Yes, I'm sick of these scented flower petals.
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Dave Shorrocks . |
My Sepia Saturday post this week is off-theme I guess.It's about dogs......which mine aint.Now, it had been about "pets" I would be a least halfway there.Let me explain...........At the end of November I wrote this post [How To Hate The Working Classes] In it I wrote about a few of Halifax's eccentrics. I briefly mentioned a guy who dressed up as a Roundhead Soldier..& used to ride around The Pennine Moors on his horse.I know not why.I remember once,driving along Blackstone Edge in thick fog..and suddenly he appeared silently (from shrubs & grassland) like an extra from The Twilight Zone.
Well! Last weekend I found a photo of him on facebook.I got into a long facebook conversation with Karl Williams who knew my "Roundhead Soldier" ;was a close friend of his for over 10 years.He suggested we meet up for a pint or three.He would give me the lowdown on his friend Dave Shorrocks [AKA Captain Helliwell.AKA Reverend Padgett.] plus bring along a couple of photos.We meet Up in A Halifax Pub next Wednesday at 7pm.Hopefully I will have more information after that.
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Karl Williams |
He "rode a Shire horse whilst wearing full armour..... committed suicide 10 years ago - decapitation by train wheels..... a very sad loss of one of the areas eccentrics........
"Met him one day on Heights Road, he warned me of the raping and pillaging happening in Heptonstall(it was the umpteenth anniversary) we had a lovely chat and he rode of towards Midgley.I saw him a couple more times when I was riding around the moors we would stop and admire the others horse, he was a real eccentric... very sad loss!"
Another friend (Tony Sharpe) wrote me "His horse was called Oliver. In his guise as Reverend Padgett at Shibden once, he was ranting about all the Popery. I said "Dave, all this potpourri?" He said "Yes, I'm sick of these scented flower petals."
Hopefully I May Have Some Photos & Tales of Captain Helliwell next week.In other news,Jah Wobble plays Hebden Bridge Trades Club again at the end of March.A Must-see for me.I will also be going back to Italy that month.A busy Spring!
You May Wish To See My Previous Photographs of Signore Wobble Here
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Claus Friehe |
Comments
i don't like too much popery either, but i guess i won't lose my head over it
Thanks for the invite but I am not going to be able to make it on this occasion as we have people coming that evening. But do keep me in the loop as far as any further meetings are concerned and I will be fascinated to read your follow-up post.
BTW Comments were turned off on your last two posts when I read them, so I was unable to comment.
The Reverend sounds a real character. I'm looking forward to hearing more about him.
Have a great weekend,
Kathy M.
see my * to confound Goggling? although it is wonderful that a few keystrokes can dismiss a 40 year separation.
the cops need to get better at it.
My wife tells me was a regular sight in Wyke, Baillif Bridge, Stoney Lane, Lightcliffe...
Can't say I've any reason to suppose he wasn't a monk. (Come to think of it then if you think you're a monk then I suppose you are).
We have a man here in Minneapolis, sees himself as an artist -- and perhaps he is... Firmly in his late 50s, he has worn the same thing every single time I've seen him: black pants, a white "Pirate-style" shirt with billowing sleeves, a thick black head scarf with dyed-black ringlets of hair pouring out, a pencil-thin mustache.
Ack. Wish I could remember his name...
Pearl
p.s. Mary will come to your house to clean but demands shepherd's pie...