Double Chains of Office with Mayoral Visit to Probus Club
The Worshipful, The Mayor of Basingstoke & Deane, Cllr Colin Phillimore, was the guest of honour at the first meeting of the new season of the Probus Club of Basingstoke, which is entering its 46th year of activity.
Before lunch the mayor outlined his background, growing up in Whitchurch and attending Basingstoke’s Queen Mary’s grammar school, his first job at aged 16 at the Basingstoke headquarters of AA on £7 per week and then forty years in accountancy in the motor trade.
Cllr Phillimore has been the ward councillor for Whitchurch for ten years and has nominated the Whitchurch Community swimming pool as one of his mayoral charities, even though a non-swimmer, and St Michael’s Hospice, that needs £15,000 a day to cover its costs.
The Probus Club was pleased to make a donation towards the mayor’s charity appeal.
The other guest at this meeting was speaker Jackie Dimmock who reminisced about her lengthy career as a WPC in the Hampshire Police Force. She gave many examples of her experiences, some serious, others amusing, in a varying service in Scenes of Crime, working with Children’s Services and for many years as a Schools’ Liaison officer.
The Probus Club of Basingstoke is a club for retired men who had some management experience in the professions or business, hence the acronym Probus. Interested? Then see www.probusbasingstoke.club for more information or phone their secretary Andrew Barton for an informal chat on 07814 937202.
Probus Club of Basingstoke 
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