Famous neighbours?

[Dayvo]

Didn't know it at the time, but Paul Simon lived two roads down from me when I were a nipper.

Didn't know it at the time, but I lived in a flat below a famous actor/comedian in Stockholm. We used to exchange pleasantries in the stairwell if we met each other.

My sister used to live next door to Leslie Grantham from Eastenders in Parsons Green. She said he was always arguing with his misses/girlfriend and seemed a total dick.

My brother-in-law used to live next door to Roald Dahl and was mates with his children. In fact RD offered my b-i-l a cigarette when he was 7 years old, which started a smoking habit that lasted 30+ years.

 

[Katherine]

I've got news for you...Sale Sharks are a Union team. Do you mean Salford Red Devils? They play at the same place

Whoops. I'm sure you're right.

 

[Tim Hall]

Apparently one of the players for Sale Sharks lives down our road but as that's a rugby league team not a rugby union team, we've never bothered to find out who or where.

Which reminds me, Enya's rugby team has a really tough start to the season: Sale (a), Sale (a), Sale (a)

 

[DaveReading]

Ronnie Lane lived on the corner of my road when I was a student in the 1970s.

 

[AndyRM]

Which reminds me, Enya's rugby team has a really tough start to the season: Sale (a), Sale (a), Sale (a)

The crap good jokes thread is that way >>>>>>>>

Though I have to admit that did make me chuckle.

 

[Julia9054]

The rumour is that Daniel Craig has a house round here somewhere. No one knows quite which house it is though. There have been several reported local sightings including one of my sixth formers who worked in a Harrogate health club and spotted him in the pool!

 

[stephec]

[QUOTE 4464790, member: 259"]was he in a minisub, pursued by a massive shark?[/QUOTE]
Julia's probably hoping for those tight blue trunks.

 

[Brains]

At various times depending on where I was living:
Lots of musicians and Actors, some of whom you may have heard of

Jools Holland - He has now moved out, but his studio is still top of my road
Bob Godfrey - the late great animator of Rhubarb and Custard
Glen Tillbrook - Squeeze, still there
David Beckham - as a kid lived in the next road and shared a fence at the end of the garden
Charles Richardson - Crime Boss of the Richardson Gang who were the big rivals to the Krays (two nice daughters who we used to play with)
Andrew Gardner - Newsreader, and I was at school with his son
Helen Shapiro - Singer (walking back to happiness...)
Michael Frayn - Playright (and wife Claire Tomalin, writer and daughter Rebecca now a documentary maker)
Bobby Bleach - Contract hitman (Nice guy, but incapable of driving a car at less than 60 mph), his mum is still there
Most impressively we lived next to a guy called Patrick who let his house become the London warehouse for tonnes of imported cannabis, he was caught in Operation Juliette which became a book, a documentary and a film all in the 1980's

 

[rich p]

Back in 1987 I lived in The Bishops Avenue for a few months...

I bet you did, you filthy swine...

 

[EnPassant]

I bet you did, you filthy swine...

Which makes me feel I probably missed something in taking this literally when replying

 

[NorthernDave]

The late Gary Speed, Leeds United (and Wales) legend, briefly lived across the road from my dad's when he first signed for the club, as did Noel Whelan.

 

[MarkF]

Lizzie Armitstead's sister is my next door neighbour, that's my best shot.

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

Jim Bowen lived in the house next door to mine in Accrington, but years before I moved in! Paddy from Emmerdale lived on the same road too!

 

[Colin_P]

Slightly off topic but the other day I stopped partway through a ride (had to heft the bike through a stile) and right there was the legend that is Timmy Mallet picking blackberries with his bike also parked up. Had a bit of a chat about apple and blackberry pies and I was on my way. Thoroughly decent chap and a cyclist too.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Growing up we lived on the same avenue as HARRY MARKHAM but I hadn't a clue TBH. I can remember my Mum saying that man had been in Corrie, but he couldnt compete with my Raleigh Chipper so I wasn't bovvered.

Also keeping the Corrie link, KATY CAVANAGH went to my primary school, and now I'm only a few minutes away from Peter Kay and Stu Francis.............Bolton - where the stars sign brightest