We now have the full details of Brian Cunningham's funeral. It will be held at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 364 Brixton Road, SW9 0TH at 11 am on Wednesday, 22 November.

This will be followed by cremation at West Norwood Crematorium at 12.30 pm.

It is likely that there will be only a few people there, so we are not planning to have formal funeral lunch, just go to a local cafe.

John Gilhooly

I thought I should let you know that my wife’s uncle, Brian Kevin Cunningham, died on Friday 22 September in St Thomas’s Hospital, from pneumonia following a hip operation. He was 91.

Brian, who was born on 15 July 1932, was an Old Boy. He went to Clapham College, possibly just for his last two years at secondary school to get the qualifications he needed to go on to higher education. So I guess that he was at Clapham in 1948-49 and 1949-50, or thereabouts. Fr. Anthony Richins remembered him from school and later from church: Brian was a practising Catholic throughout his life, attending Our Lady of the Rosary Church on Brixton Road.

We have very little information on his working career beyond knowing that his final job was at the British Museum Library. Until he died, he lived in the house he was born in --- in Gateley Road in Brixton ---along with his four older unmarried sisters, who all died some time before him. He did not marry either.