Tributes paid to Leverington newsagent Brian Webb
Tributes have been paid to well-known newsagent Brian Webb who has died at the age of 79 following a long illness.
Brian, who owned Webbs Newsagents in Leverington, died at the end of last month in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn.
He was born in Cambridge in 1945 and moved with his family to West Walton in 1948.
He worked as a delivery boy from the age of 13 years. He passed his driving test at 17 and brought his first business paper round with just over 300 customers for £600.
Brian has built his business up since then and at its peak he had nearly 2,000 customers and was known as East Anglia’s largest independent newsagent.
He married Pauline at Tydd St Mary Church on January 1, 1968. They went on to have three children together, Sharon, Stuart and Stacey. Brian also has two other children Shaun and Ethan.
He leaves six grandchildren, Lauren, Ellie, Jenna, Evie, Louie, and Frankie, and two great-grandchildren, Rosie and Alfie. He was a big brother to Graham, Brenda, and the late Sheena.
Brian had a passion for snooker playing weekly in the Wisbech and King’s Lynn leagues and became the secretary/treasurer of both leagues. He ran the local ‘Supercue’ in Chapel Road for a number of years.
One of his hobbies was scrambling, which he did from age 26. Most weekends were spent racing or tinkering with his bikes.
He also enjoyed golf with his brother Graham and his friends at Tydd St Giles Golf Club.
In 2014, he launched ‘Webbs Postal Service’, delivering post for his residential customers and local businesses to over 23 villages around this area.
This continued up until the end of March this year when due to his ill health the postal service had to stop. His newspaper business will still continue, but will be under a new name of ‘Keeley & Webb Newsagents Ltd’ and will be run by Sharon and her husband Glen with the help of Stuart and Stacey'
Brian’s funeral is at St Mary’s Church, West Walton on Monday, September 30 at 11am, followed by refreshments at Walton Highway Village Club.
Anyone who knew him is more than welcome to attend.
