Encounters with famous or infamous people

I meet Adam Woodyatt aka Ian Beal off Eastenders and Max Bygraves when I was younger nothing like the name droppers on here I am afraid!! Ian Beal was serving pints in my local pub as he knew the landlord so he helped out behind the bar f om what I can remember we had a brilliant night early morning Max Bygraves very pleasant and cheerfull :cheers::cheers:
 
I went to school with Gary Barlow's brother, and Bob Carolgees runs a candle shop at the local craft centre
 
That must be Lady Heyes!

Here is a roll call of the famous & not so famous peeps who live or have lived in our village of Lymm: Famous People.

Just had Adam Partridge [antiques expert & auctioneer] round to give us valuations on some of my better crap. Most surprising for me was a signed artist proof Lowry print which I picked up for £40 now valued at £1000-£1500 and it "could do a lot more on the day because it is a lesser known image".

That called for a strong cup of tea.:D
 
Max Bygraves was a little bit mean!

I may have mentioned this before but in the early 60's I was 'The Boy' on a Tonibell ice cream van. I remember us stopping outside MB's house in Canons Drive, Edgware, resplendent with two Bentleys in the driveway, and his son Anthony scampering up holding a sixpenny piece. "I'll have a Big Treat" said he, our most expensive lolly. Up scampered MB, who snatched the money out of my hand and said "He'll have a Tupenny Lolly like everyone else!"
Tight sod...

I also had a very enjoyable evening chatting with Alan Brazil in his Ipswich pub when I was on assignment in the town. He told me all about his experiences and amazing earnings in the early days of big football money, and also the size of his share of his first transfer fee!

Another lovely evening was spent in Bushey in the company of Kenneth Connor of 'Carry On' fame. He was great company, but skint! He told me that none of the team received a penny in royalties from the films, the BBC having bought the rights outright and all the actors had been paid 'by the day'.
Barbra Windsor did OK though...
John
 
I've met Ronnie Barker, he was filming Open All Hours a few yards from where I use to work and I would go and watch during my lunch and I got to meet him. Met Jack Charlton in a Pizza Hut with his wife. They were having lunch before heading off to the races.
 
derathe said:
Stood at the bar in what was my local pub lounge eating peanuts when a young girl.. about 4/5 yrs came and stood next to me and proceeded to watch each peanut from bag to mouth in what appeared an almost starving way, so i offered her one, at this point a voice from a table in the corner stated " your obviously feeling generous, i`ll have a pint!". It was Martin Clunes. He was sat with his wife, family and dogs all awaiting their lunch order....he did buy a round too... nice bloke!
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Was in Bridport 2 years ago looking at the Saturday market stalls and leaned over to pick something up to look at it. This big guy leaned over me and said, " I'll have that" Looking around to give him some of my caring attitude it was Martin Clunes. I believe he lives or has a place at Powerstock a few miles away.
 
Forgot to say I know Glen McCrory the boxer does that count??? Lol use to drink with him!! When I met MB I was only young and I think he might have felt sorry for me as I had a full body plaster on.and no one had seen a then.:D
 
Forgot I met Geoff capes at ingliston royal show ground think it was a truckfest he was the worlds strongest man at the time and his words to me was ,your a big boy😡😡😡😡then got hold of my belt buckle and lifted me up,his other celeb at that show was Noel Edmunds got a shock how tiny he is
 
I went to The Bickershawe Pop" Festival in the early 70's, (What do you mean you don't remember it!) to see Uriah Heep and Rod Stewart. I got so off my face on Newky Brown & cider I only found out three years ago Donovan topped the bill!

I also played table football a couple of years later with David Byron, Heeps' lead singer, Lee Kerslake, drummer and Gary haltom, Lead singer with The Heavy Metal Kids and later "Gary" of Auf Weidersein Pet". I was on Garys' side. It was at the "Hard Rock" a venue in Old Trafford, owned by DLT. I never met him and it later became a B&Q, whose premises I went on to recent to by tools and stuff.
 
