Quote: LS13 "Damo . You might know of him . He is now around 50 yrs old . 5'10" ish , dark hair , and lots of boils on his face and neck .'" I’ll ask my dad later on and a few other LS28ers. Personally the only characters I’m aware of on this thread are Eric and that bloke who sells the big issue outside the sports café these days. This terry sound like quite a bloke though. Here is a few faces you may recognise from the pubs around here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUABN_Cs9A My mothers an even better dancer than me

Quote: LS13 "Damo . You might know of him . He is now around 50 yrs old . 5'10" ish , dark hair , and lots of boils on his face and neck .'" I’ll ask my dad later on and a few other LS28ers. Personally the only characters I’m aware of on this thread are Eric and that bloke who sells the big issue outside the sports café these days. This terry sound like quite a bloke though. Here is a few faces you may recognise from the pubs around here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUABN_Cs9A My mothers an even better dancer than me

I wonder how this lot are gettong on then..

Now that brings back memories!!!!!

I gave him a fiver once. He looked like he was going to hug me.

Oh yes.

Were you wearing a hoodie?

He did surprisingly well for himself considering his modest beginnings.

Has anyone mentioned or seen that guy years ago who used to have Headphones on and stand in the middle of the pedestrian crossings where mcdonalds is at bottom of briggate doing funky dancing!!

And there was this old geezer who used to come into yates's alot and never buy a drink but used to do old style dancing to modern songs? he had a white moustache i think

The Headingley Bin lady deserves a mention on this thread. Found her via this facebook group! - www.facebook.com/pages/The-Headi ... 3792197605 This city never fails to amaze me with its characters

The Headingley Bin lady deserves a mention on this thread. Found her via this facebook group! - www.facebook.com/pages/The-Headi ... 3792197605 This city never fails to amaze me with its characters

Could not stand the bloke.

I know he did lots of good fund raising but I was with my grandma as we were walking past him. She decided she wanted to give him some money. Being a 80yr old pensioner she wasn't rolling in money and gave him the change she had. He threw all the copper coins at her literally saying he didn't want that. Made her upset and alot of self control to just walk away

She's been mentioned a lttle earlier "Woodbine Lizzie",but anyone whow rembers hers must be at least 80 or 90,she was on the go pre war and 1940s.
There is a famous photo of her stood outside the Whip

Are you Damo
Are you Damo
Are you Damo in Disguise!!
Are you Damo in Disguise!!

Yeah I do see where you’re coming from. I sometimes look in the hats where homeless people collect their money and it normally contains a collection of 2ps. But it all adds up at the end of the day and Danny should have never done what he did to your Gran.

I stopped and chatted to a street entertainer playing with a violin in one hand and a devil puppet in the other. It was only the other day and I gave him 10p and he was grateful. I wanted him to go and do his street entertainment next to chritian preachers who I’ve just walked past who were going ‘GOD IS YOUR SAVIOUR’. It totally made my day seeing god and the devil on the street!

Edit and here's a picture of the guy -

There used to be this guy who always rollerskated everywhere backwards around Burley and Hyde Park, I used to always see him going down the hill of Royal Park Road going down from Woodhouse Moor.

There's a guy who I thought had Tourettes who used to walk around campus at Leeds Uni sometimes shouting and swearing at everyone and I've seen him in other parts of town, he's only small but permanently angry and hurls obscenities at everyone he sees. I got to know one of the security guards at Leeds Uni quite well and when I mentioned this guy to him he said he's well known to all the guards and to the police, he's a Falklands vet who saw some brutal stuff and ended up gone in the head, spent the late 80s and early 90s in prison and has been unemployed, friendless and mentally ill ever since. Sad story.

This genuinely made me