Welcome back to the life of
We left Harry back in 1944, working as management for The Peacock Hotel, a Grade II Listed Building in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, while he was taking a break from the music halls. Dick aka Harry, first appeared back in the tabloids on, October 24 1947.
24 October 1947 – Market Harborough Advertiser
07 November 1947 – Market Harborough Advertiser
02 July 1948 – Northampton Mercury – Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
14 July 1949 – The Stage – London
The Stage Newspaper – 28th July 1949.
15 September 1949 – The Stage – London, London – Theatre Royal, Loughborough
02 June 1950 – Grantham Journal – Grantham, Lincolnshire
29 December 1950 – Surrey Mirror – Reigate
19 November 1951 – Sunderland Daily Echo
03 December 1951 – Sunderland Daily Echo
30 July 1954 – Hampshire Telegraph – Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
14th, 15th & 16th October 1954 – Birmingham Daily Gazette
21 June 1955 – Birmingham Daily Gazette
10 December 1955 – Portsmouth Evening News
16 December 1955 – Hampshire Telegraph – Portsmouth
17th & 29th December 1955 – Portsmouth Evening News
03 February 1956 – Hampshire Telegraph
13 July 1956 – Norwood News – London
Sadly, this is where Dicks tabloid journey comes to an end. Dick Montague aka Harry Richard Thomas Willats, died on 3 December 1965 in Clayhanger, Staffordshire, when he was 64 years old. He was working as a, Club Steward and still entertaining right up until her died.
I feel kinda sad that his journey is over, I wish I could have met him and watched him perform, hopefully though a little of his wit and love for laughter, has passed on through the generations and we descendants can carry a little piece of him with us.
May he fill the heavens with laughter.
Harry Richard Thomas Willats,
Dick Montague
1901 – 1965
If you missed the other posts about Harry, you can find them, here and here.
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Lily Millie Hilda Wilatts was my sister-in-law’s grandmother & it is believed that she met her husband while performing on the London stage. Reading about so many family members appearing in the theatre this now seems likely.
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