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He also went on to say that he had been dead for some time and most likely from the
moment he collapsed while he was in the back seat.

HE CAN NOT GO YET
The ambulance arrived and more trauma, as because the patient had been declared dead
at the scene of the accident they could not take him away. The Coroner’s vehicle had to be
called to complete the transport back to a mortuary.

How we extricated the old lady, again I cannot remember but the ambulance did take the
old gentleman’s family back to hospital for a check over following this harrowing incident.
With the help of the doctor and by now Police had arrived, we pushed the little broken car
into our driveway and found a blanket from in the house to cover the body, still in the car,
until transport arrived.

At this time and for a year or so, we had been “entertaining” students from France
thorough a company who provided an educational programme for improving English
language.
They were always girl students and they shared accommodation with daughter Helen.
There just happened to be a student with us at this time who experienced more than she
expected.
Eventually the old gentleman was taken away and the wrecked vehicle removed. That was
all we heard except for a very nice letter to us both from the Chief Constable of
Lincolnshire thanking us for our efforts at the scene of the accident. It was a great pity that
the final ending could not have been better.

CHAPTER 30

“OUR”…TROUT BY SCHUBERT!

The date is summer 1980, the place New Bolingbroke, a small historical village located
exactly 10 miles north of the Port of Boston.
There was an important event to celebrate!

THE SOUTH LINDSEY ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP
Our numerous local Churches and Chapels had all been suffering dwindling congregations
for several years and in 1977 we had been formed into the “South Lindsey Ecumenical
Partnership”.
At its inception, Frank Burn from Anton’s Gowt and I had been appointed joint Chairmen.
Frank was a prominent local Methodist and I at that time was the Anglican Representative
on the Lincoln Diocese Council of Churches for Ecumenical Partnership. (Now called
“Churches Together”).
The whole idea was to share the available facilities that both Methodist and Anglican
congregations used. Not only did this include the Churches and Chapels, but the priests

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