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Nicholas ?Nick? Robert Barrington died on July 7, 2013 after a little less than a year of illness, aged 78. He has lived in France the past 15 years but is perhaps best known as a former landlord of the Oak House in Axbridge when it was turned into a communications centre when many town mums died in a Swiss air crash in 1973.
He was also hugely respected for his twin passions of caving and photography. A website* set up in honour to Nick says: ?In the early 1950s Nick started on the definitive guide to Mendip caves, a book which with the help of his fellow caver and geologist Dr Willie Stanton, grew and continued to be updated until the late 1970s.
A World of Caves won the inaugural prize for underground film making in 1977 at the International Caving film conference.?
Nick sold The Oak House Hotel in 1982 and become a news cameraman for a time before meeting his second wife, Patricia, and moving to France.
Nick is survived by his wife Patricia, his children Piers, Miles and Laure, and his brother Patrick.
* Anyone got details?
He was also hugely respected for his twin passions of caving and photography. A website* set up in honour to Nick says: ?In the early 1950s Nick started on the definitive guide to Mendip caves, a book which with the help of his fellow caver and geologist Dr Willie Stanton, grew and continued to be updated until the late 1970s.
A World of Caves won the inaugural prize for underground film making in 1977 at the International Caving film conference.?
Nick sold The Oak House Hotel in 1982 and become a news cameraman for a time before meeting his second wife, Patricia, and moving to France.
Nick is survived by his wife Patricia, his children Piers, Miles and Laure, and his brother Patrick.
* Anyone got details?
