[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.

[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.

[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 he's retired now though

[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

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

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Garry the gravedigger who is also the local butcher

I hope he washes his hands

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

I hope he washes his hands

Where do you think he gets his meat from

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Where do you think he gets his meat from

That takes living off the land to a whole new level

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

I hope he washes his hands

Very funny.

[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.

[Josy]

Does LT live in Royston Vasey

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Josy

Does LT live in Royston Vasey

[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]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

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]

Youtube video

[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.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by 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/2...eral-jesus-man

[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]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

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

[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