The Colourful Characters of Waterford

dayshah · 29-04-2011 2:03pm

Dan133269 wrote: »

:D

Anyone remember the old man that used to sell children's toys (mainly those little round things on a stick where you blow them and they twirl round and round, with lots of different colours) outside the old Darrer's and where Dunnes is now outside City Square? Probably early 90's.

My mammy never got me one. I vowed that when I was older and earning money I'd buy one.

But now they are gone.

Terry Cotta · 29-04-2011 4:00pm

seanybiker wrote: »

Winnie the glue. Completely forgot about her. Dirty head on her

Was that yer one living out the old Kilmeaden Road? Used to scare me sh*tless.

seanybiker · 29-04-2011 4:36pm

Terry Cotta wrote: »

Was that yer one living out the old Kilmeaden Road? Used to scare me sh*tless.

Yeah that's her. Used to freak me out to haha.

marlin vs · 30-04-2011 12:43am

seanybiker wrote: »

He's fairly sound. Was talking to him up in the ronemore for ages one night

You won't be talking to him up there anymore Seany.

honeybadger · 30-04-2011 1:23am

is denny the pig rider still around aka the bar of soap as he was a goal keeper in the pubs leauge in his time aswell,,

Nolanger · 30-04-2011 8:21pm

Roen wrote: »

[*]Miller and Cashin

Harry Miller the docker?

niallo76 · 01-05-2011 10:50am

michael-really well spoken guy-fell in with the winos a cupla years ago-think he's dead around 5 years now

niallo76 · 01-05-2011 10:52am

what about that old guy,dressed in the clown suit.who used to have the puppets on a string-whats the story with him-i'd say he was around the town about 7/8 years ago

jimbojazz · 01-05-2011 12:09pm

Anyone remember the oul lad that used sing outside Darrers years ago......small, blue mac, peaked cap. He looked a bit like Norman Wisdom. Hadn't a note in his head.

Nolanger · 01-05-2011 7:19pm

Yep, he used to 'kick' people out of his spot e.g. charity collectors.

LuckyFinigan · 01-05-2011 8:42pm

Think most of the usual ones have been mentioned. A few others would be,

The minister,

Skin aka (my town),

That lad that used to always walk around wearing suit and would always say hello when you walked passed him, dont know if he's still around anymore.

There was this guy that used to dress up as batman I saw every now and then, remember seeing him at spraoi and just walking around town a few times. Came up to my friend one day and asked him did he want to be his robin. Very strange fella.

dayshah · 01-05-2011 8:46pm

LuckyFinigan wrote: »

There was this guy that used to dress up as batman I saw every now and then, remember seeing him at spraoi and just walking around town a few times.

Actually I know who you are talking about. He is actually a millionaire (maybe from construction or something) but lost the plot a bit after he saw a murder. He was never the same since.

Tragamin2k2 · 01-05-2011 8:49pm

if its the fella im thinkin of his name is dave something? wrote comic books aswell i think

Roen · 01-05-2011 9:15pm

Nolanger wrote: »

Harry Miller the docker?

I'm not sure, the two of them used to be out drinking on the streets all the time back in the 80's if that narrows it down.

seanybiker · 01-05-2011 11:04pm

Roen wrote: »

I'm not sure, the two of them used to be out drinking on the streets all the time back in the 80's if that narrows it down.

Twas Harry Miller

chelloveks · 02-05-2011 1:25am

The Old Lady with the Shaggy Dog in Ballybricken. She had some kind of shop with the most run down unfinished door I ever saw and my cousins said she sold sour milk. As a kid in the 60's she absolutely freaked me out when I saw her. She used to walk with this old sheepdog that hadn't seen a comb in its entire life and had better dreads than any Rasta I've ever seen!

Swissarmyknife · 14-05-2011 5:16pm

Hi,Great thread.and some great Characters mentioned.
One that sticks in my mind was "Skinny Fanning" Skinny used to sell fish in the town,he was small but you would hear his booming voice streets away from where you stood. His cry of "Fresh Mackerel" was legendary,and also his trademark "on the ball,on the ball" was even more so.
And he always had a kind word for us kids on our way home from school.

