Derek Pearson

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DEREK PEARSON

One of the appealing features of a village like Audlem is the characters who live here. With the recent death of Derek Pearson, aged 88, we have lost one of those characters. People may not have known his name, but they will remember him by his long grey hair, his pointed grey beard, his bottle-bottom glasses and his Geordie accent. .

Derek leaves a son, Andrew, a grand-daughter Medb, and a host of friends in the village.

Follow this link to an appreciation of Derek's life.

His ashes will be scattered on his favourite canal, after which a few glasses will be raised in his honour.

As they say on Tyneside "farewell canny lad".

Dave Martin