Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Donald Long

It is with sadness that I have to report the death of Don Long. Don was the author of several history books about Ramsgate that I publish, his help and advice on matters of local history was invaluable.

Don was also churchwarden of Holy Trinity Church Ramsgate, long serving school governor and for a long time a Ramsgate town councillor.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 27, 2008 6:24 pm

    I think its sad that nobody has yet commented on this. I'm sure that everyone would like to join me in passing on my condolences to Donald's family at this sad time; and in remembering him for all his valuable work over many years to the local community.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 27, 2008 8:30 pm

    Very sad, we have list so many people from the Local History world in the past couple of year - David Collyer, Roy Humphreys, Ivan Green.....

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  3. AnonymousAugust 27, 2008 8:30 pm

    Very sad, we have list so many people from the Local History world in the past couple of year - David Collyer, Roy Humphreys, Ivan Green.....

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  4. Michael ChildAugust 28, 2008 12:29 pm

    Sad yes but mercifully quick from Don’s point of view, he was in the shop very recently and it is not very long ago that we both behaved quite badly at someone’s party.

    Fortunately we conspired to get a large part of his writings and local history collection into print, so local people will always have something to remember him by.

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