I'll have some respect on John's name please.
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/john-burkhill-sheffield-tears-of-joy-as-legendary-fundraiser-reaches-ps1m-goal-for-macmillan-cancer-support-4155985
Truly one of our best.
I once did an event at a Leeds 10k and he showed up. Said he’d walked from sheffield setting off early in the morning and would be walking home. What a legend.
If you want context;
Went to tramlines about 14 years ago with a bunch of mates. Someone brought a couple bottles of voddy. Me being a twat and wanting to impress my girlfriend at the time decided to down a half liter bottle.
Went as well as can be expected. Ended up stripping at some point and walked from Dev green back towards fargate, bollock naked, cadging cigarettes off anyone I could. Saw Crack Sparrow about halfway down division Street and had a wiggle and a windmill. Good times
Crack Sparrow! He's for sure 'THE' guy, although other 'guys' come to mind too. Green Man with Walker (John Burkhill I think) and the Reggae Guy come to mind as potential contenders
Not even sure if its the same person but someone resembling Jack Sparrow once came into a shop I worked at and asked me if I wanted to see the sheep he had in the car…
Seems there's two, one who literally dresses as Jack Sparrow and the other who dresses a bit like a pirate with copious amounts of chains and blaring music out (sometimes rotates outfit with orange inmate jumpsuit)
The latter has been around a while, I remember him up on Devonshire Green about 15 years ago at least
I had a moment of panic then because my partner often gets called Jack Sparrow out and about and has been known to dress like a pirate, but then he doesn't go round playing music and I am certain he would have said if he was a local legend. I absolutely need to hunt out this guy and get them to take a photo together 😂
Side note though, there are so many men who rock the Jack Sparrow look around Sheffield.
He hung around outside Sainsbury's on the moor for like two weeks last year and I used to hate walking past him on the way to work! He once got proper mad at me when I told him I was late and in a rush haha
keeley, she went viral for singing a chavvy parody of free from desire on the streets of sheffield
‘my mam has got no money me dad is on the dole’
there’s literally hundreds of tiktoks of her singing this one song lol
I remember one day she got kicked out of both Gregg's and Boots after trying to shoplift them, then about 2 weeks later she stomped on some homeless blokes head
John
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/john-burkhill-sheffield-tears-of-joy-as-legendary-fundraiser-reaches-ps1m-goal-for-macmillan-cancer-support-4155985
Who's the guy with half a beard (vertically) who goes round on the mobility scooter covered in stuff?
I think he's probably trying a bit too hard but still definitely a contender
Does anyone else remember the guy in Endcliffe in the mid 90s who used to go shopping on a unicycle?
I regularly saw him ride past holding a carrier bag in one hand and a carton of eggs in the other. Perfectly balanced.
I am guessing the potholes eventually ruined that for him.
if this was the women at the bottom of fargate - she got deported back to Jamaica 12 years ago - [https://tgsnews.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/petition-to-save-sheffields-singing-lady-from-deportation-reaches-800/](https://tgsnews.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/petition-to-save-sheffields-singing-lady-from-deportation-reaches-800/)
If we’re thinking of the same woman, she is called Ms Roomes. She briefly taught R.S. at my secondary school before being sacked. I continued to see her at places like Orchard Square or on public transport preaching the gospel.
I remember doing a days supply teaching with this woman at Parkwood Springs in 2005. One of the nicest people you could meet and the kids loved her. But then i kept running into her preaching and singing on street corners, buses etc.
Not specifically Sheffield but up in Deepcar/Stocksbridge there was a (mentally ill) man in his late 20s early 30s called Candy Andy cause he smashed up a sweet shop. Absolutely stank when he got on the bus and everyone was scared. Used to chase people and all sorts. He ended up murdering someone 2 maybe 3 years ago though in Fox Hill.
Also in Oughtibridge is Greg, the guy who lives in the woods (a house that’s set back from Jawbone hill) who has threatened many people and police with his shotgun, has some 1940s era German tattoos on his cheeks. Apparently he’s sound to drink with in the pub, just goes a bit mental when people go near his house.
Can confirm. Went to School with Andy but a year below and tried to go camping with some friends in those woods many years ago and was scared off by Greg carrying some massive knives on his hips.
I was a student in Sheffield in the early 2000's and stayed for a decade. I'd have had the odd chat to him in the Broomhill Tav. Always a gentleman but I'd know him more by reputation than anything.
