Rowing Coach Finds Note And Rose Left Behind By A Widow; Honors Her Request

On Thursday, Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School Rowing Club coach, Ian Bousfield, came across something quite unusual as he arrived for practice at Powell’s Pool in Birmingham, England — a note and a rose stuck to the chain link fence.

The note read: “Please, can someone throw this into the lake for me? My late-husband’s ashes are in the lake and I can’t get to the lakeside in my wheelchair anymore [and] gates are locked. Have to drive back up north tonight. Thank you.”