TRIBUTES have been paid to the president of the Barnsley Branch of the National Market Traders’ Federation Geoff Blackburn.
Geoff died last Tuesday, aged 79, following a short illness. He had continued to work on his carpet stall on the semi-open market until just a few weeks ago.
His funeral was held yesterday, with Thursday chosen because Geoff ‘would not have wanted it to be on a market day’.
Peter Kwapisz, vice president of the Market Traders’ Federation in Barnsley, said Geoff was one of the market’s ‘great characters’.
Read more in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated November 20.
