My friend Elizabeth Bacon, who died at the age of 86, was bone – an expert in eye movement and visual weakness – who spent most of her career in the royal clinic in LeicesterAdministration of children’s eye care team.
She was also a prominent figure in Leicester’s societal activity, including as a member of the Leagan Environmental Group (LEG), who carried a campaign on environmental issues in the city, and with the refugee project for local women, providing a safe place for female asylum seekers and their children.
Elizabeth was born in Leeds To Kony (Ni Dial), housewife, Bernard Bacon, political agent. During World War II, Elizabeth, her mother and sister, Margaret, were evacuated to live with a family near Loch Lumond, which gave her the love of Scotland and its natural scenery, although it is less than that of porridge. When her father was on vacation from the war service, they all followed the hills surrounding Al -Lakh.
Elizabeth went to schools in Beverly, Nutingham and Parton on Trent and Otoxter before the family settled more permanently in Sheffield. After training at the Bradford Royal Dishes as surgery in the fifties, her career began there, and she eventually moved to the Royal Disture of Leicester in 1966.
I met Elizabeth in 1972 in Leaj, where she played an important role in saving Leicester New picnicAnd The old road across the city that was destroyed, and also fought to save a lot of Victorian civil architecture in the city, including the old interface Sun alliance Based on Horfir Street.
She was also a long -term member of the Labor Party, and she was also the CND, where she got a sale to collect the annual book donations, collect donations in her garden and spend time in Greenham Common.
She started her participation in the women’s refugee project, which was supported by local churches, in 2000. Many women who helped them became friends, and were especially happy when their children, with their origins, went to college and successful professions.
When I moved to Leicester, Elizabeth bought a house in the suburbs with a large but clear garden, which I cleared and returned. Her life remained, and a testimony of her love for plants and gardens. After her retirement in 1998, she joined Trust Leesestershire and Rutland Gardens Trust, and she became the director of her events and the arrangement of talks, lectures, visits and short short holidays to the UK.
Elizabeth loved walking, and spent many on Sunday over the years with my husband, David, long -distance walking around Rotland and Leicester. After discovering the remains of Richard III in Leicester in 2012, a picnic was created from his hometown in Forenghai Cast Richard III trained.
She escaped from her nephew, Nick, and his great daughter, Eddie.
