Death of Ron Shoesmith

 I was sad to see the article in the Hereford Times this week with the title "'Doyen of history' dies".

Ron Shoesmith was 89, and he had retired to Brittany, where he died.

His career, though, was as an archaeologist - he was the Cathedral archaeologist  for Hereford Cathedral for 14 years.  There's even a gargoyle in his image, on the outer wall of the cathedral nave.  It was put up there in 2009.  Before his work for the Cathedral, he was the director of the City of Hereford Archaeology Unit, so he knew just about everything about archaeology in the city.  He wrote several books, to share this knowledge.

One of the tributes to him in the Hereford Times comes from Mark Haslam, of Herefordshire CAMRA - because he also wrote books about the history of local pubs.