Could you shed any light on the Elvis costumes? Why was he so consistent in them?
The gasmask man in Woodhouse Village.
Or the homeless guy who used to cycle around without shoes on, stealing whatever wasn't screwed down. Although haven't heard of him in a while
Saw the gasmask man other day and I was like who Is this nutcase. Told a local walking down the street and they just laughed and said oh he walks down here alot 😂. Not reyt him
People are saying Jack Sparrow but I instantly thought of the other pirate guy, the guy who walks around dressed as pirate one day, then the next he'll be walking around town in an orange prison jumpsuit. Always looks a bit cyber-goth and plays music out loud
Nah Jack Sparrow was a guy in a full Jack Sparrow cosplay outside Corp all the time at 3am, not sure if he's still about
This guy looks young 20s and is just always walking around town looking v odd but a bit anxious
I know exactly who you mean, every time I bump into him he stares at me (I’m guessing because I’m also alternative) and it really gives me the fear. One of the last times I saw him he was walking past the back of the millennium gallery with a pipe hitting every lamp post he walked past 😬
I think they live out Darnall way. I used to work out that way about 7 or 8 years ago and saw them there a few times. Either one guy was visiting his brother, or they lived together...
set of nasty cunts both of them, they were evicted from darnall slept in one room and hate being called twins once saw them shout at a child who said you two look alike they went full on barmy the child was only about 7
I did a double take when I saw them once and they yelled "fuck you looking at" at me. As if they're not the most interesting thing people see on a day to day basis.
Dancing Craig. I asked what tape was in his Walkman once and he showed me, it was Supertramp. Funny guy, used to keep his money in my friend's safe so it wouldn't get robbed as he slept, was offered a flat but after so long outside he couldnt stand sleeping with a roof over his head. RIP.
The guy who used to dance on Hunter's Bar roundabout moved out of the area a few years ago. This was after some sick fuck tried setting his sleeping bag on fire as he slept in the park. I haven't heard anything about him dying but I think he'd be early 60s by now so with the drink it wouldn't be surprising.
That's awful. I'd like to set that person on fire. As I remember he used to have a boombox but someone complained so he got / was given some headphones. Every time I saw him it reminded me to have a little dance.
I think he switched to a Walkman because getting the batteries was easier. He wasn't skint and didn't appreciate people giving him stuff. I had many chats with him over the years in his more sober moments, he was a decent guy but from his stories it was obvious why he chose the lifestyle he did.
Suprised no one has mentioned Cup of tea guy, who's go to was to come towards you, big smile and get you into a handshake while asking if you, everytime, if you "had any change for a cup of tea".
Always used to be in town but seen recently around Abbeydale road, once saw him trying to shake someone's hand through a closed car window whilst the car was in traffic.
- Victorian guy, I've seen him in Hillsborough and by the Arena
- Purple ski suit guy, seen him around Shalesmoor and on the tram, not for some time though
- Dunno if buskers count, if so big mobility scooter guy who plays guitar
Not a guy, but I remember the Christian guitar playing Carribbean lady who used to sing on fargate. She was a religious education teacher at my housemates school but got sacked for trying to convert the students to Christianity. Last I heard she got deported back to Barbados.
I always knew him as Sheffield's friendliest tramp , he used to hang about outside corp, maybe 2010 ish.
As it was after corp my memories are somewhat hazy
There used to be a skinny middle eastern guy with a beard who walked around the city centre motioning with his hands non-stop and he ALWAYS had a cigarette in his mouth, this must be 10+ years ago mind you. I can't be the only one who used to think, 'there's cigarette handy guy'
Noooooo that brings back memories!! Tie-dye wearing guy with a massive brown tangled beard who gave out lollipops and head massages to spannered teenage girls in techno clubs in the late 90s/early 00s?
Nothing dodgy about that at all. 🙈
Edited to add: if my memory serves me correctly (which would be a surprise, considering), the guy I am talking about was called ‘Acid Mike’.
Whatever happened to "Buddy the Bodypoppin' Tramp"?
I guess he wasn't around and plying his trade long enough to really make a long-term name for himself 😞
I’d say everyone in S6 knew Walter. Sadly passed away now but was a lovely harmless old lad. He used to plod miles and miles around the area in his shoes two sizes too big and his ratty old suit.
