Richard Ashbrook

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.....................Birthday 19.03.1977 ~ Angel Day 18.10.2007





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R I P RICHARD XXX

Richard was my life from the first moment i held him when he was born until the last time i held him in the cemetary, he has taken my heart with him and one day i expect him to give it back to me. i have asked his Gran and Grandad and Auntie Julie to look after him until i am with him again. i love you my darling, sleep tight, you are only ever a heart beat away. all my love forever Mum xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Richard was born on 19th March 1977 at 8pm at Davenham Maternity Hospital; he is my only child, the first grandchild to my now deceased Mum and Dad and nephew to my 2 brothers and 4 sisters.
After a very turbulent first 5 years Richard and I left his father and went to live with my husband for the last 25 years, Geoff.
It was the best move we could have made, Richards father was very violent towards us both and Richard has never had any contact with him since – his father’s choice but Richard has always said that he does not ever want to see him again.

Richard went to the Little School playschool at the age of 3, the highlight of this was when he was a page boy at the playschool adaptation of the royal wedding for the Queens silver jubilee from here he went to Cuddington County Primary School at the age of 5.

Richard loved primary school; he met so many of the friends he still has today there. He was always out playing football or making dens, when he was about 7 one of his friend’s parents asked him if he would like to go on holiday with them and a day later I got a call saying Richard wanted to come home, so off I went to pick him up. He loved staying with his Gran and Granddad but didn’t like being too far from home.
On Sunday afternoons in the summer when Geoff was at work we would go out for drives in the car, it was no use planning on going to a specific place because with my sense of direction we would never get there, Richard called these outings our ‘magical mystery tours’

At primary school he was particularly good at maths and sport, once he went to Weaverham High School at age 11 maths faded into the background while he continued to love sport, including athletics, cross country and playing rugby for the school and Mid Cheshire, one of the highlights of this was playing for Cheshire in France. Widnes Rugby League team wanted to take him on trial but he was injured in a tackle during a match at school which ended his playing.

At the age of 12 he started fishing, he had his own built in chauffeur (me) he would go all over the place and in any weather, rain ice and snow you name it, but it didn’t matter, ‘the fish don’t mind why should I’ was Richards reply, he was still a keen fisherman until this accident and had even been to France for the last 3 years with friends, so good are the size of the fish there.

At the age of 17 he got his first motorcycle, an Aprillia, and he never looked back, he loved his motorcycles especially his Yamaha R6.
In recent years he has been attending track days at all the different race tracks all over the country and even had a separate track motorcycle just for this purpose so he did not have to use his road bike, he has been successfully passed through the different stages from novice to intermediate to expert by experienced instructors who taught him the correct way to ride and road positioning.

When he first started his track days, Hot Trax the company who organised these days would take pictures of the experience but in the last couple of years he bought a video camera which attached to his bike so that he could show us on film his experience while riding.
He decided recently that he would like go around the tracks with the novice riders and film the experience for them so that they would have something to look back on; he was in the process of arranging this with the organizers.

He was also in the process of becoming a motorcycle instructor, something he has dreamed of doing for several years, he was in training for this with BCM Motorcycle Training in Winnington and would have been passed out as a qualified instructor on 21st October, 3 days after this tragedy happened.

On leaving school he started work at a fishing tackle shop in Winsford, he really loved this job and for about 18months was really happy, unfortunately the business was not a success and the shop closed, Richard then went to work at Armitage Shanks in Mobberley and stayed for approximately 2 years but the traveling and time stuck in traffic took it’s toll so that when a vacancy came at Nestle in Cuddington (formally Ski) he applied and was accepted. This is where he still worked up to that fateful day, however the factory is closing and all the staff including Richard have been made redundant, although it was a very worrying time Richard did not sit back and expect opportunities to come knocking on his door, he enrolled at a tiling and plastering course in Warrington which was due to start in the middle of November just after he finished at Nestle, his plan was to start his own business and to do the motorcycle training and track days at the weekends.

