.

YOUTH HELPS AGE

FOR thirteen years members of this youth organisation have not only provided film shows in hospital wards, but have visited in their homes old people, incurable invalids, and sufferers from tuberculosis and infantile paralysis.

They take them for runs in the club ambulance, and lend them TV sets—we bought twenty with money obtained from selling waste paper.—A. W. Edmundson, Joint Secretary, Bournville Youths' Club and Bournville Works Youths' Committee, Birmingham.

Boys' Bus in Drift

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Thirty-two boys of the Bournville (Birmingham) Youth Club, on their way to Switzerland, spent three hours in a drift five feet deep outside Maidstone early yesterday.

Mr. A. W. Edmundson, leader of the club, told The Birmingham Post by telephone from the Channel steamer, Fabriola: "We had a good run down the M1 and just before Maidstone ran into this drift. There were eight ears also stuck there. We waited in the dark from 5 a.m. until 8 a.m., when the snow plough arrived. Luckily I had advised the boys to wear ski clothes.

"We took out our blankets to put under the back wheels of the cars to stop them skidding. Four of the blankets were chewed to pieces."

SOCIAL service is a tradition long associated with Cadbury's, and its Bournville Youths' Club (established in 1900) is to-day internationally known as one of the finest clubs in the country. Much of its success is due to the leadership of its joint secretaries, Mr. Walter Thornton and Mr. Arnold Edmundson, club leader since 1939.

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Walkers raise £125 for lifeboat

Members of Bournville Youth Club are planning to send a cheque for £125 to the appeal of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Ald. Charles Simpson, for a City of Birmingham life boat.

The money was raised by ten members of the club who took part in a 100 miles sponsored walk across the Yorkshire moors at Easter.

Mr. A.W. Edmundson, joint leader of Bournville Youth Club, said yesterday: "This is the second year that we have held a sponsored walk for the RNLI. We have managed to double last year's total.

"This was due mainly to sponsors being made more aware of the RNLI by both the Lord Mayor of Birmingham's appeal and the recent Longhope disaster."

Saved two

The club has helped the RNLI since 1955 when a lifeboat saved two members of the club who had fallen out of their canoe while trying to cross the Channel.

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I met a 2^nd cousin Arnold Edmundson (called after my Uncle Arnold) who was at school with Uncle Robert. Jolly, & mad like our family:– visiting a Borstal recently he was worried by the feeling of mounting tension (this does happen, then they start smashing things) so he pretended to have a heart attack & then told them he was acting, & then he stood on his head! (he is in the early 60^s, no, 59, former P.T. master) – a Chairman of Magistrates! It broke the tension, anyway!