Thank you all for your kind thoughts and memories.

Brian was a wonderfully cultured, intelligent man with wide-ranging interests and knowledge.

As well as folk music, he was a passionate lover of all forms of classical music, with a huge music collection - we were brought up with Beethoven, among many other composers, resounding through the house when he was marking his school books in the evening.

Before coming to Boggle Hole Brian was an English teacher and literature and theatre (especially Shakespeare) were other great loves he and our mother Cathy had; we lived in a house of books (our parents' house still heaves with them) so we were brought up to be avid readers - no telly! Their three children - Dorothy, Peter, and I - are so grateful to them for sharing these cultural interests with us.

Brian also loved nature, walking, and cricket, as well as sloe gin and fine whiskeys! In recent years we went walking together along the cliffs near their house - thank you Bian for teaching a city girl the names of hedgerow flowers and plants.

In 2002 Brian featured in Radio 4's Open Country about Robin Hoods Bay - in this he sings local songs and talks about being an "offcomer" to Bay; I have the recording which I can't upload here but could e-mail to anyone who's interested.

Thank you Brian for everything you gave us and everything you did for us.
Janet