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	ST. CATHERINE'S HOSPICE Driffield Support Group The Support Group are holding a Sunshine Walk on Sunday 11th September at 2 pm. The walk starts and ends at the Driffield Rugby Club, taking a route of approximately 5 miles around Driffield. The Police have consented to the walk taking place, and there will be stewards on the route. The cost is £3 for the entry fee, along with a sponsorship form, Walk Number and route map. There will be a Bouncy Castle, Hog Roast, Ice Cream Van, and Tombola at the Rugby Club. The Driffield School Swing Band and African Band will also be there. Even if you do not take part, please come along and give your support. Walk Packs can be purchased from Margaret Thompson, Tel: 420275


	CHAMBERS In beautiful weather, on Sunday July 10^th, I had the great pleasure in attending a 90^th birthday lunch for my second cousin Kath Algar at her home in Rudston. Richard and Hannah Chambers were our common ancestors. They came to Rudston from Seamer in the mid 19^th Century and Richard was a carrier. They had nine children, five of whom achieved adulthood, before Richard's early death in 1880 aged 46. The business was taken over by his son John, Kath's grandfather, who married Mary Deighton but, sadly, died aged 45 in 1904. The business was bought by Wilf Pudsey, whose late daughter Grace gave me, some five years ago, two orange trees (grown from pips) which still flourish in my garden. Kath's mother was Annie (wife of George Frederick Woodmansey), only surviving children of John and Mary. John's youngest sister, Christiana (our Ana, Aunt Ana), who died in 1945, married my Rudston-born grandfather William Thornton in 1890. They had five children, of whom my father Oliver (1907-