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Does ANYONE remember THIS guy ?
- Thread starter Ernest
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Bill Cassidy's tie up
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Absolute disgrace it was allowed to be demolished, the scrumpy straight from the barrel on bar. Loved the place Leo Sayer playing guitar in bar although we all knew him as Jerry great memories
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Does anyone remember the bloke who used to wear a red leather mini-skirt and matching jacket and high heels in the Steine in the early 1970s?
Seagulls Downunder
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I think most people new Horace as Burlington Bertie and I seem to remember my Grandmother telling me he was a dustman, not sure if that was true but most of the kids from that era used to say the same.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
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one guy around town that seems evergreen, well his hair does anyway goes by the name of 'Rebel' often seen walking the strrets, and sometimes at the big aways. big boots, army trousers, Albion scarf and blue or green hair, hasn't changed in decades. (literally)
I 'member im down the end of Stoney Lane wearin ' is monocle and bowler.
Proper DANDY 'n everyfink.
Gaw blimey, he wont arf bonkers!
He worked as a cleaner at a Worthing factory.
Horace was a cleaner at Marylebone optical company. He swore like a trouper and when asked by young scamps, " why do you dress like that mate" he would reply that it was from a bygone era that they would know nothing about. I remember him throwing some young thugs bike across the road once when they started on him. Worthing had a few characters in the old days.
Now it's just winos and the like and I make no judgement here on the Vegsters and Catfishs of this world.
Does anyone remember the old boy who used to walk around Worthing town centre in the 70's tapping out rhythms on road signs with his walking stick?
Sometimes he'd have a biscuit tin hung around his neck and would beat it with a spoon. Another of those harmless old nutters who seem to have disappeared from the scene.
Sometimes he'd have a biscuit tin hung around his neck and would beat it with a spoon. Another of those harmless old nutters who seem to have disappeared from the scene.
SIMMO SAYS
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I remember a couple of very old dears in the late seventies who you's d to frequent the London road area. One was a very well dressed lady with a brolly who used to walk in the centre of the main Beaconsfield/London road between the cars glaring at all the motorists. How she never got run over I'll never know. The other one we used to call the 'bag lady'. She used to have a plastic bag that she would 'crack' over her head at anyone in her way.I once came out of the old TSB bank in Oxford Street to see her come up behind a load of foreign students giving them a mad glare. They all jumped into the road when she whacked them with her plastic bag. Happy Days!
Alonso Moseley
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I used to live next door to him in Russell Sq. His name is Tony, Tony Green.
Tricky Dicky
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I used to see him all the time round about where that photo was taken - I lived within sight of that spot. He usually had a bike and I think came from Worthing. Had a relatively normal job by all accounts, and was supposedly not a very nice bloke.
bassking
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exactly as i remember him, kept me entertained on a sunday outside that pub.
Prince Monolulu
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What we need right now to lift the spirits.
Worthingite
Sexy Pete... :D
Oh. Hold on a minute. This was back in the 70's/80's. You're a Grandad...
Rumbled old son....
luppers
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I remember Horace in the early 60s when he used to ride a small motorcycle/moped and when the law came in inforcing crash helmets he changed to a pedal cycle,can twe get some more characters like him please or would todays yobs be too much for them.
mickybha
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mickybha
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