Hi Reg, Frank Shepherd moved to Belfast as a newly promoted HTO around 1973 and he and two friends regularly went fishing at the weekends. Tragically one of them, Sammy Dalzell ‘ the wee man’ in the poem was killed in a cycling accident in Belfast. After Sammy’s death, another of the three, Ken McBride wrote…
Day: 19 January 2022
Charles Ian McClure 1940–2022
The following notice appeared in the Eastern Daily Press dated 15 January 2022: “McCLURE CHARLES IAN Peacefully on January 4th, 2022, at the Acute Medical Unit in the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, aged 81 years. Dearly loved husband, father, grandfather and brother. Service at Beccles Crematorium on Wednesday, January 26th at 3 p.m. Family…