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Local Heroes in Folkestone, Kent*

Folkestone, Kent Famous Residents

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

• Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Paul O'Grady all live in the area!!
• met geezer who played mr mayer in holby city in cheriton.bloke who played malcolm in londons burning lives in hythe( his dad was dr baker from sun lane surgery)
• Henry McCullough, lead guitarist with Joe Cocker and The Grease Band and the original Paul McCartney's Wings used to leve in Folkestone. He recorded a live album in Toffs Club.
• Richard west of the 'Porch Monkeys' lives in cheriton near KAP
• Micheal Fish used to live in seabrook, i met him in little chef by the petrol station with my old trout years ago. think the gyppos scared him away! the history teacher Frank from the harvey (can't actually remember his name now, he was short and got annoyed if u called him Frank)
• June Brown (Dot from EastEnders) has a house in Earls Avenue
• Vic reeves,
• apparently and i hope its not true!! folkestone is famous for................ the fast food rockers! so world! we would have stopped them leaving if we had known what they would do!
• Noel Reading from the Jimi Hendrix Experiance. By far the best thing to ever come out of Folkestone. He did his education at the Harvey Grammar so he's also the best thing to come out of my school... apart from me of course!
• William Harvey - he who discovered the blood circulation system
• Kyle Bailey from the band 'The Kyle Bailey Blues Xplosion' lives in a house just off cheriton high street, near KFC
• Dot Cotton!
• Apparently Dot from Eastenders lives here - but in the 13 years i lived there, i never saw her. One of my mates played pool with Barry from Eastenders in the Morehall.
• dot cotton, jim moir(vic reeves), and i have also seen lilly savage here alltho she lives in aldington
• Vic Reeves, the actress who placys Dot Cotton in Eastenders and Barbara Windsor's bra-fitter are just three of the more conspicuous celebs. Oh, and my grandma knows the location of Lord Lucan's body, if anyone's interested?
• Llyme managing director of Silver Springs and local resident Lilly Savage
• dot cotton
• Dot Cotton! Wow!She was in the petrol station at Teso once and I didn't even recognise her. My Mum did though so now I now she really does live here, I thought it was a myth.Vic Reeves seems to be everywhere I go these days. H lives in Sandgate.
• Vic Reeves used to live in Aldington not New Romney, now lives in Sandgate! Bob Mortimer also lives in Aldington. Lily Savage brought Vic Reeves's place and shops in Waitrose Hythe
• My brother says he served Herbert Lom in Tescos a few years ago.
• dot cotton, paul nicholas
• finally laying the June brown saga to rest..... she now lives in basildon, but used to live at 207 dover road!!!!
• RIP Mad Harry
• Bob holness used to live in seabrook and vic reeves lives in lower sandgate rd
• I'm sure that some past-it old man tried to impress me in Harveys with the fact that he used to be in The Sensational Alex Harvey Band...or was it Fat Matress?
• The takeaway van over the stadium on saturdays, they served lovely bacon butties on those freezing mornings!
• I know someone used to have an apartment in the matrapole I can't remember who, I think it might have been Paul Nicholas
• A friend of mine said that 'Dot Cotton' lives or lived here... near Kingsnorth Gardens
• Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience came from Folkestone. Jimi wrote 'Fire' here in Noel's mum's house. She had a dog called Rover, hence the opening line 'Move over, Rover, let Jimi take over' (because he wanted to sit in front of the fire that Rover was sleeping next to). The Stones played here in 1964.
• Vic Reeves has sold his house to Lilly Savage
• Jeremy Goss's mum lived here, that's about as good as it gets (you probably don't remeber him do you - Norwich City fooballer) William Harvey was also born here. His family founded a school - interesting eh
• Bianca Jagger, Paul Nicholas(the grand) Dave the barman from minder lives in greatstone
• Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer live in New Romney.
• Apparently, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer don't live too far away. Folkestone high Street featured in thier latest ("Bang, Bang, It's...) series. You had to be quick to catch it ,though
• H.G Wells lived at Spade House ( know a private nursing home ) Sandgate
• Hatti Jaques was born in Sandagate (The Fat Lady in the Carry On Films)
• Dot Cotton off Eastenders lives in Bouverie Road West

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• TRAMPS
• RIP Mad Harry. Will somebody shoot that lunatic woman who thinks that she can play the Accordian outside W H Smiths?? Someone please tell her that THERE ARE USUALLY FOUR BEATS TO A BAR, NOT TWENTYNINE .......
• The scottish winos around the memorial clock tower outside Activ
• laura the one who entertains the boy racers then ends up at the house some how i dont know why but if you see a red nova sr thats me
• Is Bob Barton Still hanging out by the skew arches in dover road, with his super tennants or special brew, very drunk but a decent man whos life did not work out how he exspected.
• Not so entertaining really! The mad one-man band bloke seems to be around quite a lot but he's rubbish.
• There was old guy who used to wear a sort of silver space suit. Had white hair and supposedly came from Scotland originally. Claimed he was James Bond and used to walk from Folkestone, through Sandgate and on towards the marsh. One of the many F'stone loonies.
• I like the lady who plays the accordian badly.
• I miss Mad Harry
• I like body popping... electic boo ga loo. I also took my dog to the high street one day and fitted an old pair of loosely fitting roller skates. Pushed him round for hours... kept falling over and yelping. Got loads of cash.
• "The Shuffler" was, as far as I can remember, the most entertaining thing about Folkestone. He was the 'gentleman of the road ' who hung around the bus station smelling of wee.
• Sometimes there is an old man in the town centre on the weekends with a drum on his back and covered in instruments I think he must be quite old as I can remember him from years back
• Mad Harry was the best street entertainer. But he's dead now.
• Mick Valentine ex-busker.in guiness book of records.
• You know the mexican buskers sketch on the Fast Show - Well they perform live in Folkestone every Staurday in the town centre.
• Life just isn't the same since 'Mad Harry' passed away

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Last updated: 2006-12-11