Richard Frank Dight (19 Oct 1950 - 31 Aug 2025)

Thank you so much for your kind donations at my dads Wake, totalling £107 that I have now added to this Gift Aid Link. Thomas.

Richard will be sadly missed, but well done to all the family and friends that enabled such a wonderful send off for Richard at Barham and the Rugby Club. I worked with Richard for many years both at his other companies and with PSL/ALS where he worked and helped all around him with his knowledge plus his many stories. Working for us for 22 years until his sudden and untimely departure.

Rip Richard

In loving memory of Richard xx

So sorry for your loss.
I have so many wonderful memories of the 60s and the scooter days where I met Dino and so many good friends.
It’s a time that I will always remember and cherish.
Peter

It was at Kearsney Abbey on a sunny summer’s 60s evening when I first met Dino (as he introduced himself) and it’s a day that’s etched in my memory. Dino rode in through the gates with his mates on their scooters and he invited me to join him on my scooter, so off I rode with him to meet up with other local scooterists on the cliffs behind Dover Castle.
In brief, scooters became my passion and working in print/publishing, that original 60s scooter lifestyle inspired me to start a classic scooter magazine, which I eventually sold to a national publishing company based in Lincolnshire. After purchase, the company invited me to come and work for them on various scooter and motorcycle magazines; this resulted me and my wife, Viv (herself a Dover girl) moving from the ‘Garden of Kent’ to the ‘Vegetable Garden of England’, where we still live today.
SO, I’D JUST LIKE TO SAY ‘THANK-YOU DINO’; THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, I’VE ALWAYS ATTRIBUTED YOUR INFLUENCE WITH SETTING ME ON A LIFELONG PATH TO WHERE I AM TODAY.
Of course, life around Dino wasn’t just about scooters; one fond memory I have was hiring ‘Diesel Johnny’s’ clapped-out Commer van in which Dino, myself and several others used to go to a pop concert in Hyde Park – another memorable day.
In the 70s, Dino turned his hand be becoming a DJ and our motley gang of friends used to follow him around from disco to disco; it didn’t always go well and I remember one night when Dino was doing his set at a venue in Wingham, we were accosted by a gang of local youths who were under the impression we were a gang from Aylesham who had come onto their home turf; it was only after explaining that we were ‘with the DJ’ that we got away without any broken bones.
Over the years, I got to know (and became friends with) the Dight siblings - Dino, Alison and Vernon (RIP) and have happy memories from those times. I can understand the pain and heartbreak they are going through at this moment, along with the rest of Dino’s family. I’ll be the one wearing dark sunglasses at his funeral to hide my tears when Viv and I come down to Kent for the funeral.
Mau

Sorry to hear of the loss of Richard we had many memories over the years down at Blake's🙏