User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

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User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby SadNews » Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:28 pm

I know he posted to this site a fair bit, I don't know if anyone here spoke to him regularly.

He was a friend of my family longer than I've been alive, just got a phone call today saying he passed away last night.

He loved Glasgow/Yoker and it's history, always had some interesting things to tell me.
He's taken quite a lot of photo's documenting Yoker, hopefully they'll pop up in the future when people are looking for the way it "used to be".
A lot can be found on his Flickr page https://www.flickr.com/photos/yokerbrian/albums

If anyone was close to him and/or wants to attend the funeral, pm me and I'll get back to you when I know the details.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby Boxer6 » Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:36 pm

I didn't know him, but I enjoyed his posts of an area of the city I didnt/don't know well.

Condolences on your loss SadNews.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby SadNews » Sat Nov 04, 2017 9:20 pm

Thanks Boxer.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby Guacho » Sun Nov 05, 2017 12:24 am

Brian was my cousin. So sad. Knowledgeable, amiable guy
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby SadNews » Sun Nov 05, 2017 2:42 am

Hey Guacho, yeah gutting news. He was such a lovely guy.
Condolences to your family.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby RDR » Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:17 am

Very sorry to hear this. Always enjoyed his contributions. He'll be missed. RIP
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby Delmont St Xavier » Mon Nov 06, 2017 2:02 am

This is an amazingly small community and the loss of Yoker Brian follows hard on the heels of a previous well kent contributor, Hollowhorn who contrbuted so much to this place. With the demise of these types of boards in favour of the 'couponbook' that we all know and love or loathe, this had a more personal touch with the likes of Yoker Brian and others.

And so we will mourn him but hopefully his legacy to this forum will live on and we can add to his treasures and remember him properly.

Condolences to all who knew and loved him.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby DavidMcD316 » Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:20 am

Very sad news. RIP.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby banjo » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:44 am

ach,that is so sad.i always liked a wee look across the burn at yokerbrians posts.as a whitecrook boy from a yoker family we had so much in common.r I p goodguy. :(
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby MungoDundas » Wed Nov 08, 2017 12:32 am

Ach, so sorry to learn this.
Always enjoyed his insightful posts.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby hillbilly » Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:40 pm

Only just heard. RIP. sorry to to hear this sad news. Especially as I'm also from Yoker.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby Fossil » Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:29 am

Sorry to hear this. His was one of the original great posters
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby Vinegar Tom » Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:19 pm

A bit delayed, but really sorry to hear about Yoker Brian.
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Re: User "Yoker Brian" passed away last night.

Postby robertpool » Sat May 12, 2018 4:36 am

RIP :-(
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