I, along with a few other members of the Society, have today received the sad news that Philip Hancock ("PDH"), creator of the legendary pioneering Craig & Mertonford Railway and direct inspiration to countless NG modellers, passed away peacefully in Edinburgh on 28 June.
I think it only right that as many people as possible who either knew or knew of Philip, should be informed. I've also posted this notice on the NGRM-Online Forum.
Mick
Thanks Mick. It is sad news. His article in Railway Modeller (sometime in 1969 I think) and one of the first ever proper magazines I bought got me interested in 009.
I was looking for an online bibliography of him to check dates but could not find one. I think it would be good to keep his legacy alive, for example here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_transport_modellers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_transport_modellers)
He is mentioned but has no page of his own. Sadly apart from checking my copy of his "Narrow Gauge Adventure" and looking back through the back issues of Railway Modeller, there is not much I could add to it.
Quote from: GraemeD on July 01, 2011, 08:43
I was looking for an online bibliography of him to check dates but could not find one. I think it would be good to keep his legacy alive, for example here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_transport_modellers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_transport_modellers)
He is mentioned but has no page of his own. Sadly apart from checking my copy of his "Narrow Gauge Adventure" and looking back through the back issues of Railway Modeller, there is not much I could add to it.
Graeme,
I think that the biography written by Graham Watling and published in 009 News last month (June edition) probably covers everything that you are missing in terms of information about PDH
Mick
Thanks for the reminder Mick. I thought I'd lost that issue of the News but I've just found it again.
The announcement in today's Scotsman Newspaper states: -
HANCOCK Philip David [Edinburgh]
Peacefully at Belgrave Lodge Nursing Home on 28 June 2011, former assistant librarian at the University of Edinburgh and renowned railway modeller. Service at Warriston Crematorium Cloister Chapel on Friday, July 8, at 11.30am. No flowers please but a retiral collection for charity will be taken at the end of the service. Alternatively, donations may be made directly to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Preservation Society or the Army Benevolent Fund.
Malcolm