In reply to 65:
Sad news about Tony, a lovely guy with a relentless enthusiasm.
I met Tony in the late 80's while climbing around the Lakes and often trying to find somewhere to doss in Ambleside at weekends. If we bumped into Tony at the Golden Rule he often let us sleep on his floor.
Me and a friend were involved in an accident at Pembroke and Tony wanted to write an article about it for the Readers Digest. I remember sat in his lounge while he tried to extract the story from us, his best plan was running to the Golden Rule to buy us pints, after a few trip he got the story he was after. It ended up with the story being recreated in the first series of BBC 999 a few years later.
A few years since I last bumped into him, but he was still as keen and enthusiastic about the outdoors and what I'd been up to.
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