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Gordon

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Shirley Williams Dies
« on: April 12, 2021, 03:38:12 PM »
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bluehillside Retd.

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Re: Shirley Williams Dies
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2021, 04:11:05 PM »
Such sad news.

A brief story about SW: she lived not far from me, and while ago went to buy a bike at the shop my friend works at. His son (who had no idea who she was) was working there that day, so he looked after her. Shortly after that she took the trouble to write to the shop owner with letter of praise and thanks for the excellent service she'd had.

It's the small things that tell you a lot about a person's character sometimes I think.

She'll be missed.     
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Re: Shirley Williams Dies
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2021, 04:26:47 PM »
Met her a couple of times, she was inspirational and entrancing. I met her about 3 years apart and despite that she remembered my name and what we had talked about.
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Re: Shirley Williams Dies
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2021, 05:24:24 PM »
She was a good one.
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Re: Shirley Williams Dies
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2021, 10:26:18 PM »
One of the Limehouse Pinks, as some wag christened the for founders of the SDP, who planned it at Owen's pad in Limehouse. Unfortunately, the joke fell flat, because not many people remembered 'The Limehouse Blues'.
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Re: Shirley Williams Dies
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2021, 07:01:51 AM »
David Steel was on the news last night talking about Shirley Williams. I was shocked, though I shouldn't have been, to see him so white haired, I still think of him as he was when he, Shirley williams and David Owen founded the Social Democrats.

She really was something, the mould was broken when Shirley was made.
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