Family
David and Maggie have three children, Daniel, Nicholas and Judith. Daniel and Nicholas are married to Henrietta and Shaista, respectively. Daniel and Henrietta have one child, Natalie, and Nick and Shaista have two boys, Harun and Sami. David has two sisters, Margaret and Susan and Maggie has one sister, Pat. David's sister Margaret has two children, Jane and Rachel, and Maggie's sister Pat has a husband Robin and two children Katie and Patrick.
In the fulness of time this is going to be a big collection of pages!!
Daniel
Married to Henrietta in Amman in Jordan, 2005. The Blessing of the marriage was at Dalham Church in Suffolk in September. Family and Friends from Jordan, Portugal, Switzerland, Scotland, Manchester and Birmingham visited for the occasion. He has now settled with Henrietta in Amman where he manages the British Club. He has sold ball valves and industrial pipe, worked as a Financial Adviser (TSB) and worked in Quality Assurance for Home Shopping Europe prior to its demise following the Enron affair. He has also worked as a newsreader and DJ for Mood.fm. a Jordanian easy listening music radio station (English) and done free lance editing. Redundancies and a distaste for the unethical made him one of the most experienced, unemployed Business Studies graduates for a time. He decided to take a year out to acquire an MBA at Huddersfield University. Whilst there he met Henrietta. With the MBA successfully under his belt, he obtained a job with The Best Practice Club in Cambridge and worked for them for a year before marrying Henrietta and moving to Amman.
Now he works as administrator of the British Club in the British Embassy in Amman and has resumed some part time working (in his own time) with Mood.fm.
In January of this year Henrietta and Daniel adopted Natalie, a newly born abandonned baby. More pictures when I learn how!
Henrietta
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Natalie
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David
David Pugh (whose website this is) - a brief biography
I retired from the headship of a 9-13 Middle School in Suffolk in August 2000. After I retired I undertook a number of consultancy/interim management roles for a period of about three years. Since then, this web site has become a compulsive part of my retirement project.
I trained as a music teacher at Bretton Hall in the mid sixties and started my professional life in Morley, Leeds, where I taught for two years. I then taught in Livingstone (Zambia), Slough, Northampton, Devon and lastly in Suffolk.
Extended study resulted in an Advanced Diploma in Educational Studies (Junior Education) from Leicester University, an OU degree in Music and Philosophy and a Master's degree in Creative Arts in Education from Exeter (tutor: Malcolm Ross)
Arranging and composing music has been a central part of my life throughout my career. A hymn tune of mine appears in 'A Time to Sing' (Macmillan's school hymn book) though I doubt anybody sings it now. Through most of my adolescent and adult life I have played a church organ - and conducted Church Choirs. I presently play at St. Philip's and St. Etheldreda (The Hospital Chapel) in Newmarket. I have been interested in early music, play the recorder - all of them my fingers will now fit - and in the 1970's and 80's was a member of the Nene Consort under Dick Coles in Northampton - happy times!
Part of my retirement plan is to assemble my music, original compositions and arrangements, and publish them on the net. An increasing number of these are new, but the school music ones were written for use by children in the classroom. Hard copy is also also available.
Judith
Judith still works as an Events Executive for ESRI (UK), a significant Geographic Information System company but now travels between the Cambridge and Aylsbury offices. A full programme of organising events from conferences and exhibitions to seminars and meetings, keeps her busy.
The picture is of Judith with Harun. Nick and Shaista's eldest
Leslie Pugh
Collected Quotations
Rev. Leslie Pugh 1912—2007
Leslie Pugh ‘s
Collected Quotations
Leslie Pugh was an avid reader. During his ministry he copied snippets from anything he happened to be reading in the expectation that it would sometime come in handy when he was preparing sermons. This is a copy of that collection of quotations. They cover the whole range from philosophy/tehology to simple observation of life. They equally have relevance to a wide range of people and their understandings of human behaviour and ideas.
Leslie's Early Life
Rev. Leslie Pugh 1912 - 2007
The Reverend Leslie Pugh was born In Keighley, Yorkshire in 1912. He trained as a draughtsman and married Caroline Elizabeth Martin in 1935. They had three children, Margaret, born 1940, David, born 1944 and Susan, born 1947.
Before the war Leslie was a member of the Peace Pledge Union and for a short time the Independent Labour Party. During the war he was a conscientious objector and worked mainly on the land. He also packed medical supplies and was a fire watcher in Manchester. After the war he trained as a Congregational Minister and took up his first appointment in 1949 at Breightmet Free Church, Bolton. In 1954 he moved to Droylsden, between Manchester and Ashton under Lyne. In 1969 he moved again, this time to Farnworth - Albert Road Congregational Church - though by now, after its union with the Presbyterian Church, it had become United Reformed. His final ministry was at Little Hulton, near Farnworth. He retired from there at the age of 67 in 1979. Carrie died in the same year. After being looked after many years by Margaret, his final years were spent being cared for in Bolton until his death on December 29th 2006. He was frail and had lost his mental powers.
On clearing the house when he went into care, Margaret, David and Susan came across a hand written collection of neatly catalogued quotations. These had been gleaned from the wide variety of books that Leslie read during his professional life and were used in sermons, of which he preached two of twenty minutes each every Sunday and produced others for other occasions. The collection is of interest because it indicates the range of his reading and also shows insight into the thoughts which governed his theological thinking. They range from everyday writings to Paul Tillich and through every period of history.
The properly annotated list is in the process of being completed on the 'Quotations' page of the allonsong.com website.
(allonsong.com/family→Rev. Leslie Pugh→ Quotations)
Maggie
Married (38 years!)- Maggie - not too interested in modern technology, like web pages, although she's recently acquired a laptop and is getting to grips with it. Also she doesn't usually like having her photograph taken! Great interest in the WI, though not in Calendars. REtired as a supply teacher and LSA in a local primary school. And also an efficient and hardworking Church Warden. She makes jams, pickles and chutneys to sell to walkers and other visitors to the church. She also organises the cache for geocaching visitors.
Nicholas
Married to Shaista, 2003, Nick is currently doing post Doctoral research at Cambridge University. Following the birth of their two sons, Harun and Sami, Shaista gave up her research work at the Babrahan Centre to train as a teacher. Now she is teaching in Haverill, a very difficult environment, albeit in Suffolk (I speak as an ex governor of a Haverhill school).
The 2003 weddings - one Muslim, one Christian, were a delight for the respective families. Now happily occupying a house near Cambridge after an exciting but delayed honeymoon to Peru. The trip to Peru was thoroughly enjoyed and in the following year they went to Egypt.
Harun, now aged five has just started school and thus deprived his grandparents of their one day a week in his company. However, Sami, now three, has a year or so to go before we are deprived of his company. Slowly, slowly, please
This picture was taken at Nick's PhD graduation at Imperial College, London and will shortly enter the archive!
Haroun
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Sami
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Shaista
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