LoginObituary: Gordon Beresford
A very special man, Gordon Beresford will be much missed by all who knew him
Posted 15 November 2022 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National
UPDATES: Gordon Beresford's remarkable life is remembered through his wartime childhood, distinguished Trading Standards career and enduring contribution to professional standards and education.
Gordon Beresford was born in Chesterfield on 8 June 1931. At the outbreak of war in 1939 there wasn’t an air raid shelter at Gordon’s Primary School and so all the pupils transferred to a ‘special school’ on the outskirts of Chesterfield. Whenever the sirens sounded, they all had to go into a tree-lined vale adjoining the school grounds and into a makeshift shelter.
In 1942 Gordon was thr...
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