Does Anyone Remember?

[SK1NT]

The post about xylophone man reminded me of this guy ....

Morris, a excentric found around worthing, i mainly remember him around teville gate. He was a elderly man always with his bike and wore Big red glasses and would just stand at the side of busy roads waving to the cars passing by.
Remember Him Anyone?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

No thankfully I have never been to Worthing.

 

[SK1NT]

we're talking about 15 years ago?

 

[aftershavedave]

we're talking about 15 years ago?

it was less, about 10 maybe, and yes i remember him well. died some years ago i believe...

 

[Curious Orange]

The post about xylophone man reminded me of this guy ....

Morris, a excentric found around worthing, i mainly remember him around teville gate. He was a elderly man always with his bike and wore Big red glasses and would just stand at the side of busy roads waving to the cars passing by.
Remember Him Anyone?

I remember him, we always used to see him as we were driving to Goring to see my Grandparents. He used to wear a boater too as I re-call, a very dapper gentleman.

 

[Braders]

nope

 

[seagull over spain]

HE croaked it around seven years ago

 

[Icy Gull]

Horace not Morris I think

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

No thankfully I have never been to Worthing.

Spoken like a true East Sussexer

 

[Napper]

Yeah but nowadays you have the old geezer in Hove Brighton and occasionally Worthing who shouts violently at all the busses !!

 

[SK1NT]

Yea yea Horrace! thats it! He was wierd! just remember wanting to talk to him when i was a kid and my mum pulling me away!

Theres a black guy up here, in kingston near where i work, always stands in the same place, literally 24hours a day, dressed in lycra and army suits, etc very friendly guy but rambles on about crap and very hard to understand! funny

 

[Brovion]

Hi name 'twas indeed Horace. It was quite sad, towards the end of his life he was regularly getting beaten up because he was 'wierd' whereas in the 70s he just got a bit of friendly abuse.

Last time we had this thread somebody managed to post a picture of him on his bike.

 

[SK1NT]

beaten up, thats so wrong! i hate hearing stuff like that! just for being excentric! sad!

 

[Wilko]

Yeah but nowadays you have the old geezer in Hove Brighton and occasionally Worthing who shouts violently at all the busses !!

Hand clap eddie !! He walks up and down western road all day clapping at the buses - top man

I remember Horace too, always used to pass him in worthin on the way to the goldstone on a sat afternoon - happy days

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Spoken like a true East Sussexer

Thank you very much (in an Elvis type way)

 

[SK1NT]

any pics of horrace?

 

[SK1NT]

i feel a bit sad, that a character of worthing has been forgotten and a happy memory of my childhood. Probably was beaten up towards the end of his life a lot.

RIP Horace

Although the vision of him at the side of the road waving reminds me of a scene in stephen kings IT.

 

[Superphil]

I thought he was called Bertie but I am in my 30s now, but what I do remember is

1. Him sitting on Offington Roundabout (A27 meets A24) waving at everyone like a lord, but then in later life flicking the Vs and giving the bird to the passing cars.

2. Standing by the Worthing Pier with a portable "Dansette" style record player and with a microphone and amp singing along to loads of old music hall tunes, again in later life he got a bit abusive and would start using foul language in the songs!

Used to ride a pink bicycle, I think most people thought of him as a bit eccentric, completely camp, and a few I'm sure wouldn't let their kids too close (I'm not making any allegations here, just saying it how it seemed)