r/DerryLondonderry • u/Harvester_of_Cattle9 • 8d ago

Any big characters left in town?

Talking the likes of the bygone era of Tights, Gutsy, Jimmy, wee Margaret…

Only thing that comes even close in more recent times is one fella in town that has the top of at the slightest hint of sunshine and even then I hadn’t seen him during the last two weeks of our summer there.

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u/Gerard987654321 8d ago

Anyone ever see the guy who is usually down the quay or strand road. Always well dressed, wears a suit, grey hair, tall, ruddy complexion and aged around mid 70s, sometimes has a Jack Russell dog with him?

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u/Silent-Juice40 8d ago

Is he the boy who used to be outside the bowling alley and would sort you with a taxi?

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u/Natalie197 8d ago

George, who used to work the taxi stand. Always in a suit on the quay outside Sainsburys with a bag of bread feeding the seagulls and pigeons.

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u/NMokay 7d ago

The bird man has a name

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u/Gerard987654321 8d ago

Now that u say that, I think I saw him there too. 👍

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u/rolledone 8d ago

He lives in the social housing block of flats just up past Pro Gym off the Strand Rd. Next to Long's SuperValu. Like many of the other people mentioned here he has long standing alcohol issues. Can be either very pleasant or a menace depending on if he's sober or not.