It is with great sadness that I report the death of Harold
Taylor, founder partner of electrical contractors Darke & Taylor. Harold’s
family want a quiet send off so I just want to recognise his passing as a
wonderful man and a true inspiration. To give a small insight into Harold’s character we need to
step back in time to Great Britain in the 1940’s. Harold was doing his
apprenticeship and had been told to get a pair of pipe-grips. So on his day off
he gets on a bus to Newbury to get a set of the aforementioned. Half-way during the
journey the bus was strafed by a passing Messerschmitt and luckily nobody was
injured. Showing typical British upper lip all the passengers quietly file off
and continue to walk on to Newbury. Harold bought his pipe-grips and quietly
returned home. Later on during the war years Harold was in the navy and his
ship successfully brought to the surface and captured a German submarine, along
with one of the first Enigma machines to be brought back to Bletchley Park. Harold was a kind and gentle man, I was and still am very
grateful to have known him, he really was one of the “giants that walk amongst
us”. Rest in peace Harold. |
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