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Vernon Nash

In Memoriam – Vernon Nash

In Memoriam – Vernon Nash

Three years later, Vernon is a mature student at Birmingham University, doing combined French and Spanish. The anecdotes you're about to read - if you're interested-   I heard many, many times. He relished recounting them. It was in 2014, when this photograph was taken, that Jane and I encouraged him to put all those stories [...]
Past and present come together

Past and present come together

Summer 2014. South England This post was meant to be typed and ready for the 1st of July, on the 3rd anniversary of Vernon’s death. I didn’t manage to finish it, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I do not wish his birthday to pass without publishing it. I hope our friends [...]
Vernon Visits Spain for the first time

Vernon Visits Spain for the first time

Remembering Vernon- On the third birthday after his death, two years ago. Two years have gone by since Vernon’s death and two - three years have passed since we left him with Joe Cocker’s band at the American bases in and around Orleans, in France. During those years, sometimes there wasn’t any work with the [...]
Honouring Vernon’s memory

Honouring Vernon’s memory

On Vernon’s 2nd anniversary. His memory and his stories are and will always be with us. This is one of the first I heard from him, and I am reproducing it as he wrote it, with some edits which aim to improve the flow and rhythm he always rendered to his oral stories. Members of [...]