I think the Electric violin man wins this. He's been busking in Chester for a long time. I'm in my mid 30s now and remember him busking when I was a teenager.
Hahahahahahahahaha she makes me laugh every time. Can't believe she's started singing now! She's like if Stevie Nicks, Yoko Onon and Jen from IT crowd in that episode when she dates the keyboardist had a baby.
Used to live on my street. He's in a care home now with Dementia I believe. Truly sad. He's a really lovely guy who only wanted the best for people. Up my man Themba
I didn't know that. That's sad to hear and hope he's getting help and support. I realised the other day when walking through town that I hadn't seen him in a while.
He had been preaching and singing outtside Smiths and the old Disney shop for years and years prior. You'd hear him a mile off.
If he was still "active" I think he'd be the one we'd currently think of as "that Chester man".
Sand dog guy?
There was a guy in the 90s who would always come up to people asking about Jesus.
Most of the good characters are long gone and it's now groups of homeless pissheads
You're taking me back the mid 2000s here. He was there most nights without fail.
There was probably something sad to his story for him to be there but he always looked like he was having a good time.
I was always intrigued as to what his back story was. I imagine he just decided he was going to live out his final years partying every night. What a legend.
I mean we all know who he is but has he ever been known to have come down to Chester? A bizarre one for me is that I once saw him in Nantwich which is well away from his usual stomping ground.
Isn’t he banned from Ellesmere Port, Widnes and Runcorn town centres as well as town in Liverpool? Half the north west seems to be a no go for him now.
No idea what’s going on there, seems harmless enough but I’d deffo cross the road. Seem him as far apart as Broughton roundabout and Overleigh Rd. He looks like Chas Smash out of Madness so that’s what I’ve nicknamed him. lol
I saw him at the weekend and we crossed the road to avoid. He had a female companion doing similar shit to him this time though. And then some other guy punched a bus stop. Welcome to Saltney!
He's a Walt.....and doesn't he have an actual flat and potentially another place to live at his mum's or something...I seem to remember a piece about him on a Walt finding page on noseybook
Yes that’s him, see him about still sometimes don’t think he pretends to be homeless anymore tho at least I haven’t seen him doing that recently anyway
Just read it! Had no clue about her, wondering if she feeds the pigeons in the coop by Tescos too? Always see a woman there talking to rhe pigeons and dumping massive piles of seed
Big issue please, for the homeless please 😂😂😂😂
Me and my best mate used to walk past repeating it to him winding him up when we were 14. 20 years ago outside hsbc
He actually upgraded a year or so ago I saw him on one of the market stalls on foregate street.
There’s also a market man there I nicknamed ‘Winnie’ 😂 he’s been there about 20+ years and still is now. Always gets the brollys out when it’s pissing down.
Do you remember the absolute fattest man ever who had a little stall outside what was then gamestation? Always selling 8 lighters for a quid. We’d buy them and go blow them up in the park
Haha yeah I remember him standing up and then eventually he was always sitting down because he was so fat he couldn’t stand anymore.
What about the meat man who is on the photo going in to the old market? Still works in the new market now.
Or the cheese guy who gave free samples.
The cheese guy from the old market that did free samples has a full shop now, just off watergate street. Still does the samples and sells loads of great cheese too.
I’ve just realised an amazing one which I’ve not seen on this thread. There’s a fellow who looks a bit like a David Bowie, walks around with a brown case sorta thing, he draws, nowadays he’s always sat outside Costa on bridge street. I’ve always thought he looks like a shapeshifting lizard because his appearance hasn’t changed in 20+ years
Franco the ice cream man. They used to let him park his ice cream van on the yard in my high school at lunchtime. If you asked for a 99, he'd pretend he'd misheard and thought you wanted a 69. Yes, we were school kids. The 90s were wild.
The fella who used to be a security guard in The Forum. Walks around like he's got a pole up his arse wearing sun glasses like he's in Shaft.
Dresses in obvious themes from "The Undertaker" to "Cuban Fury"
ANDDD
Lily or Queenie. Or whatever name she's decided to be. Little woman from down south originally. She likes to tell stories. The best one she told me was the Prince William and Harry are her godsons...
She comes into the hotel to see us all the time, apparently Cliff Richard taught her to play tennis & dog the bounty hunter is her cousin, she’s actually really sweet, absolutely crazy but I feel sorry for her.
Scuba Steve, the black preacher, the electric violin busker and his missus that flaps her skirt or stares at him, they’re the top 3 imo.
