Sir Ernest (Ernie) William Titterton Ph. D. (4 March 1916 in Tamworth, UK – 8 February 1990) was a nuclear physicist and professor.

Early Years

Ernest William Titterton, was born of William Alfred and Elizabeth Titterton in Kettlebrook, Tamworth on 4 March 1916.

Titterton’s primary education that began next door to the family home in Kettlebrook at a single-room school for infants, starting at the age of four. After two years, his studies moved to a boys-only school in Glastcote, Tamworth. This council school in a mining town had basic science facilities (uncommon at that time), and it was there that his interest in science was first kindled. At ten, Titterton won a scholarship to attend Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar school (Tamworth), where he performed consistently well. After topping the class frequently, he entered to sixth form, which was at that time reserved for gifted students expected to continue to study at a tertiary level. Ernest studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, and under the tutelage of physics teacher William Summerhayes, he thrived.

In 1934, Titterton was accepted into University of Birmingham on a scholarship basis. Due to his achievements at secondary school, Ernest was allowed to begin his tertiary studies with second-year subjects, and even then he was said to have found them easy. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in 1936 with distinctions in both pure and applied mathematics and, of course, physics. An honours year quickly followed, and Titterton topped the year in Physics.

One year later, Ernest was presented with a University scholarship, and worked in a research position under Professor Mark Oliphant. The project he shared with another student was to determine if the weak alpha activity of samarium was due to the electron or gamma ray components of cosmic rays. Upon completion of these experiments, Titterton was awarded a Master of Science in 1938. As a requirement of his scholarship, Ernest was required to become a teacher for a year. This met a lukewarm reception, but he graduated from the Diploma in Education, and was even awarded the Elizabeth Cadbury Prize for achieving top in the class.

After a call from Oliphant, who wanted to develop a small wavelength radiation generator, Titterton worked as a research officer with the British Admiralty for the early part of the second world war, working on radar systems. Though the work was classed top-secret, he was allowed to submit it to Birmingham and was awarded a PhD in physics in 1941.

Moving into Nuclear Research

After his studies in radar, Titterton decided to pursue an interest in nuclear technology and joined the British Scientific Mission in USA, which was working on the development of the first nuclear weapons. In July 1945 he was a senior member of the timing group that fired the first nuclear weapon at Alamogordo, New Mexico. A year later he was promoted to Chief Instrumentation Advisor to the Task Force Commander at the Bikini Atoll nuclear weapons testing facility. For the following year, he was Head of Electronics in the Los Alamos laboratory.

For the next three years, Titterton headed Nuclear Emulsion and Cloud Chamber Research at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire.

To Australia

In August 1950, Titterton was given the role of Foundation Professor to the Chair of Nuclear Physics at Australian National University. However, his international interests contintued and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of London and the American Physical Society, both in 1952. In 1954 a similar honour was bestowed upon his as one of the earliest fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.

For the next thirty years, Titterton held high positions on various science, defense and nuclear-related committees, institutes and councils in Australia, including: Australian Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee (1954-1956), Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Scientific Advisory Committee (1955-1964), Council of the Institute of Defence Science, Department of Supply (1957-1972), Australian Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee (1957-1973), National Radiation Advisory Committee (1957-1973), Federal Government’s Defence Research and Development Policy Committee( 1958-1973), Council of the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (1960-1984), Council of the Australian Academy of Science (1964-1966), Advisory Committee of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (1967-1981)

During this time, Titterton continued to pursue his academic interests and was the Dean of Research School of Physical Sciences, Director of Research School of Physical Sciences (1969-1973), a professor of nuclear physics (1973-1981) a member of council at Macquarie University (1978-1984)

During his career, Titterton received a plethora of awards, most notably being appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and Knighthood in 1970.

Retirement

Titterton officially retired in 1981, but retained a position as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Nuclear Physics of Australian National University. He divorced in 1986, and was injured seriously in a car accident, which left him wheelchair-bound. He died on 8 February 1990.

Career Summary of Ernest William Titterton

Sir Ernest (Ernie) William Titterton Ph. D. (4 March 1916 in Tamworth, UK – 8 February 1990) was a nuclear physicist and professor.

