Formby was one of the biggest stars of the ... The entry for that Friday says simply: "George's funeral." An estimated 100,000-150,000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to pay their respects ...

But the George Formby show descended into a circus when ... the 150,000 people who lined the streets of Warrington for his funeral. Buried next to his comic father, an inscription on the grave ...

Upon George’s death Pat arranged his funeral at St Wilfrid’s Church, Preston, while he was Resting in Repose at McKenna Funerals, Preston. But Formby’s mother Eliza stopped the funeral and ...

Respectful crowds lined the streets of Warrington as his funeral cortege passed by on the way to the cemetery. In the years ahead his son George Formby Junior would follow in his father’s ...

When Formby died in 1961, aged 56, more than 150,000 fans lined the 20-mile route of his funeral procession ... someone it’s a spectator sport, but George Formby fans all walk in his path ...

The George Formby Society aims to keep his memory and music alive – getting together people of all ages and musical abilities to play the ukulele. The George Formby Society meets at George V WMC ...

The entry for that Friday says simply: "George's funeral." An estimated 100,000-150,000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to pay their respects when his funeral was held. Formby's fiancee Pat ...