On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:05:12 +0000, "Steve Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Yes, Irene passed away earlier this year, a sad loss to anyone who values >women of strong character, or eccentric nature. She was a testimony to plain >speaking, an antithesis of the mealy-mouthed carefulness that characterizes >our politically correct age. If Irene felt something, she said it; if she >wanted to do something, she did it. Writing to Finch is just the sort of >irksome confrontational thing she would do. She would probably feel some >bizarre affinity with his anarchic lifestyle, and though she wouldn't have >sympathised with his criminality she wasn't against confronting the law >herself on a point of principal. Many will remember her long running battle >with BW about the correct nomenclature of what they persisted in calling >'Little' Bourton lock, and what she - by consistent defacing the lock sign >- insisted was just Bourton Lock. > That was a very nice tribute Steve. It reminded me also of the lady at Wardle Lock at Middlewich. I've not heard anything about her for a while - I hope she is ok ? -- Malcolm