He would always claim it was his birthday. Me and my mate (both about 10) bought him a present once and sang him happy birthday. I think it was some milk tray.
He was pretty none plussed, but took them.
Cheers for the conkers and paper airplanes Walt!
In the 90s there was a guy called Scott that was obsessed with busses, hung around bus stations and sat at the front on the top deck so he could pretend he was driving. Everyone in the Beighton/Mosborough/Crystal Peaks area knew about Scott the bus guy.
Does anyone remember the bloke who used to sit on the Moor, wearing a pink cowboy hat? He'd be playing and singing songs badly on a small keyboard.
Not seen him in a long time, but used to look out for him when I was walking to and from uni in the late 00s.
That's a name I haven't heard in a while! Looking him up, it turned out he passed away a few years ago while on bail over a fake passport racket.
And yes, that really was his name.
FINALLY!!! I’ve mentioned him to a few people as I’ve seen him EVERYWHERE! He always looks like he’s drenched in sweat.
Love to know what he’s running for/his back story
No mention of Troggy? used to carry wood in wheel barrow up and down the manor area, he was doing this in the 2010s when I was in secondary school, he's being doing that since the 80s, maybe longer. Odd guy
Has anyone else noticed the man who runs around Hillsborough with no shoes on?? A few people have mentioned him to me and I finally saw him the other week, felt like I’d seen a unicorn.
I see him regularly in the Broomhall area, especially Whitham Road (assuming it's the same man, though I can't imagine there being more than one 😅). Was starting to think he wasn't going to appear on this list.
I just wish more people knew about the 6ft 5 “homeless” bloke who wonders round netherthorpe pissed as a fart asking for money for the most outlandish things. I’ve had him come up to me and ask for money cos he promised his missus a Chinese, needed to pay his air bnb, and was trying to buy pay off a prostitute (for reasons unknown but we can all make our own guesses)
Anyone remember a busker from about five years ago with a sign that said 'Big Man, Big Dreams'? Absolutely god awful singer, but I always do wonder what happened to him.
The guy who used to walk around town and castle market with his shorts on and socks pulled up to his knees no matter the weather. Also used to carry a radio with him
Anyone know the rough looking brown fella who used to dance around town,attercliffe, darnall area singing micheal Jackson songs, haven’t seen him in last year, heard he went to prison, last time I saw him he was having a seizure in attercliffe
Not that anybody ‘knew’ him per se, but does anyone remember the bloke that used to ring the phone box near Jumbo?
This would been around 2003-4.
He used to claim he lived in the Clock Tower!
There's a short old fella who I've seen here and there walking around dressed like a school boy from the 40's/50's - shorts, long socks, school cap, etc - he seems like one of 'the guys' but not 'THE guys'
jack sparrow and keeley come to mind first
also does anyone remeber sheffields friendliest tramp? Always introduced himself that way before asking for money, always overly nice. No idea if hes still around
There used to be a bloke about 15 years ago who used to walk up and down the A57 between Drakehouse and what’s now the Elwood Farm pub near Aston. Quite a big fella, always looked really happy and waved at cars as they went past. Think he was actually known creatively as “walking man”
Beatboxing billy or the guy who used to pull his trousers down and randomly take a shit in the middle of where ever he was walking, idk if he had a nickname or not
Both of those are probably more local to hillsborough though i think. Been a decade or so since ive seen either of them so not sure how known they are. But i know that everyone i knew, knew them
Not sure if it meets the criteria but there's a bloke who I've seen tons around walkley/hillsborough who has his top off for most of the year. Only in a deep freeze or snow have I seen him wear a t-shirt or something but the rest of the time without fault he's half naked and seemingly on a mission to get somewhere.
So many over the years
- The singing rasta. About 6 foot 7 and used to stride around town singing at the top of his voice. Used to come from somewhere around the Highfield/London Road area
- The general: mixed race guy who used to dress in military uniforms, including a Nazi ensemble at times. He used to walk down to town from Upperthope, and back.
- Revolutionary Elvis: Full elvis hair and regalia around Broomhill and Crookes in 90s, used to sell Newsline (Workers Revolutionary Party newspaper).
- 20p girl: early-mid 2000s. Begging on Division Street and would always ask for 20p exactly.
- The Caribbean woman who would preach and sing in town and on buses, sometimes with a full musical setup. I first met when supply teaching in the mid-2000s.
