OwlsChick Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I remember him once breaking his arm because he was running for a bus in pond st.He looked at the big clock which used to be on the top platform nearest roxys.The clock wasent working at the time but he ran thinking his bus was due out,slipped broke his arm,and did he have plenty to say about that...It was...Get that clock fixed or take the bu**er down....It was fixed within 2 days..RIP Rog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firparnian Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Certainly was a character, remember him once complaining about the birds singing early in the morning and wanting to start a campaign to kill a bird a day. Think he got suspended for that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 He always made me giggle with his comments about the mobile library. He had to read out the timetable and route and many times it was broken down. He used to rant that it was out of service more than in, and that it should more properly be called the immobile library. For such a clever, witty and ascerbic man it was awful the state he ended up in. Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denlin Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 not sure when he died but I went to his funeral service somewhere off West street. remembr him goin on about "royal ackenthorpe" and he got put in hostpital for sayin "the best thing Elvis ever did was die". i think some old woman attacked him on a bus. he was one of those larger than life characters. tried not to miss any off his radio shows. He was hilarious, he said that when Elvis died he should be stuffed and mounted and put in a cage in the corner and got attacked by some women in Canns on Chapel walk and finished up with a broken arm. He got sacked from BBC radio for suggesting the director generals wife slipped the driving examiner some money to pass her test:hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrA Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Always called in the Queens at Ridgeway on his way home from work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacko 1 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I remember him turning out in a charity feetball game at Millmoor, he had cadged boots on ordinary ankle socks, sparrow legs, his jacket on under his shirt which contained his fags and lighter which he lit up a couple of times until the ref and Ray Stewart who kicked the ball at him a couple of times had had enough and he got sent off, the referee was boo'ed for the remainder of the match. But also very funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brinman Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 If my memory serves me right he was also on BBC children's television as Papa Luigi alongside Pinky & Perky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orielanne Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Actually, Roger had Parkinson;s,people often thought he was drunk when he wasn't because of his mumbling and unsteady walk. Not to say he didn't drink, he did, in copious quantities, when he was unable to get to an offlicence, he would phone his favourite taxi firm, get them to go and pick a bottle of whisky up for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggerdigger Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Always called in the Queens at Ridgeway on his way home from work Lived in Ford bottom at the side of the large dam at Birley Hay up Greer Lane in a massive detached house.Saw him in the Bridge Inn on a few occasions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handypandy Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I remember his walking stick with the bicycle bell attached.......class:hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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