Tony Mottershaw (b1942)
THE young Anthony Mottershaw lived at Cowes Road and went to Earlesfield Primary School and Spitalgate Boys then on to St Wulfram’s Secondary School.
He worked at Aveling-Barfords and also at Kontaks, had a few great years at Granfrieght and then moved on to EMEB up until he relocated to Paignton, where he still lives.
While in Grantham he was a founding members of The Kobalts and played in the band until 1964. The group have met up since and played a few gigs over the years.
Other bands he played in included River Duo and Denver Duo, as well as performing as a solo artist.
He then joined Streetlife around 1980 and stayed in the band until it broke up, whenI then joined Catch 22, which I left as I moved down to Devon.
Since living in Paignton Tony’s continued to play guitar in different set ups and is currently in Pendulum 5.
I met up with Tony a couple of years ago on a trip to Torquay. We spent a very rainy day talking about old times when we were in the Kobalts. He has hardly changed apart from getting older. Still a quiet unassuming guy. He gave me a CD of him playing The Shadows hits and it is excellent.. We were both surprised that six hours had gone by. I would really like to see him again and watch him playing at a gig. It would be great to have him playing in Grantham again………