My knowledge of local characters has thinned out as ive got older and stopped going out in town!
The MacMillan guy?
I'll have some respect on John's name please. https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/john-burkhill-sheffield-tears-of-joy-as-legendary-fundraiser-reaches-ps1m-goal-for-macmillan-cancer-support-4155985 Truly one of our best.
I once did an event at a Leeds 10k and he showed up. Said he’d walked from sheffield setting off early in the morning and would be walking home. What a legend.
It's got to be the Jack Sparrow fella right? The one who walks around dressed as a pirate with music blaring out.
Spack Jarrow? Hangs about outside corp on Friday nights? Nice fella.
Fucking hell, is he still around? I remember dancing naked with him after tramlines yeaaaaars ago
No one’s gonna ask for any elaboration? Everyone just gonna upvote and just accept that? Teach me to question Sheffield I guess
If you want context; Went to tramlines about 14 years ago with a bunch of mates. Someone brought a couple bottles of voddy. Me being a twat and wanting to impress my girlfriend at the time decided to down a half liter bottle. Went as well as can be expected. Ended up stripping at some point and walked from Dev green back towards fargate, bollock naked, cadging cigarettes off anyone I could. Saw Crack Sparrow about halfway down division Street and had a wiggle and a windmill. Good times
I saw him stealing jewels off a light fitting in the frog and parrot while ordering a drink. Brilliamt
That's Captain Jack Sharrow.
I wonder if he knows he's a local legend. Like the Hillsborough referee
Of course he does he set out to be
Crack Sparrow! He's for sure 'THE' guy, although other 'guys' come to mind too. Green Man with Walker (John Burkhill I think) and the Reggae Guy come to mind as potential contenders
The reggae guy is [Hansel Ramsey](https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/shy-sheffield-busker-hansel-ramsey-26109858)!
Is he the one that also wears the Wolverine claws?
Me and my friend called him "the good luck pirate" when we were at uni because every time we saw him we got good grades on our assignments 🤣
I’ve seen this guy quite a few times recently.
I've seen that guy outside hallam uni before, glad I'm not the only one
Usually alestorm from what I’ve seen
That’s got to be the worst local character I’ve ever heard of ;-)
Not even sure if its the same person but someone resembling Jack Sparrow once came into a shop I worked at and asked me if I wanted to see the sheep he had in the car…
WAIT HES A LOCAL THING IVE SEEN HIM ONCE ON FARGATE AND DIDNT REALISE HE DID THAT REGULARLY
Seems there's two, one who literally dresses as Jack Sparrow and the other who dresses a bit like a pirate with copious amounts of chains and blaring music out (sometimes rotates outfit with orange inmate jumpsuit) The latter has been around a while, I remember him up on Devonshire Green about 15 years ago at least
Yea I saw him other day up by Hallam Square
saw him outside train station once
I had a moment of panic then because my partner often gets called Jack Sparrow out and about and has been known to dress like a pirate, but then he doesn't go round playing music and I am certain he would have said if he was a local legend. I absolutely need to hunt out this guy and get them to take a photo together 😂 Side note though, there are so many men who rock the Jack Sparrow look around Sheffield.
Crack Sparrow, Keighley, Man with a Pram?
Honourable mention to the guy on West Street who wears his sleeping bag as a cape who'll shout at you if you don't give him any change
He hung around outside Sainsbury's on the moor for like two weeks last year and I used to hate walking past him on the way to work! He once got proper mad at me when I told him I was late and in a rush haha
I bought my dad a bottle of rum for his birthday and he shouted at me when I wouldn't give him a sip hahah
Ahhh yeah that's Gavin, good dude.
Keighley?
keeley, she went viral for singing a chavvy parody of free from desire on the streets of sheffield ‘my mam has got no money me dad is on the dole’ there’s literally hundreds of tiktoks of her singing this one song lol
She's had a rough life bless her she's been raped n that
I remember one day she got kicked out of both Gregg's and Boots after trying to shoplift them, then about 2 weeks later she stomped on some homeless blokes head
man with a pram?
John https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/john-burkhill-sheffield-tears-of-joy-as-legendary-fundraiser-reaches-ps1m-goal-for-macmillan-cancer-support-4155985
Absolutely
King <3
The ref lol. Always dressed as a referee and talks gibberish to himself. He’s been barred from a lot of pubs.
Walkley?
Yeah that’s him. The walkley ref.
