Thanks be to God for all the joy my father brought to both family and friends alike, as witnessed by the other posts here. And also for the love he showed to me, his som Michael.
My own happiest memories of my father are of the all too few times when I was able to share in some of his passions - I love to listen to people share their life stories with me: Railways and aircraft - the railway line that he lived alongside in his latter years, known as the GWR up to 1948 (God's Wonderful Railway to some!). He used to love to cycle as a child to a piece of railway track between the three railway stations that Yeovil then had, and watch the Pannier Tank locomotives (which he called "Matchboxes" from the shape of the water tanks sitting over the boiler) shuttling carriages and goods trucks between the stations. As he grew up, he also took an interest in the local aircraft factory, Westlands, and cycled there, a bit further away, to Yeovilton, so a good cycle ride away. He watched and took an interest in the designs of Teddy Petter, who made the Lysander at that time, and he told me of a rarely seen prototype of that aircraft with a gun turret at the rear which he saw tested.
He was, and is greatly missed.
Michael Windsor:
26/02/2021