When Tony and Maureen moved to their present home in Orpington, Tony became a keen gardener and observer of all the wildlife to be found in his garden and further afield in the Kent countryside. Tony didn’t stop working full-time as a motor engineer until he was 82! This didn't prevent him continuing to work on various friends’ cars at his home or, when his facilities at home were not sufficient, back at his earlier place of work in Catford where his former colleagues John and Lee became used to such occasional visits.
Tony just couldn't stop working, and it was this drive and determination which almost certainly prevented him or anybody from realising that his health really was deteriorating, until very recently when it was discovered that he had cancer which had developed to the point where medical intervention could not help very much.
Tony spent much of his last few weeks in the Princess Royal University Hospital (which is what we used to know as Farnborough Hospital in the old days) where he was looked after and cared for brilliantly. He spent his final days surrounded by his family, thankfully without pain, before passing away peacefully early in the morning on the 8th of March 2010.
Tony just couldn't stop working, and it was this drive and determination which almost certainly prevented him or anybody from realising that his health really was deteriorating, until very recently when it was discovered that he had cancer which had developed to the point where medical intervention could not help very much.
Tony spent much of his last few weeks in the Princess Royal University Hospital (which is what we used to know as Farnborough Hospital in the old days) where he was looked after and cared for brilliantly. He spent his final days surrounded by his family, thankfully without pain, before passing away peacefully early in the morning on the 8th of March 2010.