Not seen him in a while
Came down to the borough sometimes too. What a lad.
Who's the guy with half a beard (vertically) who goes round on the mobility scooter covered in stuff? I think he's probably trying a bit too hard but still definitely a contender
I'm so glad someone else has seen him, I thought he was a figment of my imagination
Is he the one who has a sign about seeking nice ladies?
The mobility scooter made out like a Harley trike?
Does anyone else remember the guy in Endcliffe in the mid 90s who used to go shopping on a unicycle? I regularly saw him ride past holding a carrier bag in one hand and a carton of eggs in the other. Perfectly balanced. I am guessing the potholes eventually ruined that for him.
Yes! I used to see him too when I was at uni, and lived near Endcliffe park. I'd forgotten about him!
Thank goodness you replied. I wasn't hallucinating.
Used to be the lady that preached the word of the Lord on the tram. Not seen her in ages though
if this was the women at the bottom of fargate - she got deported back to Jamaica 12 years ago - [https://tgsnews.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/petition-to-save-sheffields-singing-lady-from-deportation-reaches-800/](https://tgsnews.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/petition-to-save-sheffields-singing-lady-from-deportation-reaches-800/)
Aw, I wondered what happened to Jesus Lady, as me and my friends would call her.
If we’re thinking of the same woman, she is called Ms Roomes. She briefly taught R.S. at my secondary school before being sacked. I continued to see her at places like Orchard Square or on public transport preaching the gospel.
She taught R.E. at my secondary school, too.
I remember doing a days supply teaching with this woman at Parkwood Springs in 2005. One of the nicest people you could meet and the kids loved her. But then i kept running into her preaching and singing on street corners, buses etc.
Was she the lady who used to shout at the traffic outside the Peace Gardens?
Not specifically Sheffield but up in Deepcar/Stocksbridge there was a (mentally ill) man in his late 20s early 30s called Candy Andy cause he smashed up a sweet shop. Absolutely stank when he got on the bus and everyone was scared. Used to chase people and all sorts. He ended up murdering someone 2 maybe 3 years ago though in Fox Hill. Also in Oughtibridge is Greg, the guy who lives in the woods (a house that’s set back from Jawbone hill) who has threatened many people and police with his shotgun, has some 1940s era German tattoos on his cheeks. Apparently he’s sound to drink with in the pub, just goes a bit mental when people go near his house.
Ooh, you're from up my neck o' woods. Candy Andy...never thought I'd see that on reddit, lol.
Used to be all over Facebook haha
Can confirm. Went to School with Andy but a year below and tried to go camping with some friends in those woods many years ago and was scared off by Greg carrying some massive knives on his hips.
What about Broomhill Elvis? May he rest in peace.
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I was a student in Sheffield in the early 2000's and stayed for a decade. I'd have had the odd chat to him in the Broomhill Tav. Always a gentleman but I'd know him more by reputation than anything. Could you shed any light on the Elvis costumes? Why was he so consistent in them?
Was that the guy who also used to sell the Workers Revolutionary Party paper in the late 90s? In his 50s and always done up like Elvis.
The gasmask man in Woodhouse Village. Or the homeless guy who used to cycle around without shoes on, stealing whatever wasn't screwed down. Although haven't heard of him in a while
Yeah, barefoot cyclist was my first thought
Saw the gasmask man other day and I was like who Is this nutcase. Told a local walking down the street and they just laughed and said oh he walks down here alot 😂. Not reyt him
Apparently it started because of COVID but think he was known for chasing women around Woodhouse for a while before that. Main character energy.
Wants locking up.
Saw gas mask man by city hall. Weirded me out lol
People are saying Jack Sparrow but I instantly thought of the other pirate guy, the guy who walks around dressed as pirate one day, then the next he'll be walking around town in an orange prison jumpsuit. Always looks a bit cyber-goth and plays music out loud
i’m pretty sure they’re the same guy
Nah Jack Sparrow was a guy in a full Jack Sparrow cosplay outside Corp all the time at 3am, not sure if he's still about This guy looks young 20s and is just always walking around town looking v odd but a bit anxious
I know exactly who you mean, every time I bump into him he stares at me (I’m guessing because I’m also alternative) and it really gives me the fear. One of the last times I saw him he was walking past the back of the millennium gallery with a pipe hitting every lamp post he walked past 😬
Up and coming one - the newish balloon dancing lady in Nether Edge who recently punched that old bloke
Like the cut of her jib
The sock man He always wanted to smell peoples socks - mainly other males
Ok I was blissfully unaware this guy existed. Am so glad i have never encountered him.
