| Old Swansea characters 20:05 - May 1 with 17843 views | Gowerjack |
Mrs Gowerjack and I were down the Mumbles earlier and bumped into Red Heather the Micheal Foot lookalike who once accosted Geoff Capes in Swansea market because of his support for South African fruit..
Got us talking about other strange characters we used to see regularly....
Joe the Boxer from the Tenby
Stinky Pete the most honest man in town
The fella that used to hand out Biblical tracts outside the market
Hank !
That woman with the bow legs that used to love a fight when she'd had a drink
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:19 - May 1 with 9697 views | morningstar |
I think i may have asked this before, but can anyone else remember the crazy vicar that used too stand at the front of the North Bank early to mid 70's screaming his head off at the players for most of the game? |  |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:22 - May 1 with 9689 views | centrestandswan |
Lennard from Penard always carried a radio on his shoulder turned on very loud. There was Benji lived up the Clase never did a days' work until they got him a job in the then DVLC as a messenger nearly killed him, always to be found in the Eagle pub'.
Good to know Heather is still about very committed was Heather.
The God guy was always to be seen in Morriston tidy chap he was. [Post edited 1 May 2017 20:24]
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:25 - May 1 with 9674 views | morningstar |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:22 - May 1 by centrestandswan |
Lennard from Penard always carried a radio on his shoulder turned on very loud. There was Benji lived up the Clase never did a days' work until they got him a job in the then DVLC as a messenger nearly killed him, always to be found in the Eagle pub'.
Good to know Heather is still about very committed was Heather.
The God guy was always to be seen in Morriston tidy chap he was. [Post edited 1 May 2017 20:24]
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Is she the one that used to walk around town with carrier bags full of 'socialist worker'? | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:26 - May 1 with 9652 views | centrestandswan |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:25 - May 1 by morningstar |
Is she the one that used to walk around town with carrier bags full of 'socialist worker'? |
I think so member of the Communist Party. | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:28 - May 1 with 9646 views | morningstar |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:26 - May 1 by centrestandswan |
I think so member of the Communist Party. |
Bless her, i'm amazed she's still around! | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:28 - May 1 with 9640 views | monmouth |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:22 - May 1 by centrestandswan |
Lennard from Penard always carried a radio on his shoulder turned on very loud. There was Benji lived up the Clase never did a days' work until they got him a job in the then DVLC as a messenger nearly killed him, always to be found in the Eagle pub'.
Good to know Heather is still about very committed was Heather.
The God guy was always to be seen in Morriston tidy chap he was. [Post edited 1 May 2017 20:24]
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Really pleased to see that the Eagle, Wilkie, Kings Head and Fords Club still seemed to be going when I came down that way last week. All haunts of my yoof. |  |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:29 - May 1 with 9635 views | Swanjaxs |
Peter Singh and the crabstick man you could toss for double or quits 🖒 |  |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:32 - May 1 with 9617 views | Swanjaxs |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:28 - May 1 by monmouth |
Really pleased to see that the Eagle, Wilkie, Kings Head and Fords Club still seemed to be going when I came down that way last week. All haunts of my yoof. |
Treboeth boy me, Eagle regular till i emigrated to Tycoch 🖒 used to venture up the Raven too when i felt like living on the edge for a night 👊 | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:39 - May 1 with 9581 views | morningstar |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:29 - May 1 by Swanjaxs |
Peter Singh and the crabstick man you could toss for double or quits 🖒 |
I'm sure the fvcker had a double headed coin! Came in the Pantygwydr one Friday night and won against about 5 or 6 of us one after the other! | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:42 - May 1 with 9566 views | monmouth |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:32 - May 1 by Swanjaxs |
Treboeth boy me, Eagle regular till i emigrated to Tycoch 🖒 used to venture up the Raven too when i felt like living on the edge for a night 👊 |
Ha. We used to go in the Raven in our blazers from Penlan. | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:45 - May 1 with 9551 views | Swanjaxs |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:42 - May 1 by monmouth |
Ha. We used to go in the Raven in our blazers from Penlan. |
Must be a old Penlan RFC boy then 😉 | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:49 - May 1 with 9539 views | exiledclaseboy |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:28 - May 1 by monmouth |
Really pleased to see that the Eagle, Wilkie, Kings Head and Fords Club still seemed to be going when I came down that way last week. All haunts of my yoof. |
Used to spend most Sunday nights in the Wilkie during my formative drinking years. If we kept quiet in the corner they'd let us stay for the lock in too. |  |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:50 - May 1 with 9534 views | exiledclaseboy |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:42 - May 1 by monmouth |
Ha. We used to go in the Raven in our blazers from Penlan. |
You had blazers? How quaint. | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:52 - May 1 with 9515 views | Dr_Winston |
Crabstick guy is still around. He came into the Bridge End Inn in Birchgrove on Easter Sunday.
