Tributes have been paid to Eve Collishaw, former Lord Mayor of Norwich.
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Back in 2009, Eve Collishaw became the 100th Lord Mayor of Norwich – joining just a handful of the city’s previous lady mayors.
Born Evelyn Jean Collishaw on April 3, 1945, in Norwich, the former city and county councillor died suddenly last month aged 76.
The daughter of respected and well-known pharmacist Edward Roy Collishaw and his wife, Matilda nee Campbell Miller, Miss Collishaw attended Norwich High School for Girls from the age of 11 before undertaking a business training course in London.
Eve Collishaw, pictured at her home in Norwich.
A moving final farewell was bade to Norwich's 100th Lord Mayor, as her funeral cortege passed City Hall.
The hearse carrying the coffin of Eve Collishaw.
24 Apr 2021 at 16:52
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Eve Collishaw is someone you won’t have heard of unless you follow Norwich politics very closely. I first met her on the campaign trail in Norwich North in the 1983 general election. She has stood in every local election in the city more or less every year ever since. In the mid noughties she finally achieved her aim and won seats on Norwich City Council and Norfolk County Council, serving for 7 and 12 years respectively. She even became the 100th Lord Mayor of the City in 2010.
Eve was a dedicated Conservative and without her, at times, the whole Conservative organisation in Norwich South might have collapsed. She gave her time, money and much of her life to the Conservative cause. She died this week at the age of 76.
Elections in Norwich s Sewell ward have been postponed after Eve Collishaw s death.
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The death of a candidate in the Norwich city and Norfolk county council elections has forced the postponement of polls in that ward.
Eve Collishaw, former Lord Mayor of Norwich, had been on the ballot sheet for as the Conservative candidate in Sewell ward in both city and council elections.
But her death this week at the age of 76 means the polls in that ward have been postponed, even though some postal votes have already been returned.
The Norfolk police and crime commissioner (PCC) election in this ward will go ahead as planned.
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