Chris's Funeral

[TonyP]

Hi Clair, firstly my condolences, sad loss indeed. Unfortunately I cannot make the funeral as I am away that week.

 

[Towpack]

Yes, I'll be there.

 

[Shayne]

I'd like very much to see that convoy what better salute could there be but it seems unlikely i will make it . Bravo to you Claire for making it a celebration of what we had and thank you for the open invite .

 

[Chris]

Thanks guys, Trying to find pictures of him with his cruiser, he was shy in having them taken! Anyone got a good one?

Claire

 

[tonytoyota]

Hi Claire I will love to be at the Celebration of life and funeral can sum one put my in thanks a lot Tony.

 

[Gary Stockton]

Hello Claire, deepest condolences to you and the kids. I’ll be trekking down from Edinburgh and shall stay over Thursday and probably Friday evening. Happy to join in the LandCruiser drive past….

1 Andy
2.Sam
3. Jacob 100
4. Gav
5. Jon Wildsmith
6. Raj
7 karl and the crew
8 Gary820
9. Nick
10. Gary

 

[SpinDrift]

Thank you for the invite Claire. I hope you and the family are as well as can be under the circumstances.

Regretfully, Ginta and I will not be able to join you for the Celebration of Life as we are committed to supporting an event for the whole of that week.

 

[Gr8Yota]

I’m going to get there with the FJ.

1 Andy
2.Sam
3. Jacob 100
4. Gav
5. Jon Wildsmith
6. Raj
7 karl and the crew
8 Gary820
9. Nick
10. Gary
11. Sarah

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

1. Andy
2.Sam
3. Jacob 100
4. Gav
5. Jon Wildsmith
6. Raj
7 karl and the crew
8 Gary820
9. Nick
10. Towpack
11. tonytoyota
12. Gary
13. Sarah

 

[tonytoyota]

Thanks for that

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

Thanks guys, Trying to find pictures of him with his cruiser, he was shy in having them taken! Anyone got a good one?

Claire

I have a few from the early days, mostly Chris in his truck doing what he loved, not posing for the camera Hopefully someone got a more recent picture?

03/10/2009 at Lincomb, he still has little blue. I think Michael might have come with him?
He came laning with me and Ray a few times in little blue but I don't have pics unfortunately

07/01/2011 somewhere in Wales. This was the trip Keith broke his ankle.

Leaving Strata the next day, we're a man down!

03/12/2011 Happy Valley, in Wales. Bit of a squeeze

We stop on Strata to see who has the most droop

It's December ... Karl is obviously telling Chris he should wear a woolly hat like his (Karl's) nan told him to

Oh look, Chris is playing in a puddle again. Happy Valley.

13/05/2013 Changing tyres, like you do if you have a super on board air system.

08/10/2012 At Lincomb, on the rocky road Tony put in. I think only Ben and Chris gave it a go?

Not my picture, but in my collection.

07/09/2013 Lincomb again. Someone's stuck and Chris is in the thick of it recovering them.

So many more pictures in my head, and shared experiences that I wish it was possible to post. He won't be forgotten.

 

[Andy]

and after a glass of shandy!!


we were stuck in a russian bog & some locals turned up, Chris was soon distracted!

l

lincombe around 2010/12?

 

[Graham]

Wonderful photos.

 

[Gary Stockton]

I've a few,need to dig them out

 

[SteveJB]

Can someone please put me down will be up on Thursday stay for remembrance either back home Friday night Saturday morning depending on pain threshold thanks

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

1. Andy
2.Sam
3. Jacob 100
4. Gav
5. Jon Wildsmith
6. Raj
7 karl and the crew
8 Gary820
9. Nick
10. Towpack
11. tonytoyota
12. Gary
13. Sarah
14. SteveJB

 

[DH.120]

95% sure I can get the time off, put me on the list.

1. Andy
2.Sam
3. Jacob 100
4. Gav
5. Jon Wildsmith
6. Raj
7 karl and the crew
8 Gary820
9. Nick
10. Towpack
11. tonytoyota
12. Gary
13. Sarah
14. SteveJB
15. Dave

 

[Trevor]

1.Andy
2.Sam
3. Jacob 100
4. Gav
5. Jon Wildsmith
6. Raj
7 karl and the crew
8 Gary820
9. Nick
10. Towpack
11. tonytoyota
12. Gary
13. Sarah
14. SteveJB
15. Dave
16. Trev

 

[sae70]

OMG! I can't believe that I've stumbled over this so sad news. That'll teach me to spend so long away from you guys! Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to make it to the funeral as Friday 24th is my eldest son's prom night following his GCSE's (Robert). Both my boys Robert and Daniel are going to be gutted when I tell them that he is no longer with us. Robert first met Chris when he was only four years old and he's now almost 16! Both the boys affectionately called him Bat Man Chris as a way of identifying him from other members with the same name due to him wearing a top with the Bat Man symbol on it one weekend we spent in a muddy field at Lincomb. They bought me the same top for my next Birthday that I shall now always wear with a memory of Chris. A great man, a mountain of a man and one of the greatest very few remaining British driveway and garden shed engineers and innovators. You'll be missed, but never forgotten m8 :0)

 

[sae70]

Fed up of trying to drive through, he's decided to drag the bloody thing through ;0)

A lovely picture of a happy man :0)