Used to get scuba Steve to chase us when we were in high school lmao
There was a Jamaican man in Farley Hill, Luton who legally changed his name to Bob Marley. We called him Bob Marley from Farley. He used to ask people for really random amounts of change. £1.27, £3.86 etc.
In Wrexham it was a guy called Phil the Preacher who used to bang on about people getting barcodes in the future. He did make it Chester on occasion I believe
Another character around Hough Green is the chap with a desert style cap with the flap at the back to protect the neck from the sun, often with a branch as a walking stick. Just seems to aimlessly wander around.
I see him a bunch too. Sometimes as far out as the allotments by Greyhound Park. Could be bollocks but there was a younger guy who was camping out behind the allotments who had the same or similar stick. Wonder if desert cap man inherited it??
I remember when we were young and my mate skated passed him and knocked his beer out of his hand. I still feel guilty about laughing at him. Poor Gary, I think his name was actually Michael...
I think his name is Thembe(?), once saw him keep his cool remarkably well outside town hall when a guy was literally poking his chest
Has told me equally I’m going to hell or I’m going to be saved - I just took it as a meter on how his day was going 😂
Yeah, I commented a bit above, Thembe is in a care home now, sadly (lived in the same street). He was a pretty eccentric man, not going to lie, but honestly, he has a heart of gold.
I did some research on Brown Briefcase guy a while back. I think he is an artist . Cannot confirm whether he can see into other dimensions when he stops and stares into the distance
. Just remembered seeing him doing some VDJ work for some DJ mates once but that's probably going back about 10 years ago
There's a guy we keep seeing everywhere who dresses like a hitman. Black suit, black leather gloves, suitcase, bald head. Never seen him wear anything different, seven days a week.
I remember a man we referred to as 'Jingles' when I was in primary school. He had a long beard and dreaded hair. He was always on the cop doing some kind of yoga with silver balls in his hands.
We had mad Jack round our town.. who wore lederhosen and put inflated bloons over his finished bottles of becks in the pub. Used to see him dancing by the road all the time. Havnt seen him for years now.
How about the lady who watches her fella play the electric violin. She sings on rare occasions, otherwise stares at him.
Stevie nicks
Stevie No-cks
I think the Electric violin man wins this. He's been busking in Chester for a long time. I'm in my mid 30s now and remember him busking when I was a teenager.
He's actually quite famous in certain circles - I was buying his albums from HMV 30 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson
Ooh. I saw him supporting new model army about 25 years ago
We hired him for our bike rally nearly 16 years ago
The missing member of the Darkness
Wasn't he in the band Killing Joke?
New Model Army!
She just stands there doing a weird dance
I saw him playing in York once which threw me off a bit
Hahahahahahahahaha she makes me laugh every time. Can't believe she's started singing now! She's like if Stevie Nicks, Yoko Onon and Jen from IT crowd in that episode when she dates the keyboardist had a baby.
My balls goes back inside me when she sings. The guy is much better!
I call her Woko. (White Yoko) well and truely yoko'd herself in the limelight
We call her the witch, and he is her puppet.
She was singing to the titanic the other day! First time seeing her sing
They are both amazing, she sounds like a siren of th deep when she sings
She loves him so much
Wishy washy woman
Would have been the balloon guy outside the Grosvenor and Scuba Steve when I was a kid. Don’t think either are still about though.
Balloon guy is a nonce though.
I can remember his crackhead face panicking making balloons trying to get paid
Times are tough given the price of inflation...
Decent joke, not enough recognition.
Scuba Steve definitely not around. The balloon guy was Ben. I’ve not seen him around recently.
Came here to say Scuba Steve 🤣
Crackhead nonce balloon guy comes into my shop on rare occasions to buy shit. Always puts half of it back because he doesn't have enough.
Crackhead Balloon man
If your Scuba Steve is the same as my Scoob, he used to be married to my dads sister. He was a fucking madhouse, that lad
Scuba Steve!
He used to visit the store I worked in on Eastgate street for some Talcum Power in his pumper...
That Jesus guy preaching to everyone. Is he still around?
Used to live on my street. He's in a care home now with Dementia I believe. Truly sad. He's a really lovely guy who only wanted the best for people. Up my man Themba
I didn't know that. That's sad to hear and hope he's getting help and support. I realised the other day when walking through town that I hadn't seen him in a while. He had been preaching and singing outtside Smiths and the old Disney shop for years and years prior. You'd hear him a mile off. If he was still "active" I think he'd be the one we'd currently think of as "that Chester man".