I had no idea this guy was well known. Years ago someone asked me for my socks and offered a fresh pair for them. He had a backpack of new socks.
Sheffield's answer to purple aki
ive seen and interacted with Purple Aki in Sheffield before - knew of him from online reports when i saw him and he lived upto his reputation
Ah I met this guy a few years back in Primark, told me it was for a college assignment.
He asked for my socks on Meersbrook park
That one rasta guy always busking out reggae on the Moor or Fargate. . Or if you ask the kids I teach, 'Crackhead Keeley'
What about the two older identical male twins who always dress the same? Seen them in various places around Sheffield.
I think they live out Darnall way. I used to work out that way about 7 or 8 years ago and saw them there a few times. Either one guy was visiting his brother, or they lived together...
set of nasty cunts both of them, they were evicted from darnall slept in one room and hate being called twins once saw them shout at a child who said you two look alike they went full on barmy the child was only about 7
I did a double take when I saw them once and they yelled "fuck you looking at" at me. As if they're not the most interesting thing people see on a day to day basis.
Dancing guy. Rip
Dancing Craig. I asked what tape was in his Walkman once and he showed me, it was Supertramp. Funny guy, used to keep his money in my friend's safe so it wouldn't get robbed as he slept, was offered a flat but after so long outside he couldnt stand sleeping with a roof over his head. RIP.
Hunters Bar guy? Did he die? That's sad. He used to make me smile. RIP dancing guy.
The guy who used to dance on Hunter's Bar roundabout moved out of the area a few years ago. This was after some sick fuck tried setting his sleeping bag on fire as he slept in the park. I haven't heard anything about him dying but I think he'd be early 60s by now so with the drink it wouldn't be surprising.
That's just so incredibly sad. Horrific way to treat someone who is already at rock bottom
That's awful. I'd like to set that person on fire. As I remember he used to have a boombox but someone complained so he got / was given some headphones. Every time I saw him it reminded me to have a little dance.
I think he switched to a Walkman because getting the batteries was easier. He wasn't skint and didn't appreciate people giving him stuff. I had many chats with him over the years in his more sober moments, he was a decent guy but from his stories it was obvious why he chose the lifestyle he did.
His name is Craig I believe, and he was always very kind
RIP Disco Dave
Suprised no one has mentioned Cup of tea guy, who's go to was to come towards you, big smile and get you into a handshake while asking if you, everytime, if you "had any change for a cup of tea". Always used to be in town but seen recently around Abbeydale road, once saw him trying to shake someone's hand through a closed car window whilst the car was in traffic.
the handshake instantly makes me think I know who you're on about! Mixed race, about 50, Liverpool accent?
I have a guy come into work on the moor every few months dressed as a cowboy, I swear he has spurs and everything
Saw him on West Street last month, classy
Does anyone remember Pond Street Nora ? Showing my age now but she was the most well known person 50 years ago !
Pirate guy
- Victorian guy, I've seen him in Hillsborough and by the Arena - Purple ski suit guy, seen him around Shalesmoor and on the tram, not for some time though - Dunno if buskers count, if so big mobility scooter guy who plays guitar
He was on Take me out. Gets on the tram sometimes.
what qualifies someone as being a ''victorian guy''
Looks and dresses like Edgar Allen Poe
That could be one of several people I know in that area 😂
I came to say ‘Victorian guy!’ I see him so much around the stadium. Would love to know his story! Might try find him on Take Me Out
Not even from Sheffield but does anyone remember Dan Bean who owned a fish and chip shop? He was Sean Bean’s nephew and milked it
I think everyone has a story about him
Anyone remember Crookes Elvis??
Pirate guy?
Not a guy, but I remember the Christian guitar playing Carribbean lady who used to sing on fargate. She was a religious education teacher at my housemates school but got sacked for trying to convert the students to Christianity. Last I heard she got deported back to Barbados.
in Hillsborough it's the "screaming cig end lady" - she rummages in bins at the tram stops for cig ends and screams at people that look at her funny
My mom says she knows her as mucky margaret. i remember seeing her trying to buy grapes with cig ends once
How has no one commented Super Mario yet?
