KENNY SURTEES

[inoffthepost]

After a long illness sadly kenny past away this morning.RIP kenny.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

A name known to all of us of a certain age. RIP

 

[BlindBoyGrunt]

I was brought up on the same street as him in Berwick Hills. Big Beatles fan and letter writer to the Gazette.

 

[the_dormouse]

RIP. Loved his stuff in the Gazette

 

[Redwurzel]

He kept the Gazette going.

Vic Wearmouth was one of his rivals in the Sports Gazette.

 

[Cogeur_le_Conq]

BJ McQuade was another

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

those were the days when Boro fans knew the game and expressed their viewpoint with such a vocabulary and choice of words that would put a knight, lord or duchess to shame.

RiP Kenny and sincere condolences to his family and close friends.

a little less ego and a lot more soul.

 

[rkangel]

RIP, along with Geoffrey Bulmer a regular contributor to my childhood view of the world.

 

[Erimus11]

I was brought up on the same street as him in Berwick Hills. Big Beatles fan and letter writer to the Gazette.

My future wife and family lived a few doors away from The Surtees family home

 

[Nobby_Barnes]

There were no message boards in those days for people to say what they thought about the Boro. Just those letters pages in the Gazette and Sports Gazette....

Kenny Surtees and BJ McQuade were the top dogs of that era always a good read, RIP Kenny....

 

[Redwurzel]

Working Class heroes, born in a terrace house in the Boro, lived on a council estate, but were the Wordsworths of Teesside football.

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Is this the same Kenny Surtees who owned the Card Shop in Normanby?

 

[sambaDTR]

As a wordsmith (!) , Surtees in French is “On Tees”!

 

[Beverleyred]

RIP Kenny, a writer among writers.

 

[Uhtred]

Is this the same Kenny Surtees who owned the Card Shop in Normanby?

Yeah, Kenny the card.Had time for everyone, local legend. RIP Kenny.

 

[Uhtred]

Plenty of flowers ,placed on the front of the shop.