Thanks for these Jan . . . they're wonderful characters! I'm tempted to adopt some or all, however must continue with my own elusive bunch for now. >More for the Listers who are interested. > >John KILROY >Was an Irish navvy and a massive 6'5" tall. He had hands like shovels. Every >now and then, after a heavy drinking bout, he would have to be restrained in >a straightjacket - by at least half a dozen bobbies from 'Number one' >(Devonshire St) as the local police station was known. > >'Tar Pan Joe' (ASHTON) >worked on the tarpan boiler, which was puilled by a horse, when the >Corporation men laid the roads with stone setts.He would fill in the cracks >with hot tar from the spout of his tar bucket. > >'Ski' Milk Man >Skim-milk or blue-milk had the cream taken away. The 'Ski' Milk Man had a >hand cart made for the job, with two milk churns on it. He sold the skim-milk >at about 1d per pint. > >'Old Nellie' >was a peg seller, lived in Oliver's lodging-house with Abe MILNES, a stone >sawyer. She had a gruff voice, much deeper than you could expect a woman ever >to have. > >'Daddy' FEATHER >had a pot/crockery shop on damside. He would auction dinner and tea services. >He could pile almost a whole service between his fingers and chin. And if his >price, was not reached, he would smash them against the wall. His wife was >called 'Tapioca Semolina' FEATHER > >Billy FEATHER >Used to sing in pubs. He was 'Daddy and 'Tapioca Semolia' FEATHER's son. He >was going away to college and had a good education. But for whatever reason >he was down on his uppers. Although he had a cleft palate he was a good >singer. He would always end up singing 'Maquita'. He lived with 'Malizzie' >(Mary Elizabeth) HALLIGAN in Eastwood Square. They would sing together. > >'Old Granny' HEAPS >Lived on Damside. Whatever the weather, she would always sit outside on a >little chair. All she lived on were cat's lights. No one ever knew how old >she was. She said she remembered soldiers in the place called the 'Barracks' >later knows as Ivy Place............ > >Patsy COLLINS >Had a peg leg. He would crack wooden doors and so on with his head for a bet, >when he had been drinking. Once he cracked an old oven door with his head >(which was shaped like and egg) He lived in the Workhouse. > >Any of you found your relatives yet???????? -- Wendy Leyland Victoria, BC Canada Researching - MOULSON, HARGREAVES, RYAN, HARON - Bradford, Yks.