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Local Heroes in Barkingside, