The Chapel of Rest

[Sue]

Norma Waterson. Rest in peace, you were brilliant ❤️

[KidKruger]

Sue Wrote:

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> Norma Waterson. Rest in peace, you were brilliant

> ❤️

Is this Martin?s wife ?

ETA: oh I see that it is. Shame, RIP.

[ontheedge]

The great shall always live on, see the family are in financial difficulty so maybe those who admire them could donate, sad to see amazing & national treasures struggling

[Sue]

ontheedge Wrote:

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> The great shall always live on, see the family are

> in financial difficulty so maybe those who admire

> them could donate, sad to see amazing & national

> treasures struggling

The donation page was started before Norma died. The picture has now been updated to show one of Norma, but the description hasn't been.

Thousands of people from all over the world have donated:

https://ko-fi.com/elizacarthy

[diable rouge]

''Your starter for 10'' - Bamber Gascoigne...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60301687

[malumbu]

Jack Smethurst. Not going to post a link to a tabloid. I feel that he was rather denigrated due to his part in Love Thy Neighbour, it was clumsy comedy, helped propagate some inappropriate language and stereotypes, but always had Smethurst's Character coming off worse. He also played a lovely caring part in an earlier sitcom, For the Love of Ada.

I've attached a link to an interview of Rudolph Walker, now more famous for East Enders, who played the black neighbour, that helps to put things in context.

Smethurst was a nice guy, his politics certainly more palatable than Meatloaf's and my one criticism is that Love Thy Neighbour painted trade unionism in a poor light.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/oct/22/tvandradio.television1

[SpringTime]

Jan Pieńkowski - great children's book author. Died several days ago. Just realised.

[zenoria65]

Anna Karen (Olive from On The Buses) - died in a house fire, terrible.....

[Waseley]

Makes me feel so old when all the cast in a sitcom have gone. Are you Being Served and now On the Buses. Ian Lavender will hopefully live to a 100.

[malumbu]

In the last few days Nicky Tesco lead singer of the Members, saw them many moons ago supported by Laura Logic - I've posted a track on the weekend thread https://louderthanwar.com/nicky-tesco-the-members-rip/

Children's author Shirley Hughes at 94 - not a bad age https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/02/shirley-hughes-childrens-author-and-illustrator-dies-aged-94 I loved her slightly different book, Enchantment in the Garden

And as Cat pointed out Shane Warne at only 52 https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/cricket/shane-warne-dead-b986120.html I saw him in a one day match in Wellington, and the Kiwis loved him (no they didn't...)

[ctovey]

Also Rodney Marsh (Aussie wicket keeper - not English footballer!)passed today, also heart attack

[zenoria65]

Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron)....

[IlonaM]

William Hurt

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/13/oscar-winning-actor-william-hurt-dies-aged-71

[Mystic Mog]

Tom Parker, so sad.

[DulwichFox]

June Brown (Dot Cotton Eastenders) Has passed away at 95

Very Sad..

DulwichFox

[jazzer]

Obituary: June Brown

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43476603

[SpringTime]

jazzer Wrote:

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> Obituary: June Brown

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-4347

> 6603

I bet her son is behind it.

[jazzer]

Eric Chappell, the creator of hit TV sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost, has died aged 88

[Castleton]

Dennis Waterman, from Minder. 74

[malumbu]

quite sad at the loss of Cathal Coughlan, formally of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more recent projects. I caught both in the day, last seeing him at a Southbank concert - a 'musical conversation' between his native country (Ireland) and ours.

https://www.ft.com/content/8b1431bc-1048-11e6-91da-096d89bd2173

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/23/cathal-coughlan-frontman-with-irish-indie-bands-microdisney-and-fatima-mansions-dies-aged-61

[Sephiroth]

Indeed malumbu indeed. All true

And a former resident of east Dulwich to boot

[Spartacus]

I'm curious to see if on the last day of the forum, if there will be an entry for the EDF 🤔

[Sephiroth]

from an Irish magazine in 1994

"Recently, Coughlan has moved back to London, a city to which he once said he would never return. He and his wife live in Dulwich, a curious little enclave sandwiched between the Olde Tory Towne of Dulwich Village (where Thatcher was supposed to domicile after she retired) and Peckham. When Cathal goes running, he slows down while passing through the heart of Dulwich Village to give the locals a good look at his favourite Fatima Mansions t-shirt, the one depicting Michael Portillo and Peter Lilley in flagrante delicto."

[wordsworth]

Ray Liotta

[SpringTime]

Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode