WITH the death of Barbara Morrison, Bromsgrove's last link with the centuries-old craft of stained glass has been broken.

Perhaps better known as the wife of the late Archibald John 'Loppylugs' Morrison, Barbara died on December 27 at the Hall Nursing Home in Bromsgrove, where she had lived for the past five years.

Her funeral took place this morning (Wednesday) at Redditch Crematorium.

She was born in June 1911 in Victoria Road.

Barbara's father, coincidentally also named Archibald John, designed and made stained glass windows in his studio at the world-renowned Bromsgrove Guild from 1906 until his death in 1953.

He was perhaps Bromsgrove's greatest artist/craftsman.

Barbara, an only child, was apprenticed to her father in his studio in Station Street, and like him, from 1927, attended Birmingham School of Art.

She was involved in producing windows in the west cloister of Worcester Cathedral and painted the peacock which is part of the Guild's display at the County Museum at Hartlebury.

In 1968, in memory of her father who was responsible for some 350 stained glass windows, many of which grace religious buildings world-wide, Barbara commissioned and funded a window in Bromsgrove United Reformed Church in Windsor Street.

Loppylugs, an accountant by profession, was a true character who had a passion for cricket and hunting and for a time wrote a regular column on the activities for the Messenger under that name.

Suitably attired in a blue jacket, he followed the hounds on foot and his over enthusiastic use of his hunting horn at cricket grounds regularly landed him in trouble.

The couple, who lived in East Road, also co-wrote and published a number of books on stained glass and local history.