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Comment on My Dad: Mick Platts (1959-2008) by anthony platts

anthony platts — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:44:54 +0000

hi richard, I am your dads uncle tony, roy,s youngest brother I have just read your blog and i,m sat here in tears.I only remember mick as a youngster but would love to have known him as you did. all the best for the future…. tony

Comment on Cutest kid by Nancy Lutz

Nancy Lutz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:47:54 +0000

ROFLMAO….teach your kid how to use condiments….priceless! Thanks for the laugh.

Comment on My Dad: Mick Platts (1959-2008) by Mike Platts

Mike Platts — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:16:17 +0000

Hi Richard –

I came across your site after googling “Mick Platts” – my dad’s name, too. I didn’t expect to find any reference to him, as his glory days were well before the advent of the internet. It was nice, though, to find another son’s tribute to his father. My Dad wasn’t a runner or an athlete, but he did have a way with paper mache – I’ve still got the photos from the 1997 Silver Jubilee fancy dress to prove it!

My Dad – my Mick – died on New Year’s Eve 2007. After reading your posts, I don’t think that I was ever lucky enough to enjoy the kind of relationship with him that you had with your dad, but I’m glad that at that end, we did become friends. Good friends, I’m glad to say.

I now live in Dubai, and have done for the last twelve years – I’m originally from Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, where my Dad was born and raised. Not too far from Barnsley, so you never know, eh?

Anyway, I hope you get to see this, and I hope that you’re happier now than you have been. I know how hard it is, but I also know that it does get better.

Best regards from a fellow Platts (and the son of another Mick),

Mike Platts.

Comment on Animoto.com by Aunt Dolly

Aunt Dolly — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:34:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing the website! I enjoyed watching Noras !st year in a glimps……..I was thrilled to hear there will be chapter 2

Comment on Dad on the Train to Köln by Lyn

Lyn — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:16:27 +0000

It was lovely to see so many attend the memorial service on Wednesday, especially your dad’s friends from Ardsley, Broadway and Uni. This picture was passed around by Howard and made everyone smile. He looks about 14 but must have been 20. What an advertisement for Baileys!!

Comment on My Dad: Mick Platts (1959-2008) by Uncle Dave

Uncle Dave — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:11:57 +0000

Thankyou Richard, I will be reading some of your words along with my own rememberances at the Memorial service in November. Mick was a great man,a loving son and a much loved brother to me and my sister and it is still hard to believe he is gone, but he will never be far from our thoughts. All my love to everyone

Comment on My Dad: Mick Platts (1959-2008) by Sue Harris

Sue Harris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:20:46 +0000

Dear Richard
I’m so sorry I have not contacted your family yet -not known how or what to write. I was in the same class as Mick from age 6 to 18. We went to Sunday School and Youth Club together. Our younger sisters were good friends. My first clear memory of him is when the teacher asked us all to gather round and look at ‘Michael’s grass’! His was shaded with different colours -yellows and browns whilst the rest of us were still doing strips of bue sky and green grass. He was a wonderful artist. We kept in contact through uni especially when he was on placement in Koln and I in Luxembourg. He was quiet as a boy and you and your Mum were the best thing that ever happened for him. We all thrilled at his success with a beautiful family and life in the States, which you’ve poignantly depicted – thank you. I wish I’d known he was ill. I wish I’d comunicated more. I miss him………Love to you all. Sue x

Comment on My Dad: Mick Platts (1959-2008) by Kevin Lomax

Kevin Lomax — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:31:18 +0000

Richard,

What a man he was. I met Mick in the September of 1970 when we both,” shivered” into Broadway Grammar School together and collided in class 1 Webb! Seven years later our paths parted again. I re-bumped into Mick, Lord knows how many years ago when,on a return to Barnsley he just strolled into pub in which we were drinking and, we chatted like we were stil at school. I recall it as a delightful evening spent with a man who was truly engaging company.

It is an outrage that he is gone. It has been my privilege to have ever met him at all

Comment on My Dad: Mick Platts (1959-2008) by Bernhard Boening

Bernhard Boening — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:31:46 +0000

Dear Anne and Family:
Coming back from our holiday I received the sadness information regarding the death of your husband and father Mick.
Mick and me we know us for more than 15 years and I lost a very good colleague, a friend.
I wish you sufficient power during this very hard time. My thoughts are with you.
Bernhard Boening UHDE/Germany, former member of Still-Otto

Comment on My Dad: Mick Platts (1959-2008) by Aunty Lyn

Aunty Lyn — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:57:02 +0000

Thank you Richard, what a wonderful tribute to such a wonderful man. My heart is heavy with grief but reading this has given me much comfort. All my love to everyone xxx