Archive for June, 2010

The co-founder in one of Howden’s oldest businesses is celebrating after gaining an honours degree aged 57.

Aquarius of Howden’s director Rick Kay’s  lifelong fascination with physics prompted him to embark on a degree course with the Open University in 2003.  Rick explains how it came about; “I had always harboured a desire to explore physics in detail.  By the time I got to 40, Aquarius bathrooms was well established and I considered that the time was right from a business perspective but I feared that I was too old to learn how to study and take notes all over again, so the idea was parked once more.”

A decade later, Rick bit the bullet and began an OU course that comprised six years of project and course work through distance learning and residential courses before graduating at London’s Barbican last month.

Of the achievement, Rick said; “I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and I’m delighted to have completed my degree.  It’s quite ironic that, having waited this long, I have now got the urge to continue learning and I plan to take a year off and then look at a research based masters.”

Rick, whose other interests include summer and winter climbing and ‘dabbling’ in music and the arts, was one of only 30 graduates from Yorkshire and one of only 300 nationwide to be awarded this prestigious degree.

The team at Aquarius has been delighting customers with its bespoke bathroom designs and installations for over 24 years.

Howden Cricket Club looking forward to welcoming Saturday cricket back to the Ashes playing field next season after a 12 year absence.
The club disbanded in the mid 1990s and the pavilion at the Treeton Road site fell into disrepair but a determined group of footballers and cricketers have worked tirelessly to restore the historic pavilion to its former glory in the shadow of the Minster.

Aquarius of Howden have helped to refurbish the historic building

Although the club reformed in 2004 and now plays in the Snaith and District evening league, there has been no Saturday cricket at the Ashes since 1998
A team including Aquarius of Howden employees Andy Smith, James Smith and Ian Mitchell have spent the last two months installing hot water and three new state of the art showers kindly supplied by Aquarius and will refurbish the toilets once the pavilion roof is made watertight over the next few weeks. The final stage of the refurbishment will be to fit the Howdens supplied kitchen and the make-over will be complete.
Former pace bowler and keen footballer Andy is delighted that the pavilion will be used again; “It’s such an important part of Howden’s history and we’re proud to have been a part of its restoration. We’re very grateful to Aquarius and Howdens as the project wouldn’t have been viable without their generosity.”
The earliest recorded match of Cricket in East Yorkshire apparently took place at Wallingfen near Gilberdyke on 13 August 1778, when Howden beat Beverley by 64 ‘notches’.
The team at Aquarius has been delighting customers with its bespoke bathroom designs and installations for over 24 years.