Re: Unforgettable Characters. Have You Known Any?
Some 40 yrs ago when visiting the wife in Guys we would stop on the corner of Newcomen Street and Crosby Row at the gate of one of the tiny houses opposite Guys entrance . A chap would be standing at his gate with a bugie on his shoulder. We often talked because my daughter 2 at the time would love to see the bugie. The chap would always leave his front door open and when it was time the bugie would fly back into the house.Re: Unforgettable Characters. Have You Known Any?
We used to have a character in the 80s, called Albert, he would often be found in the city , shouting " move it" to traffic and tourists alike, quite frightening, but harmless really, he once found an old reel of bus conductors tickets, and could be seen charging visitors to go on the bar walls!, the police used to pick him up and, rather than sending him to the cells, they'd take him to tadcaster, about 6 miles away, and he had to walk back,! He was very well known and if he went into a pub ( assuming he wasn't barred ) a huge cheer would go up from the pubgoers, he was a minor celebrity around here..Re: Unforgettable Characters. Have You Known Any?
A local drunk with a goat on a lead.Re: Unforgettable Characters. Have You Known Any?
Re: Unforgettable Characters. Have You Known Any?
In my days in the employ of “Grace Brothers” way back in the early 1960s I had a wonderful mentor. He was a buyer of the old school, smart, savvy, inscrutable and my role model, a veritable polymath of his day. An intellectual, raconteur, chef, writer, poet, idealist, artist. What was he doing in such a job as buyer. The answer was while he was being all these other things he drifted into this well paid comfortable job .............and stayed. He introduced me to art, music, literature, theatre, theology and much more. I became a family friend stayed in contact with him for 50 years until his tragically early death.Re: Unforgettable Characters. Have You Known Any?
I have posted this before, but I couldn't resist posting it again given the topic of unforgettable people.Re: Unforgettable Characters. Have You Known Any?
Here is another one I wrote earlier.Thread Tools | |
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