John Edward Cooper’s Notes

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What's here:
Contents
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Alphabetical listing
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Vacations and visits
(listed below)
Navigation tips, etc.
(below)


About me:

John Edward Cooper: b.Blackpool, 19 May 1950, to Marjorie (1922–2019) and Charles (1923–2004) who have departed to be with Christ, which is better by faraway from the body and at home with the Lord [Philippians 1:23, 2Corinthians 5:8, NIV]; older brother Steven (b.1948); m.Janet, 23 Aug. 1975. Member of City Church, Great Grimsby and North East Lincolnshire. Employed by Jobcentre Plus (1975–2010), latterly Finance Officer; retired July 2010 — hurrah!
Also find me at:
www.facebook.com/john.e.cooper1

Vacations and visits:
Photos, and text from my diary, about vacations and visits, are what I post mostly nowadays.

Vacations and visits in 2012
Egypt
Norway

Mum’s 90th birthday “do”
Italy
Russia
Israel

Vacations and visits in 2013
Lanzarote
Italy
Nottingham
Turkey
Mediterranean Cruise
North Wales
Aegean Cruise

Vacations and visits in 2014
Morocco
Rome
China
Robin Hood’s Bay and Scarborough Camp
revisit
Jordan

Vacations and visits in 2015
Peru
Sicily
Wedding of Tony and Basia
Malta and Gozo

Vacations and visits in 2016
Caribbean
Iceland, Faroes and Northern Isles Cruise
Sardinia
Apulia, Italy
Cyprus

Vacations and visits in 2017
Cambodia and Vietnam
Helsinki, Tallinn and Riga
“Classical Spain”
Weelsby Woods, Grimsby

Vacations and visits in 2018
The Blue Danube
Portugal

Vacations and visits in 2019
Lincoln Cathedral & (briefly) Castle
My Mum’s funeral
Hull Hull Minster & Ferens Art Gallery
Dubrovnik
Louth Hubbard’s Hills
Switzerland
Hull The Deep
Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre
Louth St. James’ Church & Louth Museum
York
Market Rasen and Caistor
Beverley
Minster & North Bar
Louth
Museum closed so St. James’ Church

Vacations and visits in 2020
Hull
Lincoln
Castle
Beverley
St. Mary’s Church
York

Vacations and visits in 2021
The Peak District – Chatsworth & Buxton
Scarborough
Louth
Hubbard’s Hills

Vacations and visits in 2022
Hull
The Deep
Crete
Grimsby
Time Trap Museum
Lincoln Museum of Lincolnshire Life
Louth St. James’ Church & Louth Museum
Madeira

Vacations and visits in 2023
Provence
“Timeless Provence”
Austrian Tyrol and Innsbruck
Montenegro:
Budva, Cetinje and the Bay of Kotor


Most significant
life-event:

One night in January 1965, my friends Peter and Chris, and I, aged 14, ran away from home.[more] “Home” was in Thornton Cleveleys near Blackpool. Chris suffered from epilepsy.[more] We’d seen a TV programme about a church in Manchester that claimed miracles of healing,[more] and were seeking a cure for his fits. After a number of adventures, including being given hospitality by a total stranger,[more] we ended up the next afternoon at the home of one of the pastors who had been on the TV.[more] We should have been in school, of course. Pastor Williams laid his hands on Chris and commanded the “evil spirit of epilepsy” to leave him in the name of Jesus Christ.[more] Whether or not there really was an evil spirit doesn’t matter: Chris never had another fit. And we were convinced straight away that God had done it—we saw no need to wait and see![more]

I started posting stuff on the internet a few years ago mainly because I wanted to publish the events of 1965.
 
Initially I used MySpace, on the profile page of which I found two headings: “About me”, and “Who I’d like to meet”. This latter is now revised and expanded as “Whom I’d like to meet”.

Then I started posting my 1965 stories on Facebook, where blog-entries were called “Notes”. That’s possibly where I got the name John Edward Cooper’s Notes from, for the hundreds of articles you’ll find posted here.

The 1965 stories required some Early Days material for background information; and it was only a step further, after posting that, to attempt to post everything that I could recall or find out from my Early Days.
 
Then I went forward and posted 1966 — the whole of the diary I kept for parts of that year, and other documents.
 
To round off that story I added selected material from 1967
 
And things continued to develop from there…

Who [sic!] I’d like to meet:
[original MySpace version]


…In eternity, everyone who is, or has been, dear to me.

Alfred Edersheim (1825–1889) wrote:
…Of this we are well assured, that the Judge of all the Earth will judge, not only righteously, but mercifully. He alone knows all the secrets of heart and life, and He alone can apportion to each his due meed. And in this assured conviction may the mind trustfully rest as regards those who have been dear to us. …Of these things does he [the writer] feel fully assured: that we may absolutely trust in the loving-kindness of our God; that the work of Christ is for all and of infinite value, and that its outcome must correspond to its character; and, lastly, for practical purposes, that in regard to those who have departed (whether or not we know of grace in them) our views and our hopes should be the widest (consistent with Scripture teaching), and that as regards ourselves, personally and individually, our views as to the need of absolute and immediate faith in Christ as the Saviour, of holiness of life, and of service of the Lord Jesus, should be the closest and most rigidly fixed.
The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Appendix XIX: "The Question of Eternal Punishment"
Because I "know of grace" in my Dad Charles, the prospect of seeing him again goes beyond "widest hopes" to full assurance. I pray that this will become true for all those who are dear to me, who are still alive and are left, but in whom I do not yet "know of grace".

See the current version here.

Notes, including navigation tips:
I use a Google Chrome browser on an old Samsung notebook computer using Windows 7 Starter and an external monitor with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080, with a moderately fast, wired broadband connection; and the pages of John Edward Cooper's Notes look and work fine. Even the largest pages download and display without undue delay. When I'm out and about, say in a pub, and use the Wi-Fi that's provided for customers, I have no complaints about speed. I can't vouch, though, for how the pages will look or work on any other devices, using other software.
 Some of the links take you to pages that themselves have links to take you back to where you started; but most pages don't have these, meaning you have to hit the browser's "back" arrow/button/whatever to take you back to where you came from.
 There's a link at the top of every page to "Home", "Contents", "Alphabetical listing", etc.
 "Contents" is arranged in more or less chronological order. From it, there are links to other listings: "Family History", "Early Days", "1965", etc., etc.
 The "Early Days" stories all have a link taking you back to the top of the "Early Days" listing; but if you want to find the next story in the list, it's best to hit the browser back arrow.
 The "1965" stories are a bit more helpful; if you open one of them, you'll find that there's a link just below the title to take you to the previous story, and at the bottom to take you to the next story.
 The "Alphabetical listing" is far from complete.



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