THE MEMORY of a cherished colleague has prompted members of Ferndale Working Men's Club to give £250 to the Evening Advertiser's Swindon Disease Memorial Appeal.
The club helped bring the total raised by the appeal to £7,000, just £3,000 short of our £10,000 target, by giving the cheque in memory of former club treasurer Arnold Woolford, from St. Mary's Grove.
Mr Woolford, 79, died last year of the so-called Swindon Disease, mesothelioma, after being exposed to deadly asbestos fibres while working as a carpenter and joiner at Swindon's railway works.
Club sports secretary Colin Payne said: "The railway workers played a big part in the working men's club movement in Swindon.
"So we made the donation because of Mr Woolford and the several former railway workers in the club who are suffering from the disease."
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