Felix Bowness

Felix wanted to go into show business from school but his parents persuaded him to take an apprenticeship as a shop fitter which he finished in 1946t then he was called up to the Royal Berkshire Regiment.He enjoyed boxing and was an amateur Flyweight champion for London and the Southern Counties .He entered a talent contest in Reading in 1944 and encouraged by Elsie and Doris Waters when they were on the same radio show he became a warm up man on the Morecambe and Wise television show for 20 years , He married Mavis in October 1950 and had a son Robert ho became a policeman