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Old Swansea characters 20:05 - May 1 with 17327 viewsGowerjack

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

Anyone remember any more?

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Old Swansea characters on 20:19 - May 1 with 9303 viewsmorningstar

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 9295 viewscentrestandswan

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.
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Old Swansea characters on 20:25 - May 1 with 9280 viewsmorningstar

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.
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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 9258 viewscentrestandswan

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 9252 viewsmorningstar

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 9246 viewsmonmouth

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.
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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 9241 viewsSwanjaxs

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 9223 viewsSwanjaxs

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 9187 viewsmorningstar

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 9172 viewsmonmouth

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 9157 viewsSwanjaxs

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 9145 viewsexiledclaseboy

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 9140 viewsexiledclaseboy

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 9121 viewsDr_Winston

Crabstick guy is still around. He came into the Bridge End Inn in Birchgrove on Easter Sunday.

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Old Swansea characters on 20:52 - May 1 with 9120 viewsSwanjaxs

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 8992 viewsbuilthjack

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 8949 viewsmonmouth

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 8888 viewsepaul

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 8888 viewswaveydavey

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.
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Old Swansea characters on 08:57 - May 2 with 8677 viewsNogginthenog

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.
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Old Swansea characters on 09:00 - May 2 with 8672 viewsTheFranchise

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?
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Old Swansea characters on 09:06 - May 2 with 8664 viewsScotia

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.
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Old Swansea characters on 09:33 - May 2 with 8645 viewsPapaLazarou

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.
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Old Swansea characters on 09:41 - May 2 with 8636 viewsdickythorpe

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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Old Swansea characters on 09:44 - May 2 with 8628 viewsLoyal

https://ianbone.wordpress.com/swansea/

Nolan sympathiser, clout expert, personal friend of Leigh Dineen, advocate and enforcer of porridge swallows. The official inventor of the tit w@nk.
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