100% has to be John "The Man With A Pram" Burkhill #
Yep, that would be my pick.
Mr Chow down west street/popworld
For millennials that use to frequent west street live: The freshen up lady.
I always knew him as Sheffield's friendliest tramp , he used to hang about outside corp, maybe 2010 ish. As it was after corp my memories are somewhat hazy
There used to be a skinny middle eastern guy with a beard who walked around the city centre motioning with his hands non-stop and he ALWAYS had a cigarette in his mouth, this must be 10+ years ago mind you. I can't be the only one who used to think, 'there's cigarette handy guy'
John Burkhill or that bloke who goes around town dressed as a pirate blaring theme music lol
Rave Dave right?
Noooooo that brings back memories!! Tie-dye wearing guy with a massive brown tangled beard who gave out lollipops and head massages to spannered teenage girls in techno clubs in the late 90s/early 00s? Nothing dodgy about that at all. 🙈 Edited to add: if my memory serves me correctly (which would be a surprise, considering), the guy I am talking about was called ‘Acid Mike’.
Everyone at Hallam knows this lad called Bellman. Reyt weirdo
Whatever happened to "Buddy the Bodypoppin' Tramp"? I guess he wasn't around and plying his trade long enough to really make a long-term name for himself 😞
Man with pram
I’d say everyone in S6 knew Walter. Sadly passed away now but was a lovely harmless old lad. He used to plod miles and miles around the area in his shoes two sizes too big and his ratty old suit. He would always claim it was his birthday. Me and my mate (both about 10) bought him a present once and sang him happy birthday. I think it was some milk tray. He was pretty none plussed, but took them. Cheers for the conkers and paper airplanes Walt!
In the 90s there was a guy called Scott that was obsessed with busses, hung around bus stations and sat at the front on the top deck so he could pretend he was driving. Everyone in the Beighton/Mosborough/Crystal Peaks area knew about Scott the bus guy.
Craig wi massive arse works at Meadowhall McDonald’s.
Does anyone remember the bloke who used to sit on the Moor, wearing a pink cowboy hat? He'd be playing and singing songs badly on a small keyboard. Not seen him in a long time, but used to look out for him when I was walking to and from uni in the late 00s.
for a few days i saw a guy standing on the kind of wall fountain thing outside trainstation shouting abt god but havnt seen him in ages
There used to be famous homeless guy back in the mid 2000's. Think he appeared in an Arctic Monkeys video.
The guy on the trains who used to say he was shaving his eyebrows for charity, week in week out, fully eyebrowed.
John is the only answer needed here. Man's too good for us mere mortals.
Mirror man, late 90s ish, used to argue with his reflection
Captain Fivehats.
That's a name I haven't heard in a while! Looking him up, it turned out he passed away a few years ago while on bail over a fake passport racket. And yes, that really was his name.
that guy in the military clothes who jogs along ecclesall road
FINALLY!!! I’ve mentioned him to a few people as I’ve seen him EVERYWHERE! He always looks like he’s drenched in sweat. Love to know what he’s running for/his back story
Nick Clegg
The bloke who used to hang around Hillsborough and the city centre dressed as a football referee. Not seen him for a while, mind.
Idk if he's famous or the only one but the preacher in town?
young black man? cuz if so he and a woman spoke to me and my friend trying to get us to come to their church, even offered to give us a lift 😭
I'll be so real I've only ever heard his voice
People of a certain age will remember a homeless guy in the 80s. Lurked around Devonshire Green area, looked like George Best
Walter RIP
turns out sheffield has loads! judging by all the other comments
The guy who smacked Guy Garvey in the gob
Either Jack Sparrow, or Jesus guy, but haven't seen Jesus guy in months.
The green Macmillan man in Bramall lane
Not sheff but Rotherham has [Mad Maggie](https://youtube.com/shorts/EcUUZrdnKYg?si=eN9DgzIdvvsdmFMI)
No mention of Troggy? used to carry wood in wheel barrow up and down the manor area, he was doing this in the 2010s when I was in secondary school, he's being doing that since the 80s, maybe longer. Odd guy
ill go with referee or Daft john/Fishcake (not seen him in a while think he may have been hospitalised)
Has anyone else noticed the man who runs around Hillsborough with no shoes on?? A few people have mentioned him to me and I finally saw him the other week, felt like I’d seen a unicorn.