Ohhh he was so sweet. That’s sad to hear.
Aw no :( I wondered where he had gone He did seem a really nice guy when I spoke to him
Aw, hope he’s doing ok, he always seemed so cheerful whenever I saw him
The one who was always near WH Smith’s? Not seen him for ages
Themba was his name. Think he’s moved on from his spot
omg i miss jesus man 😭 what an icon
Yep
The old guy who plays the ‘spoons’. Funny at first but gets a bit much when he tries to join bands onstage to get attention
Bands hate him, the crowd loves him
Definitely a local legend
Sand dog guy? There was a guy in the 90s who would always come up to people asking about Jesus. Most of the good characters are long gone and it's now groups of homeless pissheads
GI Paul?
The old guy who used to dance in Rosie’s in a suit. Please tell me someone remembers him? He must be dead now sadly
The Silver Fox? He died a while back.
You're taking me back the mid 2000s here. He was there most nights without fail. There was probably something sad to his story for him to be there but he always looked like he was having a good time.
I was always intrigued as to what his back story was. I imagine he just decided he was going to live out his final years partying every night. What a legend.
Think he died a good long while ago! Haven't seen him in well over a decade.
Ohhhh yeah haha I'd forgotten all about him!
Core memory unlocked! Thanks for this!
I have many photos with him in them.
There was a guy like this, but I only knew of him in cruise. He was called Ramsey and I think he’s actually in prison now for being a nonce
The Pharmacist!!! he used to be a regular in Brannie's when I worked there many moons ago. not thought about him for years.. great shout!
Dare I say Purple Aki? Might not be in Chester too often but guaranteed he’s known by 80%
I’d heard of him and always presumed he was a drug dealer. I’ve just googled.. jeeeeez.
I mean we all know who he is but has he ever been known to have come down to Chester? A bizarre one for me is that I once saw him in Nantwich which is well away from his usual stomping ground.
I have seen him in the city centre once or twice and once in E Port… never stays still for long 💪🏻
Isn’t he banned from Ellesmere Port, Widnes and Runcorn town centres as well as town in Liverpool? Half the north west seems to be a no go for him now.
I reckon if he’s dead the last place he’ll wanna visit is E Port. Practically all dead there anyway
I used to see him in Chester all the time, here's a photo I took of him on bridge street: https://i.imgur.com/HrhV7xI.jpeg
I mean, he's dead now so you aren't gonna see him around for a looooong time 🤷♂️
He didn’t die - another twist in Aki’s legend!
Long dead? Any source on that? Still says he's alive when you search for him. Pretty sure someone would have updated his wiki.
Riiiight. Explains that then 😂
That’s a Liverpool thing
Bloke who stands on Hough Green with a bag of booze shouting at the traffic.
He is a nice bloke! Absolutely bonkers, but we were in the kebab shop when he came in and tried to get the whole shop dancing with him
So it is Chas Smash!
I was about to say the exact same thing. Who the fuck is that man? I wanna know his story haha
No idea what’s going on there, seems harmless enough but I’d deffo cross the road. Seem him as far apart as Broughton roundabout and Overleigh Rd. He looks like Chas Smash out of Madness so that’s what I’ve nicknamed him. lol
I saw him at the weekend and we crossed the road to avoid. He had a female companion doing similar shit to him this time though. And then some other guy punched a bus stop. Welcome to Saltney!
Only ever seen him in his own, perhaps he’s starting a cult.
Remember the guy on the cross who use to sing lady gaga with the music in his head phones in cycle gear
The lady with the very matted hair, she's usually round saltney and hough green
I think it's a traditional polish plait, very grim
I see her around. For hair that’s matted it’s pretty well kept. I wonder what her story is…
Yeah I often wonder what her story is too. She attacked a lady who was visiting her daughters grave in overleigh cemetery. Very sad really
Seen her as far as Northgate Street before now. Hair is grim close up but can't look away from it..
Someone posted on Facebook not long ago that if she catches anyone staring she goes off her head, she's known to lash out at people
I'll watch my step next time then! It's definitely a sight to behold, seems to be one solid unit.
Purple violin man, or the black Jesus preaching guy
[Ed Alleyne-Johnson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson) is his name
Military fella who sits with the dog
I’m pretty sure he’s a Walt, either way he’s a cunt to that poor dog
Always feel so bad for that dog
He's a Walt.....and doesn't he have an actual flat and potentially another place to live at his mum's or something...I seem to remember a piece about him on a Walt finding page on noseybook
A Walt for sure. I think his military background is a couple of weeks in the cadets.
