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Local Heroes in Redhill, Surrey*

Redhill, Surrey Famous Residents

Cringing Cult of Celebrity (Famous residents and ex-residents.)

• Status Quo.
• I'm pretty notorious and so is the Bean
• Great fun - but End Blyton was never at Noddyshall. See www.rockshawroad.org.uk
• Melvyn Hayes, Fatboy Slim.
• I heard that middle-of-the-road Jazz-Lite Lame-o Katie Melua used to live here, before she could afford to move away.
• home of the clangers yes thats right episodes of the clangers where filmed in a shed in frenches road!!!!!
• Check crimewatch each week to see Redhill's most famous residents doing what they do best!
• Hulk Hogan lives in Timperley Gardens.
• Enid Blyton lived in Noddy Hall in Merstham (Just outside Redhill)
• Ronnie Biggs, great train robber once lived here
• Apparently Alistair Crowley was a Redhill Resident - and look how he turned out! It was Melvin Haze from it ain't Half Hot Mum who lived locally, but it was Reigate- I know 'cause it was in my street.
• Aleister Crowley used to live in Frenches road.
• spike milligan didn't live too far away (reigate)
• The Infamous "Big" Jon Davey... a man on a mission to stike back at the establishment, righting political and social injustices with his own unique brand of activism. Most people in the scene remebers "Xatreth", his death/heavy metal band, and he also did a stint with "Los Paraliticos" and then went on to become the lead guitarist for London's hardcore industrial heavy death dark gruesome band "Labrat". Also known for his promotional work with local bands, via Black Flag Promotions. Love ya Jon!
• Madge Bishop from neighbours has been spotted a few times. Ex Formula 1 driver Ukyo Katayam used to live in Salfords (does he still?).
• beppe from eastenders lived here once, and there's the guy that killed that woman in emmerdale.
• Sheena Mackay, author of the brilliant Redhill Roccoco
• Didnt one one the Kings used to stop by on the way to Bognor Regis?
• fat boy slim grew up in reigate just next door but no-one except ronnie biggs has come from redhill
• Michael Greco (Not quite Redhill, but close enough). Presumably he's lucky enough not to have to now he's famous!
• Beppe from Eastenders (Michael Greco) went to St.Bedes school in Redhill, though whether he actually lived there I don't know. Same goes for Matt Bardock (in 'Pay and Display' with James Bowlam and Inspector Frost's now dead sidekick).
• Alan, the long term Big Issue Vendor, they will put up a blue plaque when he leaves, but it won`t be that easy to see, the same way as the majority have of passers by have missed him since 1995 ! Mad Alex, renowned ex biker, loved and loathed by all, a decent guy all the same
• Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs lived on Redstone Hill - a far cry from the beaches of Rio. Also, the first drummer from the band Status Quo was a local resident. I remember seeing him in the late sixties driving around in a clapped-out green E-Type.
• Redhill's most famous son is surely quiz master supreme Nick Terry. Nick, a BA Pilot, has won "Fifteen to One" four times, becoming notorious for his speed on the buzzer. A very impressive achievement for the 33-going-on-16 year old.
• Bernard Bresslaw, Fat Boy Slim (more Reigate really), The gay one in It Ain't half hot mum - sorry can't remember his name but I think there's an M in it.
• Nobody would admit to ever having lived there by choice.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• Mark Ye Morris. What a nutter!
• There are some men who come across as strange but they are realy friendly residents of a home
• Rodney, what a card.
• The Norwich football fan- I slightly feel sorry for him, yet he scares me no end. He's always wearing the Norwich kit, with a Norwich bag, and in the winter he has a Norwich fleece. Maybe he should move to..err.. Norwich?
• Abdul the taxi driver, works for roadrunner also known as "bin". Stunning guy, really talkative, puts up with you no matter how drunk you are. Has a habbit of charging double what it usualy costs but quality costs more. If you dont have the cash make sure you can run coz he has a baseball bat and he uses it.
• Pablo, Rasta guy who stands out like a pimp at church, actually a realy nice guy but can sometime walk of with ur girlfriend. Basically a tourist information centre on legs for everyone who's into stuff that aint entirly legal
• Dave at the BP garage. He's a legend, just dont talk to him or you'll be there for days as he recites every little thing that goes on in his life at the BP in the middle of the night. He randomly closes the whole garage when he has something to do which can be a pain but you have to forgive him, very obvious when he is in a bad mood
• Norwich City guy, has the results of every football match thats played, great if you want to get the latest score. Can't miss him in his 1980s Norwich city kit
• Dodgy Dave from the BP, the home of being overcharged, out-of-date food, and where your Nectar Points get put on the cashiers' own cards by the tills.
