Richard Ashbrook

PLEASE READ .......18th November 2009
♥♥♥♥I am having awful problems getting onto our angels pages to light candles etc. I have
reported this to BT and GTS and hope it's resolved soon
So please accept my apologies if I don't get to light your angels candles but I carry you all in my
heart ♥♥♥♥♥


I would like to say thankyou so much to all my friends for all the lovely pictures, candles and
tributes you leave for myself and Richard, sending lots of love to you and your angels xxxxxxx



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♥ღ♥ I would like to say thankyou to everyone for your candles, verses and pictures on
Richard's page, I cannot thank you all enough for the love and support you all show us both
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All my love to you all and your angels
Cindy xxxxxxxx

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 too
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 planed fo 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
instucting. 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

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
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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, Richard’s 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 chauffer (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 Richard’s 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 organisers.


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 travelling 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


THANKYOU
I would like to thank everybody for their pictures, candles and beautiful messages for Richard's
birthday on 19th, i would also like to say a heartfelt thankyou for all the love & support you have
given at this really heartbreaking time, if there is ever anything i can do for you i will always be
here, Thank you, all my love Cindy xxxxxxx


Thankyou to all my GTS friends
I would like to say a really big thank you to all my friends on GTS who have left messages, pictures
and candles on Richard's page yesterday for myself and Richard, it was a really hard day and all
your support and love has meant so much.
All my love Cindy xxxxx


12th August 2008
Thank you to everyone who has added pictures, verses and candles onto Richard's page, your love,
support and kindness means so much to me.
Take care my friends
All my love
Cindy xxxxxx


10th October 2008
I am so sorry if i have not been able to light your angels candle, so far it has taken me about 4
hours and i'm not even quarter way though, you are all in my thoughts, love always Cindy xxxxx