Alex Burgon, who died last week, will be remembered as a blacksmith, vintage car enthusiast, model wood carver, Mason with Lodge 111, an authority on the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign and proud KOSB veteran.
The nonagenarian left an indelible mark on many people’s lives.
In an account of his life he compiled in 2010, which he titled A Lucky Man, he tells of an Indian hawker who came to the smiddy at Newmill many years previously. After buying a tie from the old man, he told Alex his fortune which included ‘you are a lucky man’. “Over the years I think he was right,” wrote Alex.
He was born at Mariners Cottages on the outskirts of Berwick on April 8, 1930. He remembered the blackouts as a youngster during the Second World War and food rationing that went on until the early 1950s.
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