Garry Whiting

[Hugh Norwood]

Here are the details for Garry's funeral stream
Website https://watch.obitus.com
Username fuvi3098
Password 607196

the link will open about 5 minutes before the service is due to start. they company requests folk observe the common decencies if there is a prior service still in progress.

I believe the on-demand version will appear some (short) time later after editing.

Thank you.

[Hugh Norwood]

Some memories of Garry Whiting.

Many will know of Garry's extensive knowledge of Narrow Gauge Railway modelling.

My first memory of meeting Garry was at a meeting of the West Yorkshire Group at Peter Kirkby's home, where we were standing around Peter's layout that took up most of the space in his modelling room; I nearly knocked one of Garry's locos over, which he had put out just behind me. Things improved, I'm glad to say.

When Garry accompanied me with my layout to model railway shows, or if I was tagging along with him and Bill Luty, he always knew the route take (although he did his best to avoid motorways) and could be relied on to find somewhere to have a break or a meal on the way. His speciality on drives was cafes that did proper Full English breakfasts at a decent price. He could also find restaurants for evening meals, which were always good (even if they were occasionally eye-wateringly expensive).

Garry had a remarkable memory and had a wealth of anecdotes and reminiscences. He talked about his time as a lad, his time at college in Porstmouth and of his time in the Specials and (without breaking professional confidentiality) about his time at work. He could talk about the cinema, Science Fiction, Spy fiction and Crime fiction. Car journeys were never dull!

He was always generous with his time and advice on modelling matters – and indeed with hard-to-find parts! Although he had not read any of Terry Pratchett's works, Garry could answer practically all questions from the public at shows, allowing me to leave the layout in safe hands to have breaks.

[MickT]

UPDATE

For the benefit of those who were viewing the funeral live feed, which terminated prematurely before the conclusion of the service, and for anyone else who was unable to attend in person and would like to see the funeral, the full feed has now been restored and is available for viewing, including the last several minutes that were missing on the live feed, and will be accessible until the end of this month, using the same web address, user name and password that Hugh published on 22 December, 2 posts below.

I'll also publish this on NGRM-Online as I know that there are a number of Garry's friends and colleagues who are members there but not on here.

If you are in contact with anyone who is not a member of either forum, appreciate if you will please pass on this information before the end of January, Thankyou.

Mick

[Hugh Norwood]

The service is now available for download (as an MP4 file of 416 Mb!) from this link (until 2 Feb)

https://watch.obitus.com/download/15b80b4b-a209-4832-9a1d-e9abecf602da

[Hugh Norwood]

Garry's family informed me that the collection at his funeral raised £320, which has been sent to Yorkshire Cancer Research. Thank you.

[kebo66]

Hi
What a beautiful and fitting tribute to Garry Whiting by John Varley, 009 News February 2025, it was both moving and amusing. RIP