Town/Village Characters

[Josy]

We had a thread like this before but another won't hurt..

Is there any characters that are well known in your area?

We had lots in our area before we moved but not any more..

[Liam-]

He hasn't been seen for a while but there's a guy that everyone calls Charlie, I'm not even sure if that's his real name :laugh but you always used to see him driving around in his original red Robin Reliant with a massive smile on his face.

And there's a stray dog that walks around my street and regularly goes down to the local rugby club and hangs around with all the people there, plays with the kids, runs through the water, sits outside in the beer garden getting fussed over, he's lush, but again, haven't seen him for a while either.

[Niamh.]

Peter the Postman, he used to deliver the post on his push bike for the whole village so somedays we wouldn't get our post till 10pm, he used to wear his uniform all the time even on his days off :laugh: he's retired now though

[Kyle]

There was this proper goth kid that used to wander around town a few years back. He was about 6 foot 7 so what did he do? Wear big ass platform boots that put another 3 or 4 inches on top of that.

Fair play to him though for not giving a fud what other people thought.

[Kyle]

Oh and there's this guy who works for South Yorkshire travel who proper looks like Rod Stewart. The guy is a legend I'm pretty sure I've seen him in Meadowhall interchange, Sheffield Interchange, Rotherham bus station and Donny and Barnsley too.

[Marc]

I think my mum's one of those characters

[rubymoo]

There's a man round my way called David, he always wants to stroke my dog but my dog really dislikes him and growls, so i have to walk past really quickly saying "sorry my dog doesn't like strangers...." when i look around after passing him he's still stood there looking at my dog:laugh:

There's also a guy with a motorised scooter, he has a dog that's never on his lead and walks about 20 feet behind him, he always has a tin of lager in each of his coat pockets regardless of the time of day;) it actually reminds me of an embarrassing story, i'll post on that thread:)

[Crimson Dynamo]

Garry the gravedigger who is also the local butcher

[Mitchell]

Salvo, our local clown (I kid you not)

He is the worst facebooker ever and a bloody liar.

He said he couldn't go to town to blow up balloons because of an ingrown toenail, but cycled past our local barbers at full speed shouting hello to the barber an hour later.

[Liam-]

Garry the gravedigger who is also the local butcher

I hope he washes his hands :worry:

[Kyle]

I hope he washes his hands :worry:

Where do you think he gets his meat from :umm2:

[Josy]

Does LT live in Royston Vasey

[kirklancaster]

I hope he washes his hands :worry:

Very funny. :joker::joker::joker:

[kirklancaster]

Does LT live in Royston Vasey

:joker::joker::joker:

[Liam-]

Where do you think he gets his meat from :umm2:

That takes living off the land to a whole new level :shrug:

[Crimson Dynamo]

You people are all alike, You march in here, young! try and touch the local things. I suppose next you'll be spraying me with one of those cans of paint, smearing poor Tubbs here with excrement?

[Josy]

You people are all alike, You march in here, young! try and touch the local things. I suppose next you'll be spraying me with one of those cans of paint, smearing poor Tubbs here with excrement?

What's all this shouting? We'll have no trouble here

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[MTVN]

Yeah we have our fair share of characters and strange folk, comes with being a pretty tiny village which can be quite insular, you get so many rumours and local gossip about people

[Kizzy]

Danny Freeman was a man who sang outside marks and sparks in Leeds for charity for as long as I can remember, used to laugh at him as he looked a bit like uncle albert from OFAH.
Feel bad now as he was a dedicated lovely man, he raised thousands over the years and passed away in 2004. There is a plaque to his memory where he sang.

And of course the 'Bradford jesus man' who walks all over west yorkshire in monk garb saying hello to people, some say sime the mid 50s! and he never looks any older :/

http://bradfordjesusman.co.uk/about

there was a punk called Lee who had the most amazing mohican in the 90s
and a mad Jewish woman that sat on the steps in Leeds market in the 80s ripping tenners up, her family would ambush and she screamed blue murder, clean her up and a couple of weeks later she'd be back.

[Mitchell]

Oh we have a local homeless man who laughs at everyone.

[Liam-]

Omg, how could i forget the supermarket opera singer?!.. He goes into supermarkets to do his shopping and from the minute he walks in, until the moment he walks out, he's constantly singing, he's about 6,2", you can't miss him and he has the most booming operatic voice that you can hear from everywhere in the shop, nobody knows his name, but everyone loves him.

