Ann’s family decided to celebrate her life by retracing her life, visiting the places she used to live, work, study and relax across the UK.  They started on the 18th January by visiting Stanford Hall, where she was a student in 1984.  They scattered some of her ashes on the Memorial site overlooking what was once the college

Ashes being scattered by Ann’s son Phil watched on by Ann’s daughters Sarah and Laura , her granddaughter Eleni, Eleni’s mother  Irene and Ann’s husband Cliff

Ann in 1984, sitting on the outside wall of the Coop College Stanford HallÂ

On the 8th and 9th of February 2025 Cliff, Laura Sarah and Sarah’s family including granddaughter Etna visited Glen House Cragg Vale where Ann moved to in August 1986. Â

Husband Cliff and daughters Sarah and Laura on the steps of Glen House

Ann sitting outside Glen House in 1986 with her morning tea.  Cliff spread some of her ashes near to this spot in 2025

THE CHERRY TREE

When she moved to Robin Hoods Bay Ann planted a Cherry Blossom tree in the front garden.  It was her joy to see the tree bloom every spring.  The family have taken cuttings from the tree and soon Ann’s tree will be blooming in her children’s gardens

CELEBRATION EVENT ROBIN HOODS BAY.

On the 21st March 2025, what would have been Ann’s 72nd birthday the family celebrated her life at her Local

On the 10th of May Many of Ann’s family and friends me up in Hattersley, sharing stories about their sister, aunt, mother and friend.  A cutting of Ann’s Cherry Blossom tree was given to her brother to plant in Hattersley and some of her ashes were spread on her mother’s grave

Some members of her family then visited all the houses she lived in Tameside and also the houses she lived in Monton and Eccles and the TUC centre where she was the Manager.  In the hotel in Eccles family members could look down on the house where they lived with Ann and the garden where Ann used to take baby Laura

On the 19th September 2025 a year after her death, Ann’s family visited Walsall, staying on Persehouse Street and meeting old friends.

Some of the family gathered on the steps of their old house as they had done so around Ann some 30 years ago

Then next month in October Cliff and Laura went back to Gotland where we scattered some of the ashes where she once waded into the Baltic with her family