Tributes for former Rochford Council chief Derrick Wood (From Echo)
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Tributes for former Rochford Council chief Derrick Wood
12:30pm Thursday 18th March 2010 in
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former council chairman and anti-airport campaigner who has died aged 92.
Derrick Wood, who lived in East End, Paglesham, served on Rochford District Council for more than a decade, from the late Seventies, and was an enthusiastic protector of the countryside.
He was one of the founders of campaign group, the Defenders of Essex, which fought plans for an airport being built at Maplin Sands, in the Thames Estuary, in the Seventies.
Mr Woods died on March 10. A funeral service will be held at St Peter’s Church, Church End, Paglesham, at 11.30am on Wednesday, March 24.
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APR
says...
9:54am Sun 21 Mar 10
Especially when the cutting down of a few trees attracts literally dozens of posts.
Such is life :(
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Chris Black says...
6:00pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Derrick was a larger than life figure who added a lot to the District Council. Whether he agreed with you or not he was always willing to listen and was never nasty. He was there for residents, not under the thumb of the party.
I can remember him speaking in the Mill Hall in 1970 against Foulness Airport and he had the rapt attention of hundreds of people there....