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TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL GOAKES GOES WELL

On Saturday 16 October the Goakes family and friends near March, Cambridgeshire organised a special day in their yard. It was to celebrate the life and times of Michael Goakes, husband, father, builder, friend to so many and of course former Road Roller Association chairman. Peter Love went along to record the event.

In fact this was the RRA’s annual weekend away, so to speak, which obviously could not take place in March earlier in the year over the Covid situation.

The Goakes family went out their way to make the event, dedicated

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