Thomas ‘Bomber’ Webb marrying his wife Linda

FRIENDS and family of a colourful Camden character will bid a final farewell to him at his funeral tomorrow (Friday).

Thomas Webb – known to most around Camden Town, Chalk Farm and Kentish Town by the nickname ‘Bomber’ – died aged 79 earlier this month.

Pals celebrated his life by going to one of his favourite places on Monday night – a racecourse – as they watched the horses come home at Windsor.

He was known as one of the area’s biggest Spurs fans and would tell people about watching the double-winning side as a teenager in 1961.

In the 1970s, he was captain of the team of regulars at The Glue Pot, a pub in Plender Street. Never taking any prisoners on the pitch, he loved to think of himself as playing like the Tottenham great Dave Mackay.

He also frequented another now lost pub, the Crowndale in Ferdinand Street, Chalk Farm – close to the family home.

Thomas Webb and, below, out supporting Tottenham Hotspur

Bomber had also made lifelong friends in Camden while working as a bus driver and delivering bread. One of his closest was David St George, the legendary Old Bailey court reporter who died in 2023, and the pair would often share tips – good and bad – and go to watch the horse-racing together.

Trips to Royal Ascot were always treasured moments.

Bomber had not had the easiest start in life: his brother died after only 10 days and his mother passed away when he was still just a boy.His big sister, Diddy, stepped into a mothering role to help the family, which included three other sisters.

This only made him even more devoted to his own family, marrying the love of his life, Linda, in 1972.

The couple raised four children: Tommy, Nancy, Alan and Mandy. They also had 13 grandchildren.

Making a splash on a family holiday

A few of them went to work with him – Tom, Jack, Luke and Lily – and remember throwing rolls at people on the bread run.

Bomber loved going away with them to holiday camps or his favourite sunshine breaks to Tenerife in Spain. You can see a picture on this page of him larking about by the pool, and he loved pushing the youngsters off their lilos.

Another passion was singing and there weren’t too many friends who had not heard his rousing renditions of Elvis Presley’s The Wonder Of You, a favourite song at karaoke.

At Windsor, friends took a framed photograph of Bomber and Mr St George, and took pictures with the jockeys including Oisin Murphy.

The funeral procession will leave Mead Close, Ferdinand Street, tomorrow (Friday) at 11.30am.