SIMON was born in March 1973 and after attending Great Leighs Primary School moved
on to Chelmer Valley High School in Broomfield and after requiring the necessary
grades in his A level examinations he was accepted at Exeter University to study
Mathematics. He graduated from Exeter with a BSc First Class Honours degree and then
took up employment with Clerical and Medical as an acturial student based at Bristol.
Unfortunately he was made redundant from this post after 18 months but quickly gained
a similar position with the Albany Life Insurance Company in Potters Bar which was
later taken over by the Canada Life company in the same town. Unfortunately on December
3, 2004, he was once again made redundant but obtained employment as Financial Reporting
Manager with the Legal and General in Surrey, commencing this position in January
2005. In January 2004 he moved to Epping where he bought a house with his fiance,
Mary. They were married on Sunday, September 3, 2006 and have since moved to a larger
house in Epping. His hobbies and interests are chess, skiing, going to the gym, travel,
football, running and reading and his current mode of transport is a silver Peugeot
208. At the end of June 2005 he left his position at Legal and General and obtained
another with the Aviva company in London, just a few minutes from Liverpool Street
Station. In May 2017 he changed jobs once again and is now working for the Lloyds
Banking Group in the city.
MARY attended the Little Waltham Primary School and then progressed to Rainsford
Secondary School in Chelmsford. At the age of 15 in 1956 she left school and gained
employment at the Essex Chronicle newspaper as a junior in the Front Office. Mary
left the Essex Chronicle in January 1973 and our son Simon was born in the March
of that year. She stayed at home with Simon until he started school in 1978 and when
the new Great Leighs Primary School was opened obtained a post there as a Midday
Assistant (Dinner Lady). Later on moving on to a similar position at the John Payne
School in Chelmsford and stayed working there until she retired in 2001. Her interests
are shopping, walking, gardening, travel in the UK, eating out, watching football,
and yes, even more shopping!! Unfortunately Mary was taken ill in 2016 and died of
cancer in August 2017.
Site updated September 2024
Colin Brian Moth Born June 1936
In the late 1960s new technology started to appear in the newspaper and printing industry with the introduction of computerised typesetting and from that time until my retirement in 2001 I was heavily involved in the various systems that were introduced and eventually ended up with the "grand" title of Production Systems Manager responsible for both Advertising and Production Computing Systems. When I retired from the Essex Chronicle in 2001 I had completed 49 years service. Always keen on sport in my youth I played local football for the village team (known as Leighs United) and also for the Essex Chronicle in the Chelmsford Sunday League, tennis in the village, a bit of cycling, table tennis in the Chelmsford Table Tennis League then squash for over 20 years at the Chelmsford Squash Club. I retired from the squash scene back in 2001 and I now keep fit by walking regularly and playing golf. I joined the Little Waltham Golf Centre in 2003 as a 5-day member and regularly play the game (see my Golf Page and also my Golf Blog). I still enjoy watching football and spent the 2001-02 season as a regular supporter of Ipswich Town at all their home matches at Portman Road. My other main interests are eating out, going to the cinema and travel (and also keeping the garden tidy). I also like driving and my current transport is a Toyota Aygo X Edge Auto that I purchased in 2023 (see a photos on my Transport Page). I reached the ripe old age of 88 in June 2024.
Mary Gillian Moth Born February 1941 - Died August 2017
Simon Conrad Moth and Mary Kenny-Moth
SIMON AND MARY LIVE IN EPPING
I AM number five in a family of seven with three brothers and three sisters, and attended the Great Leighs Primary School from 1941 to 1947. Passing my 11-Plus exam I then went to the Braintree County High School until I left in 1952 when I obtained an apprenticeship as a compositor with the Essex Chronicle newspaper who were then based in the High Street in Chelmsford. In January 1955 I was called up to do two years National Service and I joined the Royal Army Service Corps. Demobbed in January 1957 I returned to the Essex Chronicle and was then sent on a Linotype Typsesetting Machine training course in London for three months after which I then spent approximately ten years operating one of those machines. On my return to the Chronicle after my Army service I met my future wife, Mary (who worked in the front office at the Essex Chronicle) and we got married in 1959 and we set up home in a caravan in my Mum and Dad's garden. Two years later we were able to have our own bungalow built on the same site and we have lived there ever since. Our son, Simon, was born in 1973 and he now lives in Epping with his wife (also a Mary).
