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Article: Final farewell to 'Mr Brum' ; FUNERAL: Hundreds of mourners celebrate life of Sir Richard
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- February 28, 2008
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A BIRMINGHAM church was packed to the rafters for the funeral of
"Mr Birmingham" Sir Richard Knowles.
It was standing room only when more than 200 family, friends and
political allies and foes crammed into St Michael and All Angels
Parish Church in Bartley Green yesterday to pay tribute to the
former city council leader who died last week aged 90 from bladder
cancer.
Politicians put their allegiances aside to pay respects to the
man largely credited with the the regeneration of Birmingham in the
1980s and 1990s.
The church's vicar, the Rev Colin Mansley, told the congregation -
or "comrades" as he called them - that Sir Richard was Mr
Birmingham.
"His memory will live on. He was a truly ...