tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post5638930558355892651..comments2024-03-18T08:20:19.461+00:00Comments on Transpontine: Pete PopeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-7855914572903638922012-06-16T10:16:04.436+00:002012-06-16T10:16:04.436+00:00Rather excellent turn out. Capably shepherded cycl...Rather excellent turn out. Capably shepherded cycle run causing some minor disruption to traffic. So many attendees they had to send people upstairs to fill the balcony and there was still standing room only...<br />Seemed just about everyone was there, people had come from all over southern england.<br />Good bit of 'Stones music and Charles Hayworth played live. Good address from some bloke, plenty of jokes and reminiscences. Back to the pub and the first time Pete has bought lots of people a drink!!!<br /><br />A really good show.<br /><br />P.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07320867184263871023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-28500678362122438162012-06-03T19:43:20.915+00:002012-06-03T19:43:20.915+00:00My mentor / tormentor. My love. Whether he knew it...My mentor / tormentor. My love. Whether he knew it or not (and I think he did), I have carried him with me through my life. I met Pete when I was 18 and he was 30. I went for lunch to the flat above Charlie's West African Delicatessen in Kilburn and stayed for three years. We had highs so high and lows so low I have never experienced such since. He taught me more than anyone and I am so sad that I am thousands of miles away and cannot come to say goodbye. Pete Pope - mad, bad and dangerous to know. You'd say it with a smile and a pint in your hand, one eyebrow raised and a slight twitch at the corner of your mouth... challenging for contradiction. There was none. You were the maddest, baddest and most dangerous man for me and I have loved you for it ever since. Go well. Business is no longer unfinished.Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-9412887672963548702012-05-30T02:03:39.385+00:002012-05-30T02:03:39.385+00:00Pete was a character from my childhood. One colour...Pete was a character from my childhood. One colourful personality that sticks in the memory and reminds me of great times. Pete helped me get involved in drama when I felt too shy to approach on my own. I remember him having a very kind face and an earring! His passing is sad news indeed. : (Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-30355968174148588792012-05-19T12:40:28.232+00:002012-05-19T12:40:28.232+00:00Very, very sad, Does anyone have details on the fu...Very, very sad, Does anyone have details on the funeral?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17142793989742296001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-4804110479865688922012-05-17T14:42:59.145+00:002012-05-17T14:42:59.145+00:00Worked on a bunch of stuff with Pete - perhaps mos...Worked on a bunch of stuff with Pete - perhaps most notably an (until that point) unperformed Stephen Burkoff play - Greek.<br />His joy in the sheer verve of the language: loud rude pointed and not afraid to rage was fabulous - Just one aspect. I shall miss him<br /><br />reid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-27525479339435769082012-05-15T10:48:04.028+00:002012-05-15T10:48:04.028+00:00I am incredibly sad to hear this. I'd lost tou...I am incredibly sad to hear this. I'd lost touch with Pete over the last couple of years. I knew he was ill, but hadn't made the effort to get in touch, and now feel terrible. <br /><br />The last time I saw him was late summertime, the summer before last I think. We hung out for a while on the community garden on the Pepys, and I see him there now squinting against the sun, mug of tea in one hand, rollie in the other and a mischievous laugh. <br /><br />When I was working as a researcher in Deptford, Pete was one of the very first people I interviewed. He was incredibly generous to me then, and remained so over the following several years. <br /><br />He contributing a huge amount to the area: through the Albany, Deptford Community Forum and the Deptford Discovery Team, Pepys Community Forum, Deptford TV, Lewisham 77 and so many other local initiatives. <br /><br />It's great that he is still commemorated on the wall of Aragon (originally, he told me, intended to be called the Yucatan Wall of the Ancestors - is that right?).Ben Gidleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-69398016475825890112012-05-14T18:40:30.543+00:002012-05-14T18:40:30.543+00:00Very sad news.Very sad news.Jason Corteznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-41748262274401852932012-05-14T11:51:05.899+00:002012-05-14T11:51:05.899+00:00I was involved in a show called 'Dotty Quavers...I was involved in a show called 'Dotty Quavers's Last Symphony' with Michelle Petite-Jean and Angie Bates,as narrator and page-turner.When we neede an actor I suggested Pete who came in ,learnt his lines,and learnt some of mine as well,in about four hours!Stunnin'<br />R.I.P.'the Grabber Man'Lurcanoreply@blogger.com