Born on December 12, 1952, Roger’s career kicked off with Dosthill Rovers, before moving on to Bolehall Swifts. Roger William Brown was professional football player who played as a centre-back for Bournemouth, Norwich City and Fulham.

Playing Career

Brown began his career as a trainee at Walsall. However, he temporarily retired from the professional game until 1978 when A.F.C Bournemouth signed him from Leamington. In July 1979, he graduated to First Division football when he moved to Norwich City, but then dropped one tier when he was transferred to Fulham in March 1980.
Fulham were relegated in 1981, but gained promotion in 1982 with Brown scoring 12 goals from defence. In December 1983, he returned to Bournemouth and made another 84 appearances for them, including a shock 2-0 win in the FA Cup against Manchester United. He later played for non-league sides Weymouth and Poole Town.

Managing Career

After his playing career was over, Brown became the manager of Poole Town. In November 1987, he was appointed manager of Colchester United. However, his stint was not successful, Colchester were top of the Fourth Division at the start of 1988 but finished the season in ninth place. After an 8-0 loss to Leyton Orient in October 1988, Brown was sacked.

Brown died on 17 August 2011 after a long battle with cancer. The funeral service takes place at St Editha’s Parish Church in Tamworth on Thursday, September 1 at 12pm.

Jemma Palmer (born 4th october 1986) is an English model and professional wrestler. She is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment, set to train in their developmental facility Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). She is also known by the name Inferno, which she used in the 2008 British television series Gladiators.

Modelling

Palmer grew up modelling under the encouragement of her mother, winning the Little Miss Midlands and Miss Littlesea competitions as a child. As an adult she entered a number of competitions, becoming a finalist in the 2006 Musclemania Britain, Miss Hawaiian Tropic, Ms USA Dream Bikini Body and Miss Maxim UK competitions. She also came third in the Maxim Little Black Book UK modelling competition.
She went on to model in many publications including Loaded, WWE Magazine, FHM and Fabulous Magazine. Her modelling work was compared to video game character Lara Croft by the Daily Mail.

Gladiators

While her mother encouraged Palmer into modelling, her father encouraged her into athletics. She enrolled in the cadets where she began to train in climbing, abseiling and amateur wrestling. She would later gain a purple belt in submission wrestling.
As a fan of Gladiators growing up, when rumours mounted of a revival show in 2008 she began sending promotional material to television companies. Her wrestling manager landed her an audition for the similarly timed American Gladiators revival, but she received a call up for Sky1′s British version days later and passed their fitness test. She performed in both series of Gladiators under the name Inferno, sporting red hair and a fiery, flirtatious personality. Despite not appearing on the American version, BBC America aired Gladiators in the United States. As a cadet, she also later appeared on Sky1′s Battle of The Forces which pitted the British Army, Royal Navy and RAF against each other.

British circuit (2005–present)

Along with her other exploits Palmer also was a fan of wrestling, particularly the original incarnation of D-Generation X. In 2005, she began to appear for the Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA) mainly as a valet for Doug Williams. This led to her having a try out match with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) alongside Katarina Waters who went on to become Katie Lea Burchill. Although she was not signed, she was later offered a scholarship to train at Ultimate Pro Wrestling. During her time on the circuit, Palmer filmed a reality television show based on pro wrestling as one of the three lead stars.
After much training, she was booked for her debut match against Jetta at Pro-Wrestling: Eve’s first show on 8 May 2010 in Sudbury, Suffolk. Before her match with Jetta she suffered an injury in her hand but wrestled the match anyway, with a storyline written in that Jetta attacked her and goaded her into a match while she was explaining the injury to the crowd. The referee stopped the contest and awarded it to Jetta out of concern for Palmer’s health.

Florida Championship Wrestling (2009–present)

On June 29, 2009 it was announced that Palmer had signed a contract with Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW).

Big Brother (2011)

Jemma entered the UK Big Brother house during the shows twelfth series in 2011. Her younger sister Faye Palmer was an original housemate on the show, and was still a contestant when Jemma arrived on Day 29.