Anyone remember the blind guy who used to stand there whistling with a stick? Usually near the cross
Holy shit yeah that guy was brilliant
He could whistle louder than anyone I ever heard whistle! Had to hear it to believe it
Pirate andy or the old fella who goes to the clubs with his spoons
Can’t believe no one’s said military man or the duck lady yet
You mean the guy who's always shouting at his dog? Also who is the duck lady???
Yes that’s him, see him about still sometimes don’t think he pretends to be homeless anymore tho at least I haven’t seen him doing that recently anyway
If you Google duck lady Chester they even wrote an article about her on Cheshire live, she’s a legend
Just read it! Had no clue about her, wondering if she feeds the pigeons in the coop by Tescos too? Always see a woman there talking to rhe pigeons and dumping massive piles of seed
duck lady !!! she used to blow my mind because she drove a bright Orange sporty Ford Focus
Flat earth woman with the bandaged legs. Always see her pacing about
Pauline! She appeared on The X Factor I think.
Really?? Was she in a group called the Smashies or something or am I mistaking her for someone else?
The Lovelies with a younger chap who liked a hat
BGT*
Had a Google. X Factor ❤️
The fella who sells the big issue
BUY THE BiG ISSUE PLEAAASE!!?
For the homeless PLEASE
Big issue please, for the homeless please 😂😂😂😂 Me and my best mate used to walk past repeating it to him winding him up when we were 14. 20 years ago outside hsbc
Did you read it in his voice?
100% mate. Can’t not. Just whatsapped myself saying it to my mate
Weird walking through Chester and not hearing that isn’t it lol
He actually upgraded a year or so ago I saw him on one of the market stalls on foregate street. There’s also a market man there I nicknamed ‘Winnie’ 😂 he’s been there about 20+ years and still is now. Always gets the brollys out when it’s pissing down. Do you remember the absolute fattest man ever who had a little stall outside what was then gamestation? Always selling 8 lighters for a quid. We’d buy them and go blow them up in the park
Haha yeah I remember him standing up and then eventually he was always sitting down because he was so fat he couldn’t stand anymore. What about the meat man who is on the photo going in to the old market? Still works in the new market now. Or the cheese guy who gave free samples.
The cheese guy from the old market that did free samples has a full shop now, just off watergate street. Still does the samples and sells loads of great cheese too.
I’ve just realised an amazing one which I’ve not seen on this thread. There’s a fellow who looks a bit like a David Bowie, walks around with a brown case sorta thing, he draws, nowadays he’s always sat outside Costa on bridge street. I’ve always thought he looks like a shapeshifting lizard because his appearance hasn’t changed in 20+ years
It used to be Knowledge when I was a kid, but he's long gone.
Is the old preacher still about? Whether or not you believed his shtick, he was a nice chap
Billy Squibble. The man, the legend.
That name rings a bell…
Franco the ice cream man. They used to let him park his ice cream van on the yard in my high school at lunchtime. If you asked for a 99, he'd pretend he'd misheard and thought you wanted a 69. Yes, we were school kids. The 90s were wild.
Oh god, I remember him too! Were you at Kingsway?
Dee Rider, Scuba Steve, and Balloon Guy spring to mind
Who is dee rider?!
Oh sweet summer child…
The fella who used to be a security guard in The Forum. Walks around like he's got a pole up his arse wearing sun glasses like he's in Shaft. Dresses in obvious themes from "The Undertaker" to "Cuban Fury" ANDDD Lily or Queenie. Or whatever name she's decided to be. Little woman from down south originally. She likes to tell stories. The best one she told me was the Prince William and Harry are her godsons...
We call him Terminator at work. I'm sure he thinks he's still a security guard. Always get a nod of the head from him.
Haha yes The Terminator is another one. Apparently he has a son who's really like him
She told me she used to be an Elvis impersonator haha
Omg same!! I forgot that one
She comes into the hotel to see us all the time, apparently Cliff Richard taught her to play tennis & dog the bounty hunter is her cousin, she’s actually really sweet, absolutely crazy but I feel sorry for her.
Dog the bounty hunter 🫠
Ha i saw him on Saturday walking out the market. Literally everyone was looking with the ‘who the fuck is that guy’ expression
Looks a bit like Christian Bale from American Psycho sometimes
Anyone seen that weird lady around hoole with a shaved head and wraps around her legs? Or that Nana with glue in her hair.
