Popular Chesham patron mourned

Mr Comaskey was also one of the founding fathers of the Chesham Museum, donating the stables behind his pub as its first home and paving the way for it to move its larger new home in Market Square.
He held several auctions in his pub to raise money for the museum and donated several artefacts, including a wooden malt shovel.
Mora Walker, president of the museum, said: "Shay was absolutely crucial to the formation of Chesham Museum. Once he asked me 'Why don't you have a museum?' I replied that we had the artefacts but needed premises.
"He looked towards a tumbledown building behind the pub and asked 'What about that old stable building there?'"
"Having that made all the difference and we will always be grateful to Shay because so much help to get the place up to standard came from the regulars at the pub. He was a lovely, charming Irishman and we will all miss him very much."
Museum vice-chairman, Councillor Chris Spruytenburg said: "It was my privilege to have known such a warm-hearted and generous man in the ward I serve. He thought the world of his community and they of him.
"He used to hold auctions for Atlas House Christmas parties, the Ambulance Service, the Fire Service and Berkhamstead Hospice.
"When the trustees formed he offered his premises for meetings at no charge for which we will always be very grateful."
Aside from his philanthropic side, father-of-one Mr Comaskey, whose son Oliver will take on the family business, certainly knew how to run a good pub working in a number of pubs and up from bar manager before taking up the post of landlord at The Griffin, which he later turned into The Gamekeepers Lodge.
The pub won two Chiltern District Council (CDC) Community Pub Award's and was the first pub to be given the honour.
Pat Miller, pub manageress, said: "He was a gentleman in every sense of the word and no-one I have spoken to has ever had a bad word to say about him.
"If there was anything going on in the community then Shay would want to get involved and help out. That was the kind of man he was.
"I have worked with him for 10 years and I have not just lost a great boss but also a loyal and valued friend. We have our ups and downs here at the moment since we heard the news of his passing.
"But we have to keep going and make sure the pub keeps going because that is what he would have wanted. He was a truly wonderful man and we will all miss him terribly."