Bar Woodall
1930 – 2009

It’s a truly beautiful Lakeland day here in West Cumbria and very shortly we’re off to a funeral – that of Richard Barnes Woodall – known to many people  simply as ‘Bar’.

He was a gentle, courteous, quietly spoken man with a pawky sense of humour and a mind like a steel trap who ran one of the most successful businesses in the North of England.

He was a Trustee of the Centre right from the very beginning when it wasn’t a remotely fashionable or even sensible thing to be and until very recently he was still taking an active part in the Centre’s Committee Meetings.

I never met anyone who didn’t like him and respect him and today the world is a slightly poorer place for his passing.

Hail and farewell, Bar …