Rockin Gwyn
Tattoo Sheila |  |
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| Old Swansea characters on 20:52 - May 1 with 9514 views | Swanjaxs |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:49 - May 1 by exiledclaseboy |
Used to spend most Sunday nights in the Wilkie during my formative drinking years. If we kept quiet in the corner they'd let us stay for the lock in too. |
A lock in at the Wilkie! 😮 | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 22:00 - May 1 with 9386 views | builthjack |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:19 - May 1 by morningstar |
I think i may have asked this before, but can anyone else remember the crazy vicar that used too stand at the front of the North Bank early to mid 70's screaming his head off at the players for most of the game? |
I think his name was Eldon |  |
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| Old Swansea characters on 22:17 - May 1 with 9343 views | monmouth |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:50 - May 1 by exiledclaseboy |
You had blazers? How quaint. |
We had class. | |
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| Old Swansea characters on 23:00 - May 1 with 9282 views | epaul |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:52 - May 1 by Dr_Winston |
Crabstick guy is still around. He came into the Bridge End Inn in Birchgrove on Easter Sunday.
Rockin Gwyn
Tattoo Sheila |
Used to have the odd pint in there when I lived up the Gwalia 20 odd years ago |  |
| The hair and the beard have gone I am now conforming to society, tis a sad day
The b*stards are coming back though |
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| Old Swansea characters on 23:01 - May 1 with 9282 views | waveydavey |
| Old Swansea characters on 22:17 - May 1 by monmouth |
We had class. |
The only blazer I saw in Penlan was the head's car on fire. |  | | |
| Old Swansea characters on 08:57 - May 2 with 9071 views | Nogginthenog |
The Swansea Yank.
That black fella Denver who used to frequent Castle Street snooker hall, and is commonly referred to in local snooker parlance, ie nominate the Denver rather than the black. Not very pc these days.
Terry Purdew.
Tiger, who was a bus conductor. |  | | |
| Old Swansea characters on 09:00 - May 2 with 9066 views | TheFranchise |
| Old Swansea characters on 08:57 - May 2 by Nogginthenog |
The Swansea Yank.
That black fella Denver who used to frequent Castle Street snooker hall, and is commonly referred to in local snooker parlance, ie nominate the Denver rather than the black. Not very pc these days.
Terry Purdew.
Tiger, who was a bus conductor. |
Which Terry? |  | | |
| Old Swansea characters on 09:06 - May 2 with 9058 views | Scotia |
| Old Swansea characters on 20:52 - May 1 by Dr_Winston |
Crabstick guy is still around. He came into the Bridge End Inn in Birchgrove on Easter Sunday.
Rockin Gwyn
Tattoo Sheila |
His name is Eric, biggest hands I've ever seen, he's a decent bloke.
Anyone remember the "make up woman" from Clase / Morriston she wore an anorak, was covered in make up and used to ask people where she could get a bus to New York etc? Mid eighties I'd have thought.
And the guy with Tourettes who used to be in the quadrant, he looked like captain birdseye, he called my mate a cock once. | | | |
| Old Swansea characters on 09:33 - May 2 with 9039 views | PapaLazarou |
There used to be a website, possibly set up by one of the old posters on ja.net dedicated to old Swansea characters. Such as the blue coat/"penny please" guy who used to stand on the bridge by Parc Tawe.
Can anyone remember this site? I'm sure somebody posted a cached version of the website a few years ago. |  | | |
| Old Swansea characters on 09:41 - May 2 with 9030 views | dickythorpe |
Neville Mead, still on the pop and wandering off to the Treetops club when he was in the same Morriston hospital ward as my late Grandpa.
The "50p for a cup of tea" blue anorak guy used to be in the Uplands as well.
When you walked past without saying anything he'd always say "thank you very much anyway"  |  | | |
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