LES SMITH 1960 - 2005
LES SMITH 1960 – 2005
Les Smith worked with LASSCO for many years and was noted both for his rudeness and his gourmandising.
He died in 2005 at the age of 45 and a memorial was unveiled at St Michael’s on 22nd March 2006.
Les Smith worked with LASSCO for many years and was noted both for his rudeness and his gourmandising.
He died in 2005 at the age of 45 and a memorial was unveiled at St Michael’s on 22nd March 2006.
Adrian Amos gave the following eulogy:-
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It’s Les’s Birthday today and getting on for a year since he died. And so we all thought that it would be an appropriate day to unveil our little memorial to him, next to our old friend Peter, both long associated with this building, both under the wings of the Archangel Michael himself, to whom this church is dedicated.
I personally would not, this afternoon, be surprised to hear Les’s voice echoing through the building – he’d probably be pointing out in that blunt way of his that I “shouldn’t get too cocky – there’s lots of room for more under St. Michael’s wings.”
He was so much part of our lives and of this building that his presence still could, when you think about it, be just around the corner.
I find it a bit uncanny.
Well as he became part of our lives so shall we make him with this tablet part of this building – we’ve actually attached him to the masonry itself.
And by virtue of the preservation afforded by Parliamentary Statute Les has now, in a manner of speaking, become part of its fabric – for ever – protected by the full weight of the law.
And let’s stay with this image…imagine a spring morning in the year 2506. A postgraduate student of the Antique is puzzling over this time-worn and virtually illegible epitaph clutching her Latin dictionary in her hand…
ABITE… PRANDEO*
(Cupping her hand to her ear)
Is that an impatient snort from within?
(Sniffing)
Is that the heavenly smell of sausage, bacon, egg, black pudding, beans and a fried slice (in beef dripping of course)?
(Again cupping her hand to her ear)
What’s that voice from the Sepulchre?
(A sharp retort…)
BOOGGER OFF…I’M HAVING ME BREAKFAST*
May the souls of our dear departed rest in eternal peace.
Amen
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It’s Les’s Birthday today and getting on for a year since he died. And so we all thought that it would be an appropriate day to unveil our little memorial to him, next to our old friend Peter, both long associated with this building, both under the wings of the Archangel Michael himself, to whom this church is dedicated.
I personally would not, this afternoon, be surprised to hear Les’s voice echoing through the building – he’d probably be pointing out in that blunt way of his that I “shouldn’t get too cocky – there’s lots of room for more under St. Michael’s wings.”
He was so much part of our lives and of this building that his presence still could, when you think about it, be just around the corner.
I find it a bit uncanny.
Well as he became part of our lives so shall we make him with this tablet part of this building – we’ve actually attached him to the masonry itself.
And by virtue of the preservation afforded by Parliamentary Statute Les has now, in a manner of speaking, become part of its fabric – for ever – protected by the full weight of the law.
And let’s stay with this image…imagine a spring morning in the year 2506. A postgraduate student of the Antique is puzzling over this time-worn and virtually illegible epitaph clutching her Latin dictionary in her hand…
ABITE… PRANDEO*
(Cupping her hand to her ear)
Is that an impatient snort from within?
(Sniffing)
Is that the heavenly smell of sausage, bacon, egg, black pudding, beans and a fried slice (in beef dripping of course)?
(Again cupping her hand to her ear)
What’s that voice from the Sepulchre?
(A sharp retort…)
BOOGGER OFF…I’M HAVING ME BREAKFAST*
May the souls of our dear departed rest in eternal peace.
Amen
Design and Letter cutting by Lois Anderson
Gold and Colour on Slate
Miss Anderson will be happy to undertake similar commissions
Gold and Colour on Slate
Miss Anderson will be happy to undertake similar commissions
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