Jim Fossett’s photograph of the Footbridge reconstruction reminded me of my limited interaction with our famous harbor crossing. In my earlier memory I recall visiting Chetley Rittall at his boat shop in what is now Brady’s restaurant at the head of.
Betty Cottle suffered decades of the veteran circus impresario s sexual infidelities, relentless womanising and cocaine addiction before splitting with him in 2001.
The stockbroker s son who ran away to the circus! How Gerry Cottle, who died of Covid-19 at 75, left boring suburbia to become king of the Big Top with a VERY colourful love life - and beat bankruptcy, drugs and sex addiction
Circus impresario Gerry Cottle, from Surrey, has died of Covid-19 aged 75
Born to a stockbroker father, he ran away to join the circus at the age of 15
He found success and in his heyday was the operator of Britain s biggest circus
But there was also bankruptcy, a cocaine habit and a sex addiction