• The norwich city kit wearing bloke always in redhill, wearing a 10 yeah old norwich shirt. Found on saturdays lookin at the Tv's through the the tv shop window, to see if Norwich have won.
• mad alex always used to be good for a laugh.well he went a bit more mad after those kids in horley jumped on his head and threw him in that bonfire but well he can usualy be found under the coverings by the harlequin . just look for the wooly hat and purple can.
• A local character, and by character i mean a sore on the face of humanity, is a hairdresser in redhill with blond hair and a moustache. Perhaps redhills grumpiest and most bitter resident ,he once accused someone of being on drugs because they wanted him to cut some more hair off the back of their head. So confident was he with his abilities, that any suggestions were met with "you're high you are, you're on drugs". Never miling during his illustrious career this reckless maverick worked in the hairdressers next to the Cafe Belfry before moving on to the hairdressers in the arcade.
• The disabled "Norwich guy" who wanders round accosting random strangers doesnt actualy support Norwich, hes a Crystal Palace fan. Redhill is also home to Pikies, Drunkards who have fights in the town centre while the office workers are on lunch & kiddie fiddlers. Lovely community spirit
• CRAZY LADY HAS DIED! It was a shock to us all. RIP.
• There is crazy lady....you'll spot her, she's little, wears a beige rain hat and coat ALL THE TIME, walks around with a shopping trolly and shouts at everyone.
• Um none really. which is a shame but soon there may be poi people.
• The Town Centre is where all the crooners, howlers and nutters go to make a noise. Have pity on our old friend the Big Issue vender who sets up shop outside Llyods bank.
• The fabled Norwich man of course (his names actualy Colin). Mad Mary (old schizophrenic woman who runs round shouting & swearing to herself & others). Theres also a local woman who seems to think shes a witch and goes round doing "evil" things like aranging napkins in the Belfrys cafes into pentagons.
• xians in Deadhill, can be quite entertaining,
• The Big Issue seller, Alan, does not drive a car to work, he has had to sell it, along with many other possessions. He is out there rain or shine and deserves some respect.
• Anyone from Whitepost Health Centre on Thursday afternoons. Stand still...they'll find you!
• The guy in the Yellow & Green football kit is known as Mr Norwich City. always shops in Lidl. I used to work there, he took a shine to me and invited me round to his for dinner one night! hahaha i ran away! Then theres Mad Alex and his cronies who get members of the public to buy cider for them from Lidl coz they are banned from the shop. Mad Alex has threatened to kill me and other Lidl employees on numerous occasions! Theres also the Pigeon Man, he goes to Lidl everyday between 1 and 2 oclock, buys six crumpets, then feeds them to the birds. He once told us that we couldnt kill the wasp that was flying around the tills, stood there with his hand open, wasp landed on it and he proceded to talk to it! also asked if i would ever consider stepping on an ant!? FREAK! Mr Norwich City is the funniest person in Redhill!
• Redhill is always full of preachers asking for your faith (does that count as busking?)
• -The friendly Big Issue man with the big beard. -The strange mad bloke who walks around in a green and yellow football strip all day, every day, and approaches strangers to tell them the football scores. If you catch his eye, run. -The old guy who drinks meths and is normally lying on the pavement somewhere near the town centre at about 8 every morning. -The strange old man who looks like Captain Birdseye and argues with strangers in a very loud voice. -The couple in matching anoraks and bottle glasses who have loud drunken arguments in the Warwick Quadrant most afternoons. -The old guy in the Sun with a pint of bitter and a flushed red face who looks just like "Rabies" from that kids tv show "Maid Marian"... remember? -A refugee with a beautiful singing voice who was busking outside Woolworths for about half an hour once before the police led him away.
• theres a skabby bearded big issue sellar who i personally find amusing (he drives to work everyday)
• The odd sax or guitar player, but nothing regular.
• Only one Big Issue Vendor has survived the boredom since 1995, every dinnertime he is faced by the Bretheren,(maybe some of the dissolusioned preachers previously mentioned ), he survives their repetitious sermons by turning up his radio. Good luck to ya Alan someone will eventually help you.
• Only one Big Issue Vendor has survived the boredom since 1995, every dinnertime he is faced by the Bretheren,(maybe some of the dissolusioned preachers previously mentioned ), he survives their repetitious sermons by turning up his radio. Good luck to ya Alan someone will eventually help you.
• A very sad clown who makes balloon dogs. 101 disollusioned Christian preachers. Lots of sellers of the Big Issue. A One Man Band who immediately gets lynched by the 14 year olds in their Baressi jackets when he tries to sing.

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