Heartfelt thanks for love shown

TO all those very kind and sincere friends of my sister, Angela Bayley, who sent beautiful letters, cards, flowers, phone messages, etc., and who attended her funeral at St Mary's on July 2, I should like to express her family's heartfelt thank-you.
By The Newsroom
Published 21st Jul 2009, 15:20 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:06 BST

Your support gave great comfort to us, her family.

Through this distressing time, Angela would, I am sure, have been astonished and overwhelmed by the love and esteem shown to her by so many friends, Civic Society members and the wider community.

She loved this town, its environs and especially its people with an enduring passion.

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Thank you to the Gazette for the timely piece on Angela's life and campaigning (July 2).

Might I just say that her birthday was December 18, not the 12th, 1947, and the little baby she so tragically lost in 1976 was named David, not Daniel.

Also, the eight-year struggle, through five Ministers of the Environment, was to stop a Florida consortium sheet-piling and building lots of new dwellings on the west bank.

The Floyd's Corner issue took nowhere near so long, nor was it so costly, to run.

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The East Bank new-build that ousted a few fishermen from landing rights recognised in the Domesday Book, and permitted in law, meant they were permitted to bring their catch onto land declared "derelict" up to the highest water mark.

These criteria exactly fitted the "derelict" wharfage.

The judges accepted that law, but would not comply, because to do so would have affected the whole country.

Later, the Environment Agency agreed with the Civic Society and Angela's claim that to build within a high flood risk area should not have happened here.

The East Bank walkway is collapsing as the torrent of Arun waters undermines the site.

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May I also express our sincere thanks to all the many nurses, doctors and carers at Worthing Hospital, from the district and St Barnabas House hospice for their dedicated, excellent attention to Angela's every need, so she could remain at home.

They made a pain-free quality of life possible to the end, so she died peacefully in her sleep, surrounded by those she loved and who will love her always.

The Civic Society will continue as usual, with the next meeting on Friday, August 7, at 10.30am at The Dairy.

The issue for us will be the abandoning of the Climping Gap to the sea.

This really concerned Angela at the very end of her life.

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It also concerns our new mayor, our MP and the people who live in the area.

Please make your independent voice heard. Write to Arun, West Sussex and Littlehampton Town councils, and particularly our MP, and let us battle to keep this priceless area of land and let the people who live there continue to do so.

Diane Bayley

secretary

Littlehampton Civic Society

Bayford Road

Littlehampton

NOTE: All letters must include a name and address which can be withheld by request.

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