| Location | East End London |
| Age | 92 years |
| Date of Birth | 11/07/1916 |
| Date of Death | 16/11/2008 |
| Visitors | 1,759 since 17/11/2008 |
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Better known as Stan from
'On the buses'
Reg Varney, who has died aged 92, endeared himself to a wide television audience in the 1970s through the role of the cheeky chappie bus driver in the ITV series On the Buses and the two spin-off cinema films which followed. In 76 television episodes, lasting from February 1969 to May 1973, the bachelor boy Stan Butler who lived with his mother (Doris Hare) was always pitting his wits against Blakey, the twitchily neurotic bus inspector played by Stephen Lewis - and usually coming off bruised but not beaten
Reg Varney
Reg Alfred Varney was born on 11th July 1916 in London's East End.
He attended Star Lane Primary School in Newham.
His dad worked in a rubber factory in Silvertown. Reg had 2 sisters.
Leaving school at 14 he worked as a messenger boy and a page boy at Regents Park Hotel.
He also started his career as a piano player after taking lessons as a child.
His first paid engagement was at Plumstead Radical Club in Woolwich for which he was paid eight shillings and sixpence
Playing in working mens clubs at the age of 14, and later singing with Big Bands of the time. Also appearing in ABC Cinemas and Pubs he and his mum decided that a showbiz was the career for him and gave up his day jobs
His career altered slightly with the onset of war with him joining the Royal Electrical Engineers during the war, he continued performing in Stars in Battledress and did a tour of the Far East.
He then went on to become an all round entertain working his way around the Music Halls. Also doing Summer Shows, Benny Hill would play his straight man.(yes that Benny Hill)
In 1961 he got the role as a foreman in a TV series called The Rag Trade.
After that followed another comedy role in Begger My Neighbour.
This also starred Pat Coombs, June Whitfield and Peter JonesBeggar my Neighbour. Pat Coombs was to play Reg Varneys wife and of course would Pat would later appear in the ON THE BUSES movie
The series ran from March 1967 to March 1968 and a short special was shown as part of Christmas Night With The Stars on 25th December 1967.
24 episodes of 30 minute duration
Then another sitcom was penned by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chessney who had wrote The Rag Trade.
The series was called On The Buses. It proved a great success and Reg started to take on more film roles
Go For A Take,
The Best Pair of Legs In The Business. In this Reg gives what I think is a brilliant performance as a Drag Artist come Compere at a caravan holiday site.
It is a bitter sweet film and you should get to watch it if evewr you get the chance.
Down The Gate followed but was not a great success. He played a Billingsgate Fish Porter
He also had six of his own hour long spectaculars "The Other Reg Varney."
He had his own cabaret act and toured places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
In 1988 On The Buses went onto the stage and again Reg went over to Australia playing Stan.
A few years later Reg was found to have health problems and took up residence in a small village near Dartmouth. He also owns
a villa in Malta
He is now retired and spends his time between his home and villa.
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The Winding Path
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There is a winding path
That leads to Heaven above
Where our loved ones have travelled
And taken with them our love
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One way takes us to sorrow
With which our hearts are full
Another way takes us to our memories
Where we are always thinking of you
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The one path we will walk on
On which we will always remain
Is the one that leads us to heaven
To be reunited with you again
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Copyright Brenda Derrick 25~7~11
ღ ღ ღ ღ All My Love Beautiful Angel ღ ღ ღ ღ
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How will heaven be?
As far as I can see
It will have huge bells
And will be situated on clouds
It will have many golden wells
That will so often swell
Rain will be abundant
And the sun will shine all day long
Angels will play on the harp
The sweetest summer song
Music that will touch the heart
While those beneath will shed drops of sorrow
Little will they know what will happen on the morrow
But to them up above
As plain and clear it will be
As far as far as I can see
Yes there will be misty alleys
And lush green meadows
Fresh with the fragrant smell of spring
Winter will never be bitter
Summer never so hot
Autumn never so bare
And resources never so scarce
Food for all will be relished by all.
Grateful we’ll be as grateful can be
Mountains high and strong and brown
Surrounding that hidden land,
Beautiful and vast seas I see
There colour as blue as sapphire can be
And the white waves lashing upon the shore
Sitting on the flattened grey rocks
Who would not call it absolutely heavenly?
However it might actually be,
But can we still not see
There will lie behind this seen
A relieving feeling of bliss
For where not have we been
But is this not by all believed
That after one’s decease
This is the land of eternal peace
Where we all ultimately reach?
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Waking Angel
The eyes softly open,
As a beeze smooths the face,
At first golden light is seen,
But once the eyes have awoken,
After a long and restful sleep,
Its seen to be,
Shimmers of sunlight beaming through a holly tree,
They dance and flicker through the leaves,
Then the Angel steps out from under the tree,
To see, a large blue sky, with clouds of dazzeling white
and below grass, warmed by sunlight
Then all around flowers bloom and fruit ripens
And trees sway with a calm breeze
Then a pathway appears
Going down between
Two loveheart shaped trees
The Angel follows and with each footstep
A new fragrance from a flower just bloomed sents the air
and shade from the trees takes away all cares
Until the Angel has walked down the pathway
Leaving this place.
Yet what the Angel did not know
Is that they had just left Heavens Garden
With a pathway to heavens palace
Yet if you ever see it
Just remember this
Its a wonderland of luscious fruits and flowers in bloom
But you have to be quiet when you go there
Because under the warm sun & the moon and stars that calm
Angels slumber there,
At all hours, dreaming away their cares.
~Dedicated to Nanny Maria~ An Amazing Lady~
By Ryan S. Aged 16. 3/2/2011.
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And He will raise you up on eagle’s wings
Bear you on the breath of dawn,
Make you to shine like the sun,
And hold you in the palm of His hand.
~ Michael Joncas
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You — and you alone — will have stars as no one else has them.
In one of them I shall be laughing.
And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing
when you look at the sky at night.
You — only you — will have stars that can laugh!
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows),
you will be content that you have known me.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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WHEN I REACH THOSE GOLDEN GATES I KNOW YOU WILL BE THERE FOR ME
WE CAN WALK TOGETHER HAND IN HAND IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
WHERE THERE IS NO MORE HEARTBREAK AND NO MORE PAIN
WE WILL BE TOGETHER WHEN THE ANGELS COME AND CALL MY NAME
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I KNOW THOSE GOLDEN GATES WILL BE OPEN WIDE AND I WILL SEE YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE
THEN I CAN HOLD YOU ONCE AGAIN IN MY LOVING EMBRACE
UNTIL THEN I WILL HOLD EACH MEMORY SAFE INSIDE OF MY HEART
UNTIL THE DAY THAT WE ARE JOINED TOGETHER NOT LIVING TWO WORLDS APART..........
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