Remembering Dave Ross, who sadly passed away on Saturday

C&D Consultancy are sad to announce the death on Saturday, 8th July of Dave Ross.

Dave worked with C&D on a number of projects over the last ten years and was a well respected member of our team. I first met Dave at Loxley Dismantling where he was one of my site supervisors and we kept our working relationship and friendship going ever since that day.

Dave worked on many complex projects for ourselves, Apollo GCL, Thorne Demolition, AR Demolition, and many other companies during his career, and enjoyed his retirement years by cruising the worlds oceans with beloved wife Jean, drinking a few beers in his local working men's club or demolishing things on the few weeks a year that he decided to work to earn some money for another cruise!

Dave was extremely proud to have achieved IDE status after working in our industry for over 50 years and he was one of the first "old school" demolition men persuaded to join IDE when the institute opened its doors to a wider range of entry criteria.

Dave was an excellent site manager, a great machine driver, and a true Yorkshireman, never happier than when in his caravan at some demolition site eating his large pan of "Rotherham Stew" cooked by Jean for Dave to reheat most nights when he was away. In fact, the only nights that he didn't eat Jean's stew he would eat a rump steak as he was a lover of "Proper English Grub."

Dave once sat with me in his working men's club drinking a few beers, as you do, and told me of a great cruise that Jean and he had just completed on P&O Oriana where for the 28 nights of the cruise Dave ate a rump steak every night as "I couldn't face the foreign food."

He will be remembered for his friendliness to everyone and his ability to think a job through to get it down in the safest manner.

He will be sadly missed. Funeral details are unconfirmed at the moment, but we will post them when received and Jill and I will celebrate his memory on Saturday night with a few beers and a steak. I just hope that wherever he is now the menu is not just Curry and Chinese food!