Founder of Bromborough Paints and Building Supplies, Harry Wellings passed away after a short illness on 14 th May, he was 95. Very much a self made man, Harry served his time as a joiner in the building trade in the late 1920’s, before forming his own Company building houses, including his own.

The war years interrupted Harrys progress, being initially in reserved occupation repairing bomb damaged houses in Birkenhead, before being called up in 1943 and being posted to France shortly after D-Day.

In 1948 Harry founded Bromborough Paints and Building Supplies and it was through sheer hard work and determination in those early days that the business was able to grow and mature into a thriving Builders Merchant at its Eastham site and to become the North West’s leading independent paint and wallpaper distributor from its Bromborough and Abergele sites, delivering daily to retail outlets from Aberystwyth to the Scottish Borders.

In recent years Harry was still a guiding hand to the current MD, his son Neville as the Company further developed its Decorators Merchant side of the business opening branches at Padiham, Kendal, Chester, Winsford and most recently Shrewsbury.

As well as being an astute businessman, Harry was a season ticket holder at Everton for almost 50 years and an enthusiastic golfer where he held the roles of Captain as well as Captain of the Liverpool Society of Golf Captains and in 2000 Harry had the honour of following three Lord Leverhulmes as the fourth President of Bromborough Golf Club in its 100 year history.

Harry was still calling into work on a daily basis up to early last year and will be sorely missed by his family and all at the Company he founded which will be celebrating its 60 th anniversary at the end of this year.

MAGNIFICENT: Goalkeeper Chris Beaumont receives the Man of the Match award from Neville Wellings, Managing Director of Bromborough Paints. Other team members, back row, left to right: Martin Hartley, Nick Earp, Andy Denton, Chris Beaumont. Front: Adam Crosby, Paul Scott, Matthew Mowat

A FIVE-a-side football team from Bromborough suffered heartache in the final of a national competition at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.

Bromborough Paints Building Supplies team drew 0-0 with Barking-based Lyndhurst & Lane Ltd in the Johnstone's Paint National Five-a-Side Competition - but lost on the number of corners conceded. Time constraints meant there could be no penalty shoot-out.

The game was played prior to the Johnstone's Paints Football League Trophy Final between Doncaster Rovers and Bristol Rovers.

Said Bromborough Paints skipper Adam Crosby: "Although we lost in the final, it was a fantastic experience to be one of the very last football teams to play on the turf of the Millennium Stadium - now we want to make double history by making it to next year's final at the new Wembley Stadium."

Bromborough goalkeeper Chris Beaumont was named Man of the Match. Neville Wellings, Managing Director of Bromborough Paints, commented: "Chris played an absolute blinder of a match - it was his magnificent saves that kept the score to 0-0."