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BATTERSEA PAYS TRIBUTE TO JOHN BARRY
L ast August, CAMRA South West London
members attended the funeral of John Barry.
Only in his early fifties, John had suffered from
anyone who he thought deserved it. I checked the
modern usage of the biblical quote ‘salt of the earth’
and my source said that people who are salt of the
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma for some time and it earth are decent, dependable and unpretentious.
looked for a while that he had beaten it. John was That was John. He is deeply missed by family and
the schoolkeeper at the school where Chris friends.
Cobbold teaches. Chris had recruited him to The Branch will be suitably commemorating John’s
CAMRA many years ago and John helped Chris life and contribution to CAMRA at this year’s
and the late Ted Higgins run a bar at GBBF for Battersea Beer Festival, opening from Wednesday 8
several years. John went on to be Branch to Friday 10 February.. Besides collecting for the
Membership Officer and Staffing Officer for the Battersea Dogs’ and Cats’ Home, a cause that John
Battersea Beer Festival. For recent festivals he strongly supported, the Festival will also be
drove the van and also helped on the door. appealing for donations to a cancer charity in his
Underneath a no-nonsense exterior was a very kind memory.
and generous heart. John never refused help to Tony Hedger
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