There are just not enough words to describe how devastated we all are in our Finings Wood group and throughout the village, to hear that our wonderful trustee and dear friend Paul Rees Thomas passed away this week whilst fighting a very aggressive cancer found only this summer.
Paul was the founder of our group. The guiding light about everything in Finings Wood, as he has walked in it nearly every day since he moved to Lane End when first married to lovely Pauline Thomas.
He lived and breathed the woods and because of his incredible talent and career as a wood carver, it was a match made in heaven.
His daughter Holly Rachel Haynes and their family have such wonderful memories in the woods and have shared some of their favourite pictures here all taken in Finings Wood.
We send our heartfelt love to all of the family and have lost a true friend and such a kind, gentle man, but will keep his mission alive and will fight to save these woods for the village and for generations to come.— feeling heartbroken with Pauline Thomas and 2 others
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