I just want to say many thanks to all the people who've paid tribute to Frank on this page. I printed off the ones which had appeared in time for Frank's funeral, and passed them on to his widow, Helen. Some of them in fact were read out during the service. I'll print the rest off, plus any more which are posted, and pass them on to her also.

Helen was very moved by the tributes, and by the fact that so many people remembered Frank, to say nothing of the huge number of people who turned out for the funeral. I can't help thinking it was just as well it was held over Whitby week, otherwise we might have had to hire Liverpool Cathedral!

I'd also like to thank all the people who held their own celebration in the Elsinore at Whitby. Here's hoping you had a damned good sing, because that is exactly what he would have wanted. In fact, those of us who used to sing it with Frank in the old days, made a point of testing the rafters of West Kirby Methodist Church almost to breaking point with Down in the Valley to pray.

I don't know whether anyone in the Elsinore thought of that one, but what a marvellous coincidence it would have been if both groups had happened to be singing it simultaneously.