Amazing memory man Bob...

OUR READERS shared some of their memories this week of columnist Robert Barltrop, whose funeral has just been held… IT IS with regret that I learned Robert had passed away. Frankly, I was very shocked and surprised as I thought that as he had sta... » MORE

Life he filled with many passions...

ROBERT Barltrop… We all knew him as Bob. He was a loving, generous, kind, and understanding man who had filled his life with his passions;- his wife Mary (our mother), sport (he had boxed to a very high level in his younger days without a defeat until... » MORE

Man who was many things to many people

ROBERT – my father, Bob – was many things, to many people. Some knew him best as a school-teacher, some knew him as a socialist and political speaker, as a researcher into family history, a keen enthusiast for Speedway, or as a local historian. Others en... » MORE

Working class man of many talents...

HE was a sportsman, a socialist, a working man, a teacher, artist and writer. The life of my father, Robert Barltrop, is the story of a working-class boy who worked hard to develop his talents, and who committed himself deeply to every activity he took... » MORE

Farewell to our friend Bob

IT was, like the man himself, simple, uncomplicated and classy. More than 100 people said goodbye to Robert Barltrop in a humanist funeral at the City of London Cemetery in Manor Park. In accordance with the clear wishes of Bob as all his friends knew hi... » MORE

Robert Barltrop's funeral details

THE funeral of Recorder columnist Robert Barltrop will take place on Friday May 8 at the City of London Cemetery in Manor Park, at 1pm. Flowers will be sent by his family. Donations can be made in Robert s memory to Newham General Hospital, to whom his... » MORE

Recorder columnist dies in hospital

IT is with great sadness that we have to report that Recorder columnist Robert Barltrop passed away on Sunday evening. Robert, 86, had been writing columns in his own brilliant style for more than 24 years and was a cornerstone of this newspaper, write... » MORE

Lessons in facts of life

BEING tall, as a quite young boy I was often thought to be older than I was. This boy about the neighbourhood, whom I knew only by sight, evidently took me for the same as he, twelvish. I was ten. One November evening in the street, looking in the herba... » MORE

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