[Mitchell]

Omg, how could i forget the supermarket opera singer?!.. He goes into supermarkets to do his shopping and from the minute he walks in, until the moment he walks out, he's constantly singing, he's about 6,2", you can't miss him and he has the most booming operatic voice that you can hear from everywhere in the shop, nobody knows his name, but everyone loves him.
Omg wgat a legend

[Kizzy]

Danny Freeman was a man who sang outside marks and sparks in Leeds for charity for as long as I can remember, used to laugh at him as he looked a bit like uncle albert from OFAH.
Feel bad now as he was a dedicated lovely man, he raised thousands over the years and passed away in 2004. There is a plaque to his memory where he sang.

And of course the 'Bradford jesus man' who walks all over west yorkshire in monk garb saying hello to people, some say sime the mid 50s! and he never looks any older :/

http://bradfordjesusman.co.uk/about

there was a punk called Lee who had the most amazing mohican in the 90s
and a mad Jewish woman that sat on the steps in Leeds market in the 80s ripping tenners up, her family would ambush and she screamed blue murder, clean her up and a couple of weeks later she'd be back.

:(
Today is the funeral of the Bradford Jesus man Geoffrey Brindley

'Hundreds of well-wishers attended Bradford Cathedral on Tuesday for the funeral of one of the city’s most famous characters, an 88-year-old who touched the lives of many locals, but who, until his death, hardly anyone even knew the name of.

Geoffrey Brindley was a fixture of the city’s landscape for more than 50 years, his days spent dressed in a monk’s habit and sandals, pounding the pavements around the district’s diverse communities and waving at passersby. His dress and somewhat beatific air earned him the nicknames “the Bradford Jesus” or, more commonly, the “Jesus Man”.

Brindley was the first person John Toward saw when relocating from Thirsk to Bradford many years ago. He said: “I used to think of him as a disciple; he was certainly dedicated.” He smiles and remembers, “He once did a little dance for me, right there in the street.”

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/13/hundreds-gathers-bradford-cathedral-funeral-jesus-man

[JoshBB]

We have a man who is known for being really grumpy and always hitting things with his walking stick - a postbox, someones car when they wouldn't "move fast enough".

It's quite funny tbh :laugh:

[Daniel-X]

A woman who I think is a traveller who dances in a belly top at the top of our town centre most days and she is FAT and about fifty

[Niamh.]

There's this pub in Cork City called the Hi B and the guy who owns it is a real character, he's famous for throwing people out for the stupidest reasons like not having small enough notes or using a mobile phone

[Will.]

Colleen - town slut.
Deirdre - town bitch.
Sarah - town liar
Melissa - town scum
Paul - town dick head

[LaLaLand]

We used to have loads in Wrexham but I think sadly they're all dead now.

Hoppy - an old man, lovely but crackers, used to hop on one leg around every man-hole or drain cover he came to before continuing his walk through the high street.

Betty the Tramp - "homeless" lady, not nice at all, she'd tell you to ***** off if you asked if she was ok, who refused help. Turns out she was rolling in it and had a huge house just out of town but preferred living rough.

Big June (still here) - world's most unconvincing transvestite/transsexual (nobody knows fully which), about 6ft 5, huge black beehive, ex copper.

Angelo - friendly drunk/drug addict. He'd show you his multi-coloured tattooed tongue if you gave him some change. Ended up getting murdered. R.I.P.

There's more but I've gone blank...

[T*]

no

[mizzy25]

Im probably the character with all me dogs lol
there is a Ben Mitchell lookalike I see a lot. Theres a guy with tourettes who shouts and sings randomly. Theres Dereck the lovely bloke up the street who knows everyone, theres the local alcoholic often falls into my hedge, theres the bloke out the back who has a firwork display every year despite there being no kids there. So yeah theres a few here.

[mizzy25]

There used to be a tramp too @ the countryside park, he lived there but used to get the metro up the town and he even came in a newsagents I was working in once, haven't seen him in years so he must have died.

[Ammi]

...who's the old guy who was always in the centre of Norwich..Livia and Nathan would probably know...he wasn't there when I was there at the end of the summer, I was a bit worried about him...

[arista]

...who's the old guy who was always in the centre of Norwich..Livia and Nathan would probably know...he wasn't there when I was there at the end of the summer, I was a bit worried about him...

How Nice

[rubymoo]

Just thought i'd add some more characters from my way.....

There's a man called John who lives next door but one to me, who rides around on his bike honking his horn as he passes people (it's a proper horn fitted to his bike!).

Then there's Flo who's an elderly lady who takes her neighbours dog for a walk on the local park, she feeds all the dogs, so when she's on i lose my dogs as the charge across the park to get a biscuit off her:fist:

And then there's the man across the road who wears a stupid cowboy hat with a real fox tail attached to the back like a pony tail.....(i just want to smack that hat off his head:rant:)