RIP Terry Baldwin

I’ve received the sad news that former Aintree Village Parish Councillor Terry Baldwin has passed on.

I recall sharing a great community campaign with Terry as we and indeed many others, I might add, tried to save Aintree Library from closure. We lost, but Terry was a great public speaker and quite a character too. Here he is in full flow at an outdoor protest meeting about the then proposed closure of Aintree Library -

I also recall that he, like me, had a trade union activist past and it was probably one reason why we got along well. Terry was Chairman of Aintree Village Parish Council when a new GP surgery was opened. Here’s Terry at that event in 2006 -

 

Away from politics and community campaigning Terry was involved, at high level, with St. John Ambulance and I recall seeing him standing proudly in his uniform at civic events at Maghull Town Hall where St. John Ambulance volunteers practised their skills. Indeed, I think it was Terry who presented me, in my year as Mayor of Maghull, with a model of a St. John Ambulance vehicle which still sits in a display cabinet in the Council Chamber of Maghull Town Hall. It was to celebrate their acquiring a new ambulance, if I remember correctly.

Terry was presented with the Maghull Town Council Civic Award in 2004 and it was very much because of his volunteer St. John Ambulance work.

So goodbye Terry, yours was a life well lived and you were liked and respected by so many people.