Ash End House Farm is a family owned farm which has been operating as a Childrens Farm for nearly 30 years. Ash End House Farm’s aim is to provide an enjoyable and educational hands on experience for children of all ages.

Ash End House Farm are open to the general public and specialize in guided tours for school parties and play groups.

Ash End House Childrens Farm, is a small family owned farm with lots of friendly animals to feed and stroke mostly undercover. A fun filled day out for all the family. Children will have feed for the animals, sit on a pony, a farm badge and can hold a newly hatched chick or duckling. All inclusive price – no hidden extra charges!

“Three Little Pigs Story” and “Little Red Hen Story” during school holidays and weekends. In Spring and Summer the children can help bottle feed the lambs and goat kids. We have 3 play areas, crazy golf, family games yard and an indoor toddlers tractor and trike barn!

Father Christmas and Nativity Story during December. Birthday parties are a speciality with four different themes to choose from!

Tamworth Photographic Club are a small and friendly club of around 50 members. Tamworth Photographic Club members are of all levels of ability and have varied interests and backgrounds.

Tamworth Photographic Club always welcome new members warmly.Tamworth Photographic Club was founded in 1968.

The club was born in a photographic class at the local college at the suggestion of the lecturer who became its first chairman.

As well as receiving visiting lecturers, the club arranges practical evenings, tutorials, internal competitions and competes against other local clubs.

The club meets on Wednesdays at Wilnecote Working Men’s Club at 8pm.

The club season runs from September to May / June, and breaks over the summer.

Membership is open to all. One year’s subscription costs £35; non-members can attend three meetings free of charge to decide if the club is for them. Come along and Tamworth Photographic Club will make you very welcome.

Able Seaman Colin Grazier was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the “outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger” which he displayed on 30 October 1942 in action in the Mediterranean.

Lieutenant Francis Fasson RN also won the George Cross for the courage that he displayed during the same incident. On 30 October 1942, the destroyer on which they served, HMS Petard, attacked and badly damaged the German U Boat U-559, in conjunction with the Destroyers HMS Pakenham and HMS Hero, the escort destroyers HMS Dulverton and HMS Hurworth, and an RAF Sunderland flying boat of 47 Squadron based in Port Said.

The crew of the U-559 surrendered and her crew was taken off with no casualties. Fasson and Grazier, along with NAAFI canteen assistant Tommy Brown, swam naked to the U-559 and entered the sinking submarine in complete darkness to capture instruments and documentation, fully aware that the submarine could sink without warning at any time. Grazier and Fasson continued to search for and hand over documents and equipment until suddenly the submarine sank, drowning them both.

The awards were published in the London Gazette on 14 September 1943. It has been speculated that due to the significance of their actions they might have been awarded VCs, however secrecy of the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers had to be maintained. Despite this speculation, it should be pointed out that VCs can only be awarded for acts of valour while under enemy fire.

In Grazier’s home town of Tamworth there is a Hotel named after him, which contains a gallery of photographs, and an Avenue, and an office block named after Colin Grazier. In October 2002, a commemorative sculpture was unveiled in Tamworth to honour Grazier and his two colleagues involved in the capture of documents from U559.

The sculpture, the work of Polish sculptor Walenty Pytel, takes the form of three anchors, and the date of the unveiling was chosen to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the action against U559.

Colin Grazier Memorial standing in the Church Square in Tamworth. Colin was responsible, along with others, for recovering the codes used to decipher the Enigma code machine in WW2. Detailed text of the memorial here:

Memorial

Colin Grazier, 1920-1942

This memorial is dedicated to Able Seaman Colin Grazier of Two Gates, Tamworth, who gave his life recovering vital Enigma Codes from a sinking German U-boat.

His extraordinary bravery, together with that of Lt

Tony Fasson and Tommy Brown, all of HMS Petard, changed the course of WWII, saving countless lives worldwide.

While undoubtedly one of the World’s greatest war heroes, Grazier was also one of the least known. Details of his actions remained secret for decades depriving him of the true recognition he so richly deserved. This tribute was erected in the year 2002 following a campaign in the Tamworth Herald which attracted worldwide interest.

It was made possible with the support of local ex-service and civic organisations.

Erected in memory of all Tamworth people who died for their country.