David Richards
David moved to Blewbury in 1975, having grown up in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, where his parents owned and ran a Boarding House for seaside holidaymakers. In the 1950s they all arrived by train. Aged 12 to 15, David’s Saturday job was to take his parents’ guests’ cases to and from the station on a pram wheel trolley. He used to keep his trolley away from the main station entrance to avoid the taxi drivers seeing him, and as far as he was concerned he was the only one who did this job. A statue commemorating generations of Bridlington Barrow Boys and Girls was erected at Bridlington station in the summer of 2024 and at the end of April 2025 we travelled by train to Bridlington for David to have a photo taken beside his statue. He may not have been the only Bridlington Barrow Boy but he may have been the first.