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Local Heroes in Prestatyn, Denbighshire*

Prestatyn, Denbighshire Famous Residents

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

• Got to be John hit em Prescott
• John Prescott was born here. Carol Vordrman (phwoarrr) and Lisa Scott Lee (ding dong).
• Eric Clapton once bought a packet of crisps in the Melyd Arms. According to local legend. And if it's true I'll chew out my own spleen.
• well there is carol!!
• Lisa from steps, don't be nice when you see her. Even worse are her brothers
• Mike Peters likes to look important in McAuleys.Carol Vorderman ( her sister is called Trixie! Ho-ho!)
• I read the other day that Bob Marley's dad is from Prestatyn! His name is Captain Norval Marley. Has anyone else any other info??????
• Mike Peters (of Alarm fame)
• My mate Claire lives in Prestatyn & she's going to be a really famous artist when she's dead
• Marconi made the 1st radio broadcast from the water tower at the Frith. The Wright brothers made their 1st flight from the top of the Nova to the amusement arcade. (I kid ye not)
• Carol Vorderfuckingman Mike Peters of the Alarm Dr. Lee Holmes Phd - designer of the east annex of the Tae modern and a schoolmate of mine
• Mike England, who as manager of the Welsh National Soccer Team, led them deep into obscurity, from which they still have not returned.
• Gareth Hale's father died some years ago, his widow still lives in Meliden and would probably be fairly upset with this site as it stands.
• Mikey T and Wez eat your heart out.
• What's so famous about Fergus Macleod?
• Carol Vorderman - lived up the road from me. Definitely NOT that smart. Fergus MacLeod, very smart, VERY rich City type. Far from his roots. Lisa (steps). Ruth Ellis (Rhyl).
• bob marley once pissed near my flat (alledgedly)
• Carol Vorderman claims to have had a poverty stricken childhood in Prestatyn - anybody who knows her will disagree. Pop group Alarm's has been lead singer sometimes spotted in Macauley's.
• When Russ Abbot fired the Black Abbots one bought the Nant Hotel, which is always a recipe for disaster, and ended up a tramp. Gareth Hale's dad lives nearby. Excellent Welsh poet John Davies wastes his talent teaching English at the high school.
• Sir Hugh Weldon (lived on Gronant Road) Roger Moore, AKA "The Saint" (lived next to the now defunct Nant Hall Hotel)
• Mike Peters from the Alarm goes to our Indian.
• Carol Vorderman's sister lives there.
• Jacqui Godfrey of BBC fame.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• The local Mad people are quite entertaining (they never should have closed Denbigh mental home although I suppose overcrowding must have been a problem...
• Watch the bench crew staggering home after 11pm, its funny. I always end up paraletic
• DEBASE.DEBASE
• a brilliant collection of drunks and pyscopaths!!
• The drunken bums staggering out of the Cross Foxes pub on Saturday afternoon - I know as I used to be one of them!
• How can McCorley's charge those prices?

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Last updated: 2008-06-30