Rubberlegs · 20-05-2011 7:52pm

Yeah, great thread:D. I remember Michael, the very well spoken man with the beret, he sometimes used to wear a brown curly wig:). Jesus I'd forgotten about Monica, she'd some pair of legs, haha! I remember the little roundy man who used to sell the windmills outside Dunne's on the corner, but thought his name was Charlie. Shammy, I remember well. In the early 90s I remember a woman I knew as Mary, she was a wino, heavily pregnant. She used to sit on the benches in Red Square, with a man with straggly black hair. I used to chat to her a lot, as she came into the shop I worked in. Heard after she had the child in the grounds of a convent and it was taken off her, whether that was true or not. Also this guy Davy(?), kinda foreign looking, walked around with his hands on his head talking to himself.

calvin_zola · 22-05-2011 6:49pm

73Cat wrote: »

Also this guy Davy(?), kinda foreign looking, walked around with his hands on his head talking to himself.

greek guy, be in the bookies?

Rubberlegs · 22-05-2011 8:09pm

calvin_zola wrote: »

greek guy, be in the bookies?

Hmmm, don't think he's greek, think he's Irish, but definitely looks foreign. Though I could have that wrong. Haven't seen him in years, last I saw him up on Mayors Walk. Something makes me think his name is Davy Penkert, or similar. Used to be terrified when saw him coming, as heard he carried a knife, though that could have been BS...

Nolanger · 22-05-2011 8:42pm

73Cat wrote: »

Something makes me think his name is Davy Penkert, or similar.

Davy Singh?

seanybiker · 22-05-2011 8:47pm

Just seen on one of the lads Facebook pages that Johnny tierney died

poor fella

abouttobebanned · 22-05-2011 8:48pm

Nolanger wrote: »

Davy Singh?

Father of another luntic.

An Indian man and the grumpiest mother ****kka on the planet.

jayboi · 22-05-2011 8:56pm

i know hes not a real person and probably not colourful but what about the lad that keeps knocking on the window in fieldmaster hes been at that a good while now.

seanybiker · 22-05-2011 9:03pm

jayboi wrote: »

i know hes not a real person and probably not colourful but what about the lad that keeps knocking on the window in fieldmaster hes been at that a good while now.

haha I used to love that fella. Always hoped he would bust the window. If they only moved him back an inch he be flying

Nolanger · 22-05-2011 9:25pm

seanybiker wrote: »

Twas Harry Miller

Victim of the Waterford dockers' strike in the '80s that lasted the full decade. Sad to see people lose good jobs and go downhill so publicly.

Luckycharms_74 · 23-05-2011 9:53am

73Cat wrote: »

I remember the little roundy man who used to sell the windmills outside Dunne's on the corner, but thought his name was Charlie. Shammy, .

His name was Johnny Lyons AFAIK

. He had the windmills on the cardboard box. I always wondered if he ever sold any cause every day he had the same few on that box

marlin vs · 23-05-2011 10:09am

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

His name was Johnny Lyons AFAIK . He had the windmills on the cardboard box. I always wondered if he ever sold any cause every day he had the same few on that box

We used to call him Johnny Loin bones.

Rubberlegs · 23-05-2011 1:38pm

Nolanger wrote: »

Davy Singh?

Really not sure of the surname, but could well be considering he looked foreign. Dark wavy hair, and sallow skin...

marlin vs · 23-05-2011 1:54pm

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

Johnny Tierney? also I thought mocky was a scare tactic meself :P

R.I.P.

calvin_zola · 23-05-2011 4:37pm

seanybiker wrote: »

Just seen on one of the lads Facebook pages that Johnny tierney died poor fella

ah no, nice man, bed of heaven

thewhale · 28-05-2011 12:53pm

Great to hear all about the different characters from this thread, i'll throw in my own one, does anyone remember the lady that used to sit on the side of the road up from Corbally church, out by the saleens, she used to try stop all the passing cars with her stick and try on tell them her life story, to us she was known as Lily Shing Shang.

