I can still remember the day Barry was born as if it were yesterday. I was staying with my Auntie Annie and Uncle Albert at 57,Jasper Avenue in Deneside,Seaham.Mam had been taken into hospital early for bed-rest.Richard,Ena and Brian were staying at Aunty Margaret and Uncle Jack's in their flat in Sunderland.
Vera
26th February 2010
Thank you for setting up this memorial to Barry Shenton.
We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.
26th February 2010
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.
Extract from a poem by Henry Scott Holland