A celebration of the life of Neil (Tommy) Tomlinson

Tommy Where to start – well I guess our friendship started later than our school days as Tommy was a few years below me ‘one never spoke to years below you, we met a few times after our school years as my friend Ian had a brother Neil – NO not Neil but Neil who […]

I met Neil (Tommy) through the Staines Posse; his group of friends that lived locally to him, most of whom he had known since his school days. It seems that once you became Tommy’s friend, you were always a friend. I got to know him better when he started coming to watch rugby, specifically Harlequins at the […]

Tommy and I used to go to lots of rock concerts when we were teenagers. The last time we saw each other, just two weeks before he passed away, we had been fondly reminiscing about one of our best gigs. At the end of Nov 1983 we went to see Ozzy Osbourne at the Hammersmith […]

A large contract renegotiation… It was a crisp, cold and bright morning in London, the usual congestion meant traffic was bumper to bumper outside as I waited for Neil to arrive on his train. It was an important meeting for us, and was being held on the 8th floor of one of those modern glass […]

I met Tommy through a close mutual friend, Olly, who was at school with him. I was all grown up, and had children who had just started at Staines Prep, incidentally where I believe Tommy had been head boy, many years previously. Olly had children in the same class, and we became friends and I […]