The man known as the "Voice of Fagley" has died.

Tributes have been pouring in since pensioner Bert Beaumont was found dead in his home on the Fagley Estate in Bradford last Sunday.

On Monday the 76-year-old, who died from natural causes, will be buried in a double grave alongside his wife Joan in Bradford's historic Undercliffe Cemetery. Mrs Beaumont died in 1991.

A special service will be held before the ceremony in the Fagley Youth and Community Centre which will also host the wake afterwards.

To many on the estate Bert Beaumont was simply "Mr Fagley". He was instrumental in setting up the Fagley Community Association in the 1970s and the building and running of Fagley Youth and Community Centre.

Last year he gave up his post as chairman of the Fagley Tenants' and Residents' Association after more than but stayed on as an honorary member.

But his real love was football and he remained a committed supporter of Fagley Football Club and its junior sides. His eldest daughter Elaine Dalby, 51, of Morley, said her father had lived on Fagley for half his life.

She said: "Fagley was his world, he just lived for it. He loved the football teams. We were trying to get him to come away on holiday after the New Year but he wanted to wait until May when the football season had ended.

"Dad loved his family and friends. He especially loved his six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He just loved life."

Alan Clarke, senior youth worker at Fagley Youth and Community Centre, said there were plans to put up a memorial on land near the centre which Bert had campaigned to clear up.

Mr Clarke said: "He was a character but also the voice of the estate."

Annette Horsfall, one of the original members of the Fagley Community Association, said "There is part of Fagley gone now that Bert has died. It's going to be very hard to replace him."

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