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.

So who's up for organising a missing man formation with 5 machines. :ok:

forget. One time Bristow - and loved every minute.

Daily Telegraph Obituary.

Alan Bristow - Telegraph

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.

TC

Missing man formation?
 

"So who's up for organising a missing man formation with 5 machines. http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif"

Good idea. Five Whirlwinds maybe?:eek: Or 212's....

Both Lynda and Jean died in 2006. Laurence is the only one left.

Sorry to hear about Linda, her programme was on Southern Counties Radio. I was with Chuck at Duri, I think he was born in England and he certainly flew in Vietnam.

Condolences to the Bristow Family, Alan Bristow a great pioneer indeed.
He has made his mark in the sands of time.

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"

Probably Derek Jones.

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.

Alan Green will be glad to see him again too.

You reckon they will all wind up in the same place?:uhoh:

Either up or down it will definitely have a well stocked bar!;)

How many of the original "Air Whaling" bunch are still about?

I think Jack Woolley may be the only Air Whaling man still alive. Am I wrong?

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.?????


carholme

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.

mtoro,
I think you mean Jim (Sharkey) Ward, I also think that Ken Bradley may have been in Air Whaling.
Carholme, are you thinking of Tom Gallop?

Oldlae
 

Thats the one though I never called him Sharkey. There was also a greenie from Air Whaling who was a chief engineer but his name escapes me.