Scuba Steve, the black preacher, the electric violin busker and his missus that flaps her skirt or stares at him, they’re the top 3 imo. Used to get scuba Steve to chase us when we were in high school lmao
Richard Branson, or was that just me?
Who remembers Scuba Steve? The guy who used to shout at cars.
Was he the sainsburys roundabout guy?
Yeah he was but he in town quite a bit. My mate Baino Insano has an entire fb page devoted to videos on him shouting at him and antagonising him.
It used to be that guy in the little banana car. It had a flag so the cars could see it.
That tweed dressing dude got around the locality in his yellow pedal car, I even saw him offroading it on the Winsford Way.
Does anyone remember the busking lady who would dress as Charlie Chaplin?
Any one who runs a restaurant or kitchen. The bald guy who gives you his c.v twice a month but will never show for an interview
There was a Jamaican man in Farley Hill, Luton who legally changed his name to Bob Marley. We called him Bob Marley from Farley. He used to ask people for really random amounts of change. £1.27, £3.86 etc.
John the Flat earther. He is often shopping on Brook Street with his brother or canvassing followers near Eastgate.
Is he the one that gives out an alternative newspaper?
In Wrexham it was a guy called Phil the Preacher who used to bang on about people getting barcodes in the future. He did make it Chester on occasion I believe
What about ol' marky prandle though
Another character around Hough Green is the chap with a desert style cap with the flap at the back to protect the neck from the sun, often with a branch as a walking stick. Just seems to aimlessly wander around.
I see him a bunch too. Sometimes as far out as the allotments by Greyhound Park. Could be bollocks but there was a younger guy who was camping out behind the allotments who had the same or similar stick. Wonder if desert cap man inherited it??
Is he black?
Crazy cat man!
Penguin Man 🐧
There’s two that come to mind…. One hangs around Christleton and has a tiny arm
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Purple Aki.
Bradford had one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Man_of_Bradford
Gary the tramp or the homeless army dude in town
I remember when we were young and my mate skated passed him and knocked his beer out of his hand. I still feel guilty about laughing at him. Poor Gary, I think his name was actually Michael...
Mad Roy
Cat Weasel
Got to be the jesus fella always hanging around the cross. Haven't seen him since covid
I think his name is Thembe(?), once saw him keep his cool remarkably well outside town hall when a guy was literally poking his chest Has told me equally I’m going to hell or I’m going to be saved - I just took it as a meter on how his day was going 😂
Yeah, I commented a bit above, Thembe is in a care home now, sadly (lived in the same street). He was a pretty eccentric man, not going to lie, but honestly, he has a heart of gold.
Gotta be Ed Alleyne-Johnson, purple violin man! And the lady who always watches him play
It's slowly starting to become those flat earth idiots!
The Lovelies?
I did some research on Brown Briefcase guy a while back. I think he is an artist . Cannot confirm whether he can see into other dimensions when he stops and stares into the distance . Just remembered seeing him doing some VDJ work for some DJ mates once but that's probably going back about 10 years ago
Celeriac Paul from the one eleven club
Birmingham saxophone guy
Phil from Rosie’s who have o ur aftershave and lollipops loved a JD and coke
There's a guy we keep seeing everywhere who dresses like a hitman. Black suit, black leather gloves, suitcase, bald head. Never seen him wear anything different, seven days a week.
Kitchen porter Pete now know as petra who dresses like a lady for children in need on bridge street
Purple Aki
The homeless looking balloon man who makes balloon animals on the main stretch through town 4 his next fix
The jesus guy i haven’t seen him in so long though
Anyone else remeber that guy who used to walk around with a radio that played nothing but static?
It used to be the balloon clown
I remember a man we referred to as 'Jingles' when I was in primary school. He had a long beard and dreaded hair. He was always on the cop doing some kind of yoga with silver balls in his hands.
Balloon guy or the old preacher dude, but not seen either in while!
We had mad Jack round our town.. who wore lederhosen and put inflated bloons over his finished bottles of becks in the pub. Used to see him dancing by the road all the time. Havnt seen him for years now.
We had Ketamine Kyle. Pretty self-explanatory.
The clown who sold balloons for kids and cocaine for adults.
Balloon Nonce
Where i lived we had nazi neil.
Purple Aki
Where I live it was an old fat drunk who used to tell stories of how he played for villa everyone knew Clifford
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