The Big Boo
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Let's get a thread on past legends and see how many we can come up with.
One name per post only and I 'll start with:
Wellington
One name per post only and I 'll start with:
Wellington
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The Iron Duke ?
Minilad
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I think the thread begins and ends there.
Wellington. An utter legend
One for Birmingham area bashers
Jed
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Sudbury (aka Richard Cawthorn)
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Tysley Bill
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Plug! lol!
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"Top Hat" he was known as- unemployed geezer who looked about 10 years older than he actually was.
How about:
THE GREBS
Southy and John
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Whizzer
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Ah yes, long live Jed.... and that wonderfull full length greatcoat he always wears.
Has he still got the coat with about a million patches on?
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Has he still got the coat with about a million patches on?
In the past 20 years or so, I've seen the duffel coat upgraded for a new version twice I think. I don't think the current one has any patches on it yet.
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Give it time !!
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He's moved on from the army surplus greatcoat then - which as I recall he wore all year round.
Minilad
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He did indeed. And in summer didn't everyone else know it !
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Don't say he's still about? Surely not?
How about:
The Bedford Bricker
How about:
The Bedford Bricker
Toad
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The Leighton Buzzard Buzzard !!!!
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For us Birmingham neds.....
MGM 'Marston Green Muppet'
Cleared in 47's for haulage on 47708 or something stupid like that !!
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For us Birmingham neds.....
MGM 'Marston Green Muppet'
Cleared in 47's for haulage on 47708 or something stupid like that !!
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If you mean Jed, then yes; spotted at New Street a couple of weeks ago complete with obligatory duffel coat still in quite good condition
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The Leighton Buzzard Buzzard !!!!
Roarer basher wasn't he?
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The Buzzard was Rancid.
Other rancid dudes from the 70's/ 80's era include:
Gruntle F**k Pig- Grantham
The Romford Gravedigger- err Romford
The Hog- Reading
Pete Cufflin- used to dress like Dick Emery's Bovver Boy sketch
Soup- Dudley aka Dudley Zoo
Whatever his name was from Blackpool who used to keep breaking his nose- he had a right Hooter on him.
Coventry Tramp
Harry Glitz- Manchester
Sale- err "Sale, get a Wash"
Other rancid dudes from the 70's/ 80's era include:
Gruntle F**k Pig- Grantham
The Romford Gravedigger- err Romford
The Hog- Reading
Pete Cufflin- used to dress like Dick Emery's Bovver Boy sketch
Soup- Dudley aka Dudley Zoo
Whatever his name was from Blackpool who used to keep breaking his nose- he had a right Hooter on him.
Coventry Tramp
Harry Glitz- Manchester
Sale- err "Sale, get a Wash"
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If you mean Jed, then yes; spotted at New Street a couple of weeks ago complete with obligatory duffel coat still in quite good condition
Right, time to come clean........
In the eighties I have been a Jeds Ned going on his 'Family Rail Card' for a leap
His famous quote to one or two neds, 'do ya fancy a leap to Padd, get two more and we will come back on M61'
50 to Padd for one back for £1.50 in them days, no complaints me think....
Jed's most loyal ned was a chap called Mud I think ??
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Just thought of another dubious one from days past....
A baglette called 'Electric Head'..... done 87's
Anyone remember ???
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Yep, shocking.
Wouldn't have minded a dabble with that Toni Scammel though.
There was another bird too called Liz- she wasn't much cop like.
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Ahh, Big Boo, you have got me thinking now.......
Toni Scamell, Leamington/Kenilworth
Liz, Wolverhampton, went around with Big Baker for a while I think ??
Here we go, West Midland neds as I remember them, no insult intended, just how I remember these guys being refered too/called.
Me, Toad......Big Baker, Little Baker, Fat Rob, Shuff, Smurf, Sharf, DIC, Nash, Hutch, Porky, Green Sleeves, Beaky, Steven Stone (is always valid), Ruddock,
Yestergen, Stourbridge Plebs, Pip, Mud, Moog, Kirk, Baby Kirk, Posh Sutton Neds,MGM, Cox.......
Being lead around by Jed, Alan Bayliss, Colin Moss, Colin Moss's mate who looked like Brian May !!, Rancid George.....
My god, we had some pretty decent engines on WMPTE Cards and MID's !!!
Toni Scamell, Leamington/Kenilworth
Liz, Wolverhampton, went around with Big Baker for a while I think ??
Here we go, West Midland neds as I remember them, no insult intended, just how I remember these guys being refered too/called.
Me, Toad......Big Baker, Little Baker, Fat Rob, Shuff, Smurf, Sharf, DIC, Nash, Hutch, Porky, Green Sleeves, Beaky, Steven Stone (is always valid), Ruddock,
Yestergen, Stourbridge Plebs, Pip, Mud, Moog, Kirk, Baby Kirk, Posh Sutton Neds,MGM, Cox.......
Being lead around by Jed, Alan Bayliss, Colin Moss, Colin Moss's mate who looked like Brian May !!, Rancid George.....
My god, we had some pretty decent engines on WMPTE Cards and MID's !!!
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that's the one.
I remember the two Bakers and another kid with curly hair that used to go up Scotland.
Brummie lads I knocked about with were the generation before- late 70's, early 80's. Taylor, Bingley, Woody etc
Colin Moss and Rancid George were fckin Neds man. Remember Bayliss too like.
The last time I did Scotland was in '86 and went with the Wycombes.
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Bob Bexon from Sleaford was good value as well.
Always dodging the "Grip" with his 3D Ticket.
Always dodging the "Grip" with his 3D Ticket.
The Bradford Bricker? Did the same man get Tony Blair's PR agency to change it from the Bradford Bender?
Or should we now call him the "bradford man of no discernable sexual orientation".
Alive and well and still big in the CFPS last I heard.
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Fred the Skinhead.
In a compo on WHL with some mother with her 13 year old girl twixt her and Fred. Fred decides his gonads need rearranging and a bit of nail mediated abbrasion for half an hour or so. Hilarious.
Or should we now call him the "bradford man of no discernable sexual orientation".
Alive and well and still big in the CFPS last I heard.
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Fred the Skinhead.
In a compo on WHL with some mother with her 13 year old girl twixt her and Fred. Fred decides his gonads need rearranging and a bit of nail mediated abbrasion for half an hour or so. Hilarious.
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if u knew Fred Lowe so well- then you would know the Bedford Bricker.
he "came out" about 6 or 7 years ago tho'.
He was always called "the bender".
Biggest shock since freddie mercury then.
Last I heard of Fred on the electric internet was that he was driving syphons in Spain.
What was that fat bearded welsh syphon basher called?
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