On Friday 14th April (Good Friday) six or seven boats from a Lea Valley boat club came up the Thames from Limehouse and berthed by the lock-keepers' cottages in the Grand Union Canal. On Easter Saturday they invited Brentford Cruising Club to a buffet supper in the Waterside Café-Bar.
A dolphin has taken residence in the junction of Brentford Creek and the River Thames.
On the afternoon of Thursday 13th April, drinkers were evacuated from the Brewery Tap because of a bomb on Johnson's Island. Resident Dilys Matthews said she heard one explosion and believed the police set off another (controlled) explosion to disarm the device.
At 9.10 pm on Saturday 3rd June a film crew started filming around the marina lock gates. Hans Styrnel, ex-temporary assistant lock keeper and webmaster of Brentford Cruising Club, took this picture.
Ian Ridpath writes, "Steve Benbow, a folk singer and guitarist who played regularly at the Brewery Tap, died recently of a heart attack, aged 74. His obituary in The Telegraph mentions his traditional sign-off at the Brewery Tap.
On Tuesday 14th November, ex-Julius-Court-resident, Owen Truelove and his son were found dead beside the wreckage of their glider after it crashed during a gliding championship in remote hill country in New Zealand.
In 2004, Air Commodore Truelove, an engineering officer with the RAF for 33 years, flew a motorised glider 15,500 miles from Cornwall to New Zealand
Bob Hill died on Thursday 10th August. He collapsed, probably from a heart attack, at his flat in Galba Court. He was 77. Bob was the first person to buy a property on Brentford Dock in February 1979. He was, at one time, Editor of Brentford, Chiswick and Isleworth Times. He also worked at the Daily Express, Sketch and the Daily Mail, where he was night news editor and showbiz executive editor.
He will be sorely missed by his two daughters and three grand-daughters.
Geoff Spice of 34 Augustus Close passed away at Hammersmith & Fulham hospital on Saturday morning, 15th July.
A large number of Brentford Dock residents attended the funeral on Friday 28th July. The chapel at Mortlake Crematorium was full.
Dilys Matthews writes: To all who have used the Marina Bar (as was). The bar steward John Daniels, also known as Little John, died of heart failure last week at the age of 52. His funeral will be in Lancaster on Tuesday and a memorial wake wil be held at The Brewery Tap on Wednesday 5th July from 8.30 onwards.
Born 1917 January 20th died May 16th 2006.
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