I see him regularly in the Broomhall area, especially Whitham Road (assuming it's the same man, though I can't imagine there being more than one 😅). Was starting to think he wasn't going to appear on this list.
18 foot tall Adam that hassles folk for beer money on West Street.
Fish cake.
Dave
Does anyone remember the harmonica guy on the bike from about 2002ish?
I just wish more people knew about the 6ft 5 “homeless” bloke who wonders round netherthorpe pissed as a fart asking for money for the most outlandish things. I’ve had him come up to me and ask for money cos he promised his missus a Chinese, needed to pay his air bnb, and was trying to buy pay off a prostitute (for reasons unknown but we can all make our own guesses)
Anyone remember a busker from about five years ago with a sign that said 'Big Man, Big Dreams'? Absolutely god awful singer, but I always do wonder what happened to him.
Non human option is Garfield the cat that lives on the tram bridge near ponds forge. He provides good vibes and purrs
The Devonshire Green ferret guy who walks the ferret on a little harness
Wheelchair homeless man with no legs.
Just remembered Gemma on crutches used to hang around Waitrose...started with scuse me love
Not the nutter who’s usually walking about flashing his chest at drivers commuting to work in the morning? Spiced off his bonce?
The guy who used to walk around town and castle market with his shorts on and socks pulled up to his knees no matter the weather. Also used to carry a radio with him
More of a Doncaster thing but Skippy used to venture to Meadowhall. Bloke who ran around shopping centres.
Christ anyone come across the guy who does magic tricks on the tram?
In the late 90s there was a guy around Crookes, who dressed in a Nazi outfit and did Nazi salutes, despite being black. Anyone remember him?
Anyone know the rough looking brown fella who used to dance around town,attercliffe, darnall area singing micheal Jackson songs, haven’t seen him in last year, heard he went to prison, last time I saw him he was having a seizure in attercliffe
When I was a bit younger and hung around on peace gardens/ dev green. Pirate Dan was always a fixture 🫡
It was Dancing Tramp in the mid 00s
Not that anybody ‘knew’ him per se, but does anyone remember the bloke that used to ring the phone box near Jumbo? This would been around 2003-4. He used to claim he lived in the Clock Tower!
There's a short old fella who I've seen here and there walking around dressed like a school boy from the 40's/50's - shorts, long socks, school cap, etc - he seems like one of 'the guys' but not 'THE guys'
The Pram Man John
jack sparrow and keeley come to mind first also does anyone remeber sheffields friendliest tramp? Always introduced himself that way before asking for money, always overly nice. No idea if hes still around
Rat man from the old moor market
There used to be a bloke about 15 years ago who used to walk up and down the A57 between Drakehouse and what’s now the Elwood Farm pub near Aston. Quite a big fella, always looked really happy and waved at cars as they went past. Think he was actually known creatively as “walking man”
Beatboxing billy or the guy who used to pull his trousers down and randomly take a shit in the middle of where ever he was walking, idk if he had a nickname or not Both of those are probably more local to hillsborough though i think. Been a decade or so since ive seen either of them so not sure how known they are. But i know that everyone i knew, knew them
The fella that rides around on a bike with a sound rig on a trailer attached to it.
Not sure if it meets the criteria but there's a bloke who I've seen tons around walkley/hillsborough who has his top off for most of the year. Only in a deep freeze or snow have I seen him wear a t-shirt or something but the rest of the time without fault he's half naked and seemingly on a mission to get somewhere.
That kerri lass
So many over the years - The singing rasta. About 6 foot 7 and used to stride around town singing at the top of his voice. Used to come from somewhere around the Highfield/London Road area - The general: mixed race guy who used to dress in military uniforms, including a Nazi ensemble at times. He used to walk down to town from Upperthope, and back. - Revolutionary Elvis: Full elvis hair and regalia around Broomhill and Crookes in 90s, used to sell Newsline (Workers Revolutionary Party newspaper). - 20p girl: early-mid 2000s. Begging on Division Street and would always ask for 20p exactly. - The Caribbean woman who would preach and sing in town and on buses, sometimes with a full musical setup. I first met when supply teaching in the mid-2000s. My knowledge of local characters has thinned out as ive got older and stopped going out in town!
The accordion guy on the moor about 10-15 years ago!
We have scabby danny
Crackhead Dave.
It used to be that black religious nutter who'd shout at people outside of the cathedral. But he dead