In his younger days he loved going on holiday to Ibiza with his friends, he loved the life there and at one time said he would like to live there but thankfully he wasn’t serious, (I certainly couldn’t take him his Sunday dinner all that way and heaven forbid if I didn’t make one), and clubbing, whether at Mersey View or the clubs in Wigan, there would always be a gang of friends and Richard would be in the middle.

For the last 3/4 months Richard had been really happy, everything was working out as he planned, he was getting a good final payment from work so he had no financial worries, and he had his future all worked out doing things he really wanted to do.

Richard was a very special person to everybody who knew and loved him; his passing has left a hole in everyone’s life which can never be filled.
I love you so much Richard, you will always be in my heart, Mum xxxx


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I'll be missing you --by Puff Daddy one of the songs at Richards service

Verse one: puff daddy

Seems like yesterday we used to rock the show
I laced the track, you locked the flow
So far from hanging on the block for dough
Notorious, they got to know that
Life ain't always what it seem to be (uh-uh)
Words can't express what you mean to me
Even though you're gone, we still a team
Through your family, I'll fulfil your dream (that's right)
In the future, can't wait to see
If you open up the gates for me
Reminisce some time, the night they took my friend (uh-huh)
Try to black it out, but it plays again
When it's real, feelings hard to conceal
Can’t imagine all the pain I feel
Give anything to hear half your breath (half your breath)
I know you still living your life, after death

Chorus: faith evans

Every step I take, every move I make
Every single day, every time I pray
Ill be missing you
Thinking of the day, when you went away
What a life to take, what a bond to break
Ill be missing you

[puff] I miss you big

Verse two: puff daddy

Its kinda hard with you not around (yeah)
Know you in heaven smiling down (yeah)
Watching us while we pray for you
Every day we pray for you
Till the day we meet again
In my heart is where I'll keep you friend
Memories give me the strength I need (uh-huh) to proceed
Strength I need to believe
My thoughts big I just can't define (cant define)
Wish I could turn back the hands of time
Us in the 6, shop for new clothes and kicks
You and me taking flicks
Making hits, stages they receive you on
I still can't believe you're gone (cant believe you're gone)
Give anything to hear half your breath (half your breath)
I know you still living you're life, after death

Chorus

[faith evans] somebody tell me why

Interlude: faith evans

On that morning
When this life is over
I know
Ill see your face

Outro: 112

Every night I pray, every step I take
Every move I make, every single day
Every night I pray, every step I take
[puff] every day that passes
Every move I make, every single day
[puff] is a day that I get closer
[puff] to seeing you again
Every night I pray, every step I take
[puff] we miss you big... and we won’t stop
Every move I make, every single day
[puff] cause we can't stop... that's right
Every night I pray, every step I take
Every move I make, every single day
[puff] we miss you big

Richard or Ashey as most of you know him, was sadly taken from us on the 18th October 2007 in a bad road accident. Aged 30, Richard lived in Weaverham but came from Cuddington in Cheshire. Richard was the only child of Cindy and Geoff, boyfriend to me and loving dad to Chelsea 5 and Leah 3. He also leaves behind aunties, uncles and cousins who love him so much, Not to mention all his friends to numerous to mention. Richard was taken from us because a car had pulled out on him as he was going to Chester on his motorbike, Yamaha R6. He did not stand a chance. He always said its not the bikes you need to worry about its the people in the cars. How right he was! The day of his funeral he would of been so proud he had a great send off! I was told it was the best that anyone had been too. They had to open the doors so that people outside could hear.
Richard was full of life always happy to help out, he loved fishing going dancing, staying in with a dvd but the love of his life was his bike. He had so much planned for the future, he enrolled in a tiling course so that he could start his own business and was starting to do a bit of bike instructing. But what he really wanted to do again was do a few more track days, he loved the high that he got on the track it just was not the same on the road.
I still cant believe that your gone. I keep thinking it's all a bad dream and that i will wake up. But that never happens. I love you always xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx