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Oliver John Herbert BRIDGES

1932-2006

His brother Bernard writes:

After leaving Framlingham in 1950 Oliver attended Writtle Agricultural College in Essex after which he built up a Broiler Chicken business in Fakenham and Bawdeswell in Norfolk. In 1975 Oliver left the UK to manage a poultry farm in Harare, Zimbabwe and later moved to South Africa to work for Premier Foods. Here his responsibility was to advise the company on their poultry businesses in neighbouring countries such as Mozambique, Angola and Zambia. Oliver returned to the UK for a short period but retired to Zimbabwe in 1990 where he became increasingly depressed by the deteriorating economic and political situation there. Ill health caused him to return to the UK in 2002 when he went to live near his oldest daughter in Horning, Norfolk.

Oliver had been a keen sailor, racing Flying Fifteens at Lowestoft in Suffolk, played energetic tennis in Harare and enjoyed his Bridge group there. While in Africa he maintained close contact with a number of O.F.s, in particular Chris Seddon (S 43-50),Guy Brooke Smith(S 41-44) and Alan Richardson(S 34-40

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