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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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