Bob Cryer

:"For The Bill character of the same name, see Bob Cryer."

George Robert Cryer, known as Bob Cryer (3 December 1934 – 12 April 1994) was a politician in the United Kingdom.

He was the Labour Member of Parliament for Keighley (1974 - 1983) and Bradford South (1987 - 1994) until his death at the age of 59 in a road traffic accident. During his absence from the British Parliament, Bob Cryer was an MEP for Sheffield from 1984 to 1989.

After British Rail closed the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Cryer was one of a group of local people who formed the KWVR Preservation Society, which bought the line from British Rail and reopened it. As the Society's first chairman, he helped to facilitate the shooting of the film "The Railway Children" on the line in the summer of 1970..

His wife Ann Cryer has been MP for Keighley since 1997, and their son John Cryer was MP for Hornchurch from 1997 until 2005.

External links

* [http://www.kwvr.co.uk/ Keighley & Worth Valley Railway]