Jim Needle

Jericho residents were saddened to hear earlier this year of the death of Jim Needle - a long-time resident of Canal Street. Jim was a gifted graphic artist and cartoonist who for many years worked at the Oxford Mail - and in recent years for many other local publications including New Internationalist. When in 1995 we decided to relaunch the Jericho Echo Jim offered to do the panorama of Jericho streets that appears as our masthead. Reproduction at this size unfortunately gives only an impression of the detailed quality of the original - another testimony to Jim’s great skill and versatility. The self-portrait here is one which his wife Jan says he probably did while trying out a new pen. His many friends attended a packed memorial service at St. Barnabas. Jim was a big man, in every way, and will be greatly missed.