Local Characters

carith · Post by **carith** » Mon 09 Feb, 2009 4:19 pm

A chap called dave used to sell his stuff around Hunslet Belle isle and Middleton pubs and clubs in the eighties and nineties.

joanne13 · Post by **joanne13** » Tue 23 Mar, 2010 1:07 pm

Briggy wrote: Quoting Wiggy'what about rachael? the tramp from the market? my mother in-law once told me that during the war rachael was a beautiful woman,but lost her family and never recovered.' I remember Rachel. I'm sure your mother-in-law was absolutely right Wiggy. She looked as though she had been beautiful - high cheekbones and very graceful. She had a disconcerting habit of squirting selected passers-by with an aerosol - any kind I think, deodorant, hairspray, furniture polish etc. Anyone know what happened to her?Does anyone else remember the Scottish chap who used to wander the city centre (I saw him usually on Vicar Lane near the bus station,) shouting the odds and putting the world to rights. Sad to say, he actually talked some sense, albeit a bit extreme! I remember Rachel,she seemed to have a hatred for the police ,as she always called them copperknobs whenever they went past and they always got squirted with the aerosol can.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Tue 23 Mar, 2010 6:51 pm

What happened to the Big Issue seller who used to stand on the corner of Park Row and the Headrow? He always seemed very friendly and keen to engage people in conversation,then sell them a Big Issue.

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 11:09 am

stevief wrote: What happened to the Big Issue seller who used to stand on the corner of Park Row and the Headrow? He always seemed very friendly and keen to engage people in conversation,then sell them a Big Issue. I can remember when I was a kid ,an old lass called Cigarette Liz, used to see her outside the Whip Pub cadging fags in the early 50's. Also ,can some of the older contributors remember a bloke with no legs ,who was outside Trinity Church, Boar Lane? He would walk on 2 blocks of wood on his hands.He was a bit of a bad tempererd old sod.But who wouldn't be! This would be .late 40's ,early 50's?

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 12:37 pm

stutterdog wrote: stevief wrote: What happened to the Big Issue seller who used to stand on the corner of Park Row and the Headrow? He always seemed very friendly and keen to engage people in conversation,then sell them a Big Issue. I can remember when I was a kid ,an old lass called Cigarette Liz, used to see her outside the Whip Pub cadging fags in the early 50's. Also ,can some of the older contributors remember a bloke with no legs ,who was outside Trinity Church, Boar Lane? He would walk on 2 blocks of wood on his hands.He was a bit of a bad tempererd old sod.But who wouldn't be! This would be .late 40's ,early 50's? I think you the lady you referred to was known as Woodbine Lizzie.Mentioned on Page 2 of this thread andhttp://www.leedstapestry.org.uk/02a_tapestry.p ... &refNo=366

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 7:30 pm

uncle mick wrote: stutterdog wrote: stevief wrote: What happened to the Big Issue seller who used to stand on the corner of Park Row and the Headrow? He always seemed very friendly and keen to engage people in conversation,then sell them a Big Issue. I can remember when I was a kid ,an old lass called Cigarette Liz, used to see her outside the Whip Pub cadging fags in the early 50's. Also ,can some of the older contributors remember a bloke with no legs ,who was outside Trinity Church, Boar Lane? He would walk on 2 blocks of wood on his hands.He was a bit of a bad tempererd old sod.But who wouldn't be! This would be .late 40's ,early 50's? I think you the lady you referred to was known as Woodbine Lizzie.Mentioned on Page 2 of this thread andhttp://www.leedstapestry.org.uk/02a_tapestry.p ... &refNo=366 Yes uncle mick, that certainly sounds like her but on the link you provide it says she died in 1947. I was born in '42 and I can remember her after that date.I would have been only 5yrs old when she died and hardly able to bring her to mind at that age?

harehills-steve · Post by **harehills-steve** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 8:26 pm

stutterdogSure this has been mentioned somewhere on here before but this link on leodis has a photo and some comments about both of these characters http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

franco · Post by **franco** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 9:30 pm

Does anyone remember the burly transvestite news vendor who used to sit in a tiny wooden shed outside the Scotsman pub? This was around the late 70's early 80's. My teenage eyes were constantly drawn to his extensive range of adult magazines. Whitehouse,playbirds,Parklane and of course New Colour Cockade. I never had the courage to aproach this individual in an attempt to buy any Razz mags he was just too weird. Now thirty years later when i'm a bit more confident where are transvestite porno selling news vendors when you need them?

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 9:35 pm

harehills-steve wrote: stutterdogSure this has been mentioned somewhere on here before but this link on leodis has a photo and some comments about both of these characters http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL Yeah! Thanks H.Steve,they are both mentioned on this photo ,and I think it shows the man with no legs outside the church.I wonder what happened to him?

Crazy Jane · Post by **Crazy Jane** » Thu 25 Mar, 2010 10:35 pm

"What happened to the Big Issue seller who used to stand on the corner of Park Row and the Headrow? He always seemed very friendly and keen to engage people in conversation,then sell them a Big Issue. "Old punk, answers to the name of Rat? He leaves Leeds for a while sometimes, maybe even a few years, then comes back. He's been selling the Big Issue for about 15 years now!If he's not still in Leeds, you might see him around York if you're lucky.