Local celebrities

[Scrump21]

Do you have any where you live, or any local urban legends?

The closest town to myself there was a man who drove round on a mobility scooter with 4 or 5 real life owls sat with him... He would stop and let people have pics with him and all sorts.

It wasn't done as a one off or charity, he just liked to takes his owls out I guess.

There is a man where we live who drives around in his banana yellow open top car with his dog in the front. Said dog wears a Sunderland football top.

Joe pasquale
Jools Holland
Lee ryan from blue

There used to be a man known as 'Gerry Blossom' who put shoe polish in his head to hide the fact he was as bald. Wasn't too effective a strategy...

Moses was well known in the Kingston area. Big black guy dressed head to toe in black or red, usually with a teddy strapped to his waist, a real local character and a gentle giant. I think he passed away last year.

In the town I grew up in (not the city I live in now) there were the following local characters:
Comment t'appelles-tu. He would greet you by saying comment t'appelles-tu to you and then recite bus timetables to you.
A nameless but lovely lady who had lots of warts and always wore a bright yellow rain mac and hat, regardless of the weather. She was always smiling.

i live in the same area where sean bean has a house 9used to live next door to him) i also moved then lived 5 doors down from david blunket, i also now live where sean bean has a relative he helped set up a chip shop then i also met sean bean again in primary school and was in the local newspaper with him and the rest of my class xD

Militant vegan lady campaigner in Guildford asking passers by to “Give Peas a Chance”......boom boom!

We have a man who shouts and swears at everyone and speaks to himself but about other people, rudely. He called me a slag when I was crossing the High Street

@WWDiana @Thewheelsarefallingoff I live where you live too!! Moved back recently, remember Marigold fondly from my youth and loved introducing rest of family to puppet man.. they did not grow up here and are still getting used to our accepted and loved but slightly odd “local celebs” 😂

@cassidystone yes I am!

This woman is a Southampton legend: www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/14480868.singing-trolley-assistant-pat-biggs-applauded-for-25-years-of-service-at-waitrose/

@VanGoghsDog well! Small world!

My girls go to school there. I live in the nearby village beginning with Y.

You’re not a hairdresser are you?!

I once lived in the same village as Mary Berry!

@Nurgleturtle, we must live quite closeby .

@FrancesFlute sound like it haha i used to live in handsworth on lound road next door do sean bean then moved up the road where i lived next to blunket now live in crookes near the broomhill friery xD

We have a guy in Doncaster called the Donny Dancer,he as a radio and dances while strutting up the street,

buttcheeks Donttouchthat backofthebunty You must also remember Elvis Presley (real name) who used to sell the local newspaper?

@Bunnyfuller

I am not a hairdresser! I don't work locally, I don't have kids, so I don't know anyone at all!

Not near me, but I had a parent who was acquainted very casually with the Bonham-Carter family. Apparently even at 14, Helena B-C was stunning!

Bakedbrie Was she the lady behind the M25 bridge graffiti?

@Scrump21 either I live in the same area as you (and didn’t know about Stella!) or there are two blokes with owls on their mobility scooters 😂

Toxic terry 🤣🤣

"Gerry Blossom*

Oops- I see I have misunderstood the point of the thread. Scrolling upwards, I see it is about local characters rather than TV celebs etc Well, we had some interesting street theatre acts near where I live- a man on a tightrope playing a violin. And the Sand Labrador man- made dogs out of sand. The nuttiest had to be a horse puppet who "sang" along to a casette tape! (Think may be outing myself here though)

@chocolateneededrn I know the man, he marches up and down the prom and goes on the pier during the summer. Quite the entertainer, bless him.