David Frankish RIP
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:20 am
I had a letter today telling me the sad news that David Frankish passed away last weekend. David was for a long time the person running Ruby's fan club, and became a great friend of Ruby and her family. He was a mine of information, and when I first spoke with him on the telephone several years ago, he was a great help in compiling a full list of Ruby's recordings. There are a number of very rare cabaret recordings of Ruby singing songs with which she was not normally associated because he was kind enough to let me have some cassettes and reel to reel tape recordings which he had made. The best ones you will find in the library, and we all owe a debt of gratitude to David for making them in the first place and then letting me have them.
I never got a chance to meet up with him, but we used to contact each other by telephone every few months and mostly exchange memories about Ruby, and he had far more of those than I did. He was not a computer user. From time to time he would go into his local library and get someone there to have a look in on this website, particularly if I had mentioned that there was something new to see, but because of ill health over recent years this unfortunately was not easy for him. At the time of the plaque unveiling in Belfast, he told me how he would have loved to have come with us, but he was not a good traveller. He was very keen to hear all about it and watch the video which I had been able to put on DVD for him.
He will be sadly missed, a genuine fan who had marvellous links with Ruby and her life.
I never got a chance to meet up with him, but we used to contact each other by telephone every few months and mostly exchange memories about Ruby, and he had far more of those than I did. He was not a computer user. From time to time he would go into his local library and get someone there to have a look in on this website, particularly if I had mentioned that there was something new to see, but because of ill health over recent years this unfortunately was not easy for him. At the time of the plaque unveiling in Belfast, he told me how he would have loved to have come with us, but he was not a good traveller. He was very keen to hear all about it and watch the video which I had been able to put on DVD for him.
He will be sadly missed, a genuine fan who had marvellous links with Ruby and her life.