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Published: 20 July 2007

Trafalgar Square will miss Brian

• I WORK across the road from Brian’s McNicholas (Obituaries, July 6) stall in South Africa House and was a friend of he and his family.
Although not a close friend, I have spent many lunchbreaks standing at the stall talking to big Brian, his son Brian, close friend Jimmy and, on occasions, his lovely wife Pat and other son Danny over the past seven years or more.
In the time I have known this gentleman and his family I can honestly say that he was a man who had time for everybody, from the vicar of St Martins to the local down-and-outs who stopped to talk to him. When Brian died, a piece of Trafalgar Square went with him.
Brian had a great sense of humour and even the day he died he was giving me some friendly stick outside the embassy that morning.
Many people use the term ‘a true gentleman’, well in real life that honour is only attributed to few. Brian was a true gentleman right at the top of the list. RIP Brian.
A HAMMOND
South Africa House

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, West End Extra, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@westendextra.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number.
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