Mark "Mozaz" Wallis - A Celebration Of his life.

A Celebration of the life of

Mark "Mozaz" Wallis

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Held at Grenoside Crematorium

Thursday 3, Feb 2011

For those who could not attend a collection of images from his last day out...

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As most of us know his favourite explore was George Barnsley Tools, Kelham Island. And so it was from here that his friends gathered awaiting Mozaz to arrive for his last look at the old place..

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At around 11.30 am the hearse arrived slowly edging up to the gates where only a few months ago he posed in the old deck chair.

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True to his Tree Hugging principles it could only be a green funeral and a basket casket was truly fitting.

The sun was quite strong but as our old pal arrived it gathered intensity...

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Into the light goes our old buddy...

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Onto to the Crematorium the cortege drove past his favourite boozer.. The Black Cat.

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Converse and myself were proud to be one of the six pallbearers to do Mozaz one last service.

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The music chosen for the service was "Revolutionary" the welcome & introduction was performed by his old friend Deacon Dave Havard.

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There followed lots of friends sharing their memories of Mozaz with us all. No one was under any illusions, most said they found him difficult but they loved him all the same...

There was a touching slide show of images half way through which captivated everyone.

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His old friend Sam says one last goodbye...

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When we had outstayed our welcome at the crem due to the next service being about to commence we went onto the working man's club for the afternoon.

Once again memories were shared, sadness tinged with laughter was the order of the day.

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Dan aka Tranny saur arse rex did a little song on stage, video to follow at some point.

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Sam needs little encouragement to get people to raise their glasses to Mozaz, followed by cheers.. Sam his great friend has worked tirelessly to give him a good send off, and a good send off he had..

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Thanks for looking...

Thanks so much for sharing this SS, even though i didnt know him i would have loved to have gone and paid my repects to the poor old chap. The picture of him sat outside GB with the car going past really give me the shivers.

Great to see so many people there. Looks like Sam organised such a fitting day for him. I would have liked to have gone I think, and glad to hear that it went well :thumb

Rest in Peace 0742, happy travels.

Cheers SS.
Big hats off to Sam for holding it all together and giving him a fitting and appropriate send off.
Gone but never forgotten, RIP 0742

A great collection of images SS and the shot of the funeral car and 0742 is outstanding!

lovely mark:)

I think he would have been proud with his send off, the crem was packed..

Looks a good turn out. Thanks for making a record of the event.

A great send off,

R.I.P. 0742

It was a truely remarkable funeral, I felt honoured to be a palbearer. Goodnight 0742

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Brilliant Converse...

That last shot is really powerful...

It was a great send off, a fitting tribute to Mozaz.

"Peace, Love, Rage & Anarchy"

Nicely captured Converse :thumb Deffo caught the right moments.

Being new to the forum i didnt know Mozza, nor his exploits but this is a very touching tribute to someone who was obvioulsy well loved by many.

Poor old 0742, he's up there at this moment, borrowing others pictures.

One of the big characters of UE has gone and may he be blessed.

Cheers for posting these SS & Converse, great to see so many people giving him a great send off.

Never did get to meet the bloke, always thought we would bump into him around Sheffield, glad to see he got a good send off, thanks for posting the photos. RIP Bucolic.

Beautifully captured,rip mozaz x

Thanks for posting this. R.I.P Mozaz.

Really good pics there both of you :)

There were plenty of tears and plenty of laughter and not an empty seat to be had. Mozaz got the send off he deserved. And the icing on the cake was the fact that the sun was shining on George Barnsley's :thumb God bless mate.

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There were plenty of tears and plenty of laughter and not an empty seat to be had. Mozaz got the send off he deserved. And the icing on the cake was the fact that the sun was shining on George Barnsley's :thumb God bless mate.

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Really well said Gaz,
It was really nice to visit The Fat Cat after the very good service,(In which his friends who got up to reflect on their lives around Mozaz were truly awesome)
And for you to have one of his favourites, A pint of pale rider and the steak pie.....:D you done him proud fella.:thumb

I havent been on here in a while, i never met the guy but this really touched me! I wish i had known him

I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to Mozaz's final day. As far as I am concerned, it was a resounding success, a day I am sure he would have approved of. I hope we managed to get a good balance of humour and unconventionality whilst still remaining respectful. To see so many people turn up at George Barnsleys really lifted me and on arriving at the crem, I burst into tears seeing how many people had come. I think we did my old mate proud! I still have quite a few 'orders of service' booklets left so if anyone wants one, just let me know ok.

Once again, thanks so much to everyone.

Listen to the funeral here.

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It's nice too see a whole community come together like this for a fellow explorer, great stuff guys!

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I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to Mozaz's final day. As far as I am concerned, it was a resounding success, a day I am sure he would have approved of. I hope we managed to get a good balance of humour and unconventionality whilst still remaining respectful. To see so many people turn up at George Barnsleys really lifted me and on arriving at the crem, I burst into tears seeing how many people had come. I think we did my old mate proud! I still have quite a few 'orders of service' booklets left so if anyone wants one, just let me know ok.

Once again, thanks so much to everyone.

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Visited George Barnsley's last weekend to see the plaque....and to great disappointment the plaque was missing. Can't believe someone would do that :(

They probs thought it was an old plaque for some old worker and nicked it with a load of other stuff, or the owner took it down. I kind of expected it but I doubt it was an explorer

i dont wanna sound disrespectful but who was this guy? i listened to some of the funeral service someone posted a link to - im guessing he was an urbexer too? he mentioned stuff about photography...

anywhere we can see his work online...?

kinda sad about his mother though... the fact he wanted to make up to her, whatever happened, but fell unconcious before she got there...

sounds like a quality guy though... whoever he was - he sounds like he'll be missed

He was known by a few alias in his time. His most famous was 0742. Google "urbex 0742" should throw enough links at you

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anywhere we can see his work online...?

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There are threads on here. This will bring up some reports: http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/search....vBForum_Thread

http://pretentiousartist.blogspot.com/
http://underclassrising.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/Babydeltic003
http://www.flickr.com/photos/0742/
etc