Finnbar01 · 28-05-2011 6:53pm

Seanybiker, anyone remember him? I think he was from Hillyview and he was mad into blaas and motorbikes.

seanybiker · 28-05-2011 8:08pm

Finnbar01 wrote: »

Seanybiker, anyone remember him? I think he was from Hillyview and he was mad into blaas and motorbikes.

He's an awful eegit that fella

seanybiker · 28-05-2011 8:51pm

Nolanger wrote: »

Victim of the Waterford dockers' strike in the '80s that lasted the full decade. Sad to see people lose good jobs and go downhill so publicly.

Never knew that. Poor fella. He seemed like a sound ould chap

marlin vs · 28-05-2011 9:44pm

seanybiker wrote: »

He's an awful eegit that fella

Ahh he's not too bad when ya know him,he's not the worst.:D

Soswozere · 30-05-2011 3:46am

thewhale wrote: »

Great to hear all about the different characters from this thread, i'll throw in my own one, does anyone remember the lady that used to sit on the side of the road up from Corbally church, out by the saleens, she used to try stop all the passing cars with her stick and try on tell them her life story, to us she was known as Lily Shing Shang.

Yep. She was a Dame. She would bang on the car asking the time. When she died, her dogs stayed by her side, one had died of hunger and the others were starving, yet the door was open.

Fighters Planet · 31-05-2011 3:52pm

Cant believe ye didnt mention:

Mr.Griffen, whose butchers sells no meat

Platinum2010 · 27-06-2011 7:27pm

Anyone know the mad wan who spits on cars?

Tragamin2k2 · 27-06-2011 8:44pm

mary 7up?

Platinum2010 · 27-06-2011 9:03pm

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

mary 7up?

im not sure of her name but she has a golden labrador

batm!ke · 05-07-2011 5:50pm

Platinum2010 wrote: »

im not sure of her name but she has a golden labrador

Has anyone figured out who this is? My girlfriend told me some crazy wan walking a Labrador spit on her car and I didn't believe her, I said yer woman probably had bad aim or somethin' but lo and behold about two weeks ago I was turning off the Cork Rd in the Punto and same wan turned and spat at the car! WTF!

Platinum2010 · 05-07-2011 6:17pm

batm!ke wrote: »

Has anyone figured out who this is? My girlfriend told me some crazy wan walking a Labrador spit on her car and I didn't believe her, I said yer woman probably had bad aim or somethin' but lo and behold about two weeks ago I was turning off the Cork Rd in the Punto and same wan turned and spat at the car! WTF!

I know where she lives , if your passing her house she accuses ya of stalking her or something , she's so damn aggressive , wonder why her brother ever lets her out tbh

Nolanger · 05-07-2011 6:37pm

Francie Duggan and his donkey?

seanybiker · 05-07-2011 6:58pm

Chap works for the corporation with the biggest curly amount of hair ever

MsBojangles · 05-07-2011 8:08pm

Finnbar01 wrote: »

The other daughter.. well the look she would give you when passing her by, would turn you to stone.

you sure you not on bout his sister?

giles lynchwood · 05-07-2011 8:58pm

seanybiker wrote: »

Chap works for the corporation with the biggest curly amount of hair ever

If he wear´s glasses his name is Shapes

seanybiker · 05-07-2011 10:11pm

giles lynchwood wrote: »

If he wear´s glasses his name is Shapes

Yeah that's him. Sound fella him.
Anyone remember the young fella white dude with the ginger fro. What a legend. Think he busked a bit aswell.

batm!ke · 06-07-2011 12:57am

seanybiker wrote: »

giles lynchwood wrote: »

If he wearÂ´s glasses his name is Shapes

Yeah that's him. Sound fella him.
Anyone remember the young fella white dude with the ginger fro. What a legend. Think he busked a bit aswell.

Think the Ginger Afro guys name was Colm Power r somethin like that, he was a Forum head AFAIK

PTH2009 · 06-07-2011 1:44am

giles lynchwood wrote: »

If he wear´s glasses his name is Shapes

Does he have a beard as well.

The Colourful Characters of Waterford

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