Used to help a friend out at Rock City in Notts and had after gig drinks with quite a few famous names but the most memorable was a fascinating night with Lemmy Kilmister talking about WW1 the mans knowledge is immense and also how he can drink Burbon without any obvious effects is frightening:cool:
 
Back in my motor trade days, we sold Ferrari, Porsche Maserati Lotus and Bentley so dealt with a few well knowns although in the main business was conducted 3rd party through agents.

One of the nicest guys I have met and a few times was Herol "bomber" Graham the boxer from Sheffield, If you met the bloke you would never believe he was a British and European champion boxer ....very eloquent , well mannered he saved his monkey business for the boxing ring .

A good pal lives in Sheffield and we were off for a ride into Derbyshire one day this lass appears all gushing thats noce and like a spare part at a wedding i was stood at the roadside for 10 mins ....a lad turned up looked familiar but thought no more of it ....anyway off we went and returned ...the girl was bbq ing next door ..so we intimated a sausage sandwich would be good ....anyway invited round turned out the girl was Joanne from Human League the fella Phil oakey ....again nice people and a laugh

Jon Pertwee was a nice bloke....but I met Linda Lusardi at Doncaster Motor show I was working there. The paps were following her about and I guess 60 -70 amateur photographers.....anyway we had our picture took ...it was incredible like lightening going off for seconds the flashes of cameras ...how do you cope with this i asked ? She smiled and sayid it comes with the job ....She was a really sweet girl and seemed real genuine

Channa
 
A good few years ago me and a friend went to see the Nolans at a nightclub called Castles not far from where I used to live and we met them afterwards Lol I also met Billy Pearce at Blackpool OMG these are a few more years ago than I care to remember 😢😳
 
Annsman said:
I went to The Bickershawe Pop" Festival in the early 70's, (What do you mean you don't remember it!) to see Uriah Heep and Rod Stewart. I got so off my face on Newky Brown & cider I only found out three years ago Donovan topped the bill!

I also played table football a couple of years later with David Byron, Heeps' lead singer, Lee Kerslake, drummer and Gary haltom, Lead singer with The Heavy Metal Kids and later "Gary" of Auf Weidersein Pet". I was on Garys' side. It was at the "Hard Rock" a venue in Old Trafford, owned by DLT. I never met him and it later became a B&Q, whose premises I went on to recent to by tools and stuff.
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I never knew the Hard Rock was owned by DLT, do you know how he got to be involved ? Saw Can there, the front man looked like that spook in "The Ring", hair covering his face the whole time. I remember you couldn't dance there because your shoes were stuck to the floor because of spilt beer, vomit & p!ss. Mind you, in those days I didn't need to move my feet, I just threw my hair about like I had been tazered up the ar5e.
Oh, them were the days. :rolleyes:
 
The wife used to have regular dealings with Ken Morley ( Reg Holdsworth ) who doesn`t live that far from us and used to do his accounts.

He is nothing like the character he portrays on the telly :dance:
 
if people mean DLT Dave Lee Travis ..met him too ! another celeb that was at Doncaster motor show one year...nothing particularly remarkable or unusual about the bloke. A good friend of mine is a theatrical agent , manages Paul Daniels, Tony Bennett ..and so on ...He was also a director of Doncaster Rovers football club ....and asked me to go and see no less than Billy Bremner,twas a business thing ...as a kid a hero what a disappointment in real life ...obnoxious .( shouldnt speak ill of the dead but it is true). At the time my daughter was dancing in the west end and Paris and I was so upset gave her the lecture if she ever spoke to people the way i was, if she made it big time i would break her legs.

I used to work with Mick Bates another Leeds uTD team player a lovely chap very down to earth ......answering his phone was fun ....Is Mick there ? ...whos is calling please Eddie Grey.

Met Frank Bruno in bradford when he was in panto another nice bloke. Lad I was with at the time is 6ft 4 black ex u19 England basket ball player ...lovely lad .....Bruno giggled like he did on tv and Said "" you is a big lad" |Eddie dwarfed Bruno lol ........our soirees into Chapeltown Leeds are a good tale around the campfire

Channa
 
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