Alan Bristow RIP
Funeral – at St. Nicholas Parish Church (High Street, Cranleigh, GU6 8AS) on Thursday 7th May at 14:30.
Reception following at Bramley Golf Club (Links Road, Bramley, GU5 0AL). Approx 20 mins drive to Bramley Golf Club.
Parking on Cranleigh Showground (Bookhurst Road, Cranleigh, GU6 7DW) signposted ‘Funeral Parking’. With a shuttle bus to transport people to Church and back to Showground. 5 mins journey to Church.
Last bus from Showground approx 14:10.
Suggestion is for car shares as it is also Cranleigh Market Day.
It is family flowers only at the funeral, but that others may make donations to either the RNLI, Surrey Air Ambulance, or St. Heliers Kidney Association.
Reception following at Bramley Golf Club (Links Road, Bramley, GU5 0AL). Approx 20 mins drive to Bramley Golf Club.
Parking on Cranleigh Showground (Bookhurst Road, Cranleigh, GU6 7DW) signposted ‘Funeral Parking’. With a shuttle bus to transport people to Church and back to Showground. 5 mins journey to Church.
Last bus from Showground approx 14:10.
Suggestion is for car shares as it is also Cranleigh Market Day.
It is family flowers only at the funeral, but that others may make donations to either the RNLI, Surrey Air Ambulance, or St. Heliers Kidney Association.
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Linda Bristow
I didn't know that Linda had passed on as well.
I concur with Taff, what a fantastic woman she was. Plenty of laughs and fun. She was married to Charles (Chuck) Bond, one of Bristow's American Pilots for a while and I know she worked for a Radio Station on the South Coast. Aparently her programme was a hoot, I was told.
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I concur with Taff, what a fantastic woman she was. Plenty of laughs and fun. She was married to Charles (Chuck) Bond, one of Bristow's American Pilots for a while and I know she worked for a Radio Station on the South Coast. Aparently her programme was a hoot, I was told.
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I'm not a pilot. Alan was my great uncle. I still revere the stories I hear about him even though I never met him. I still have very fond memories of Jean, Linda and Laurence. I spent a week with my little sister at Blythe house in the early 80's I still remember we were picked up from Baynards in a jet ranger and flown to Redhill, where we were given a guided tour before being flown back. Can't remember the pilots name, but think it may have been Derek somebody,
As I said I didn't know him, but if it hasn't been for him I still would have never been in a helicopter...............happy days
can't believe no-one has mentioned the lighthouse "incident"
As I said I didn't know him, but if it hasn't been for him I still would have never been in a helicopter...............happy days
can't believe no-one has mentioned the lighthouse "incident"
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He was the company
Worked for BHL UK/ABROAD for many years and proud to have done so.
Met the old man socially,he was entertaining,ebulliant,the very person he was seen to be.
The best years of my flying career were spent in his care,a very sad loss to the aviation world:he and Alastair can have some good laughs aloft,along with Tommy Baden,another loyal servant of the company.
Sad times ,happy memories.
Met the old man socially,he was entertaining,ebulliant,the very person he was seen to be.
The best years of my flying career were spent in his care,a very sad loss to the aviation world:he and Alastair can have some good laughs aloft,along with Tommy Baden,another loyal servant of the company.
Sad times ,happy memories.
You reckon they will all wind up in the same place?
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There was a very tall, thin, older engineer that I worked with in Egypt in the early '70s, first name Tom, buggered if I can think of his last name. Introduced me to Orangeboom. Am pretty sure that he told me he was there on the whaling ships.?????
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Alan Bristow
I am sure a good friend of mine called Jim Wasd was with them as well and I think he is still around. I joined Bristow in October 1969 in South Africa and he was the Engineering Manager.