Popular Worthing entertainer dies

By The Newsroom
Published 15th Jan 2016, 14:00 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 06:51 BST
Peter Lock, who joined Worthing Musical Comedy Society in 1946, with memorabilia W29204H13Peter Lock, who joined Worthing Musical Comedy Society in 1946, with memorabilia W29204H13
Peter Lock, who joined Worthing Musical Comedy Society in 1946, with memorabilia W29204H13

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WORTHING entertainer and hospice volunteer Peter Lock has died in hospital at the age of 91.

Decribed by friends as ‘an amazing character’, Peter was a member of Worthing Musical Comedy Society for 69 years and appeared in more than 130 large-scale musical productions at major theatres in the area.

Mr Lock, who died from cancer on Monday, was also a long-standing volunteer at St Barnabas House hospice in Worthing.

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Hugh Lowson, chief executive, said: “Before becoming a volunteer, Peter was one of the first members of staff at St Barnabas at Columbia Drive, having formerly been a theatre technician at Worthing Hospital, where our founder, Dr Gusterson, recruited him.

Mr Lock, right, with friend Ray Tasker at the 2013 HMS Hood Memorial Service at Worthing War MemorialMr Lock, right, with friend Ray Tasker at the 2013 HMS Hood Memorial Service at Worthing War Memorial
Mr Lock, right, with friend Ray Tasker at the 2013 HMS Hood Memorial Service at Worthing War Memorial

“Peter’s initial role at St Barnabas was to care for the patients in the morning and, in the afternoon, to turn his hand to anything that might need attention from painting old iron beds to chasing away the ponies that used to stray into the hospice’s vegetable patch!