NEW! The Hermits, Upholland, Lancs.
I believe this was an actual brother and sister who lived in a sprawling detached house opposite Abbey Lakes in Upholland. The garden was completely overgrown and, as kids, we would dare each other to run up the path and knock on the front door. Personally I never got more than half way before I bottled out. They were eventually put in care and the house was found to be rat infested and full of human faeces. There was a rumor that a mint-condition Rolls Royce Silver Cloud from the 30's was found in the garage, but not sure how true this was.
Submitted by Mike Hewitt
Mad Mary, Huddersfield
Early terrets sufferer before we knew what it was. Mad Mary was a polish ( I beleive) concentration camp survivour who used to swear at folk around Hudds town centre from the late sixties to sometime during the eighties also well known for sitting outside a
house on Somerset Rd on a deck chair and giving the Agincourt-Archers salute to the occupiers of passing No 30 busses. one of her finest moments was to some how gain entrance to our school speach day and during a slight hesitation in the heads speach, suggest the school should be burnt down loudly from the stalls after which she was gentle guided out of the town hall in a torrent of expletives by a couple of senior members of the staff. Had to love her after that.
Submitted by The Journal-ist
Drag Prince, Halifax
There is a guy in the town of halifax that dresses in drag but makes no attempt to look like a woman. He kind of looks a bit like Ozzy Osbourne - but in the eighties. He has blonde higlights and stubble. He does a great line in skirts and handbags. He had this strange grin that suggested he knew something we didn't.
Submitted by wolfboy
Chicken Bones, Blackpool
Chicken Bones would wander the prom in the summer hunting out boxes of Fried Chicken, people had thrown away. He'd find one and feast on the discarded scraps and bones. Supposedly lived in quite a nice house.
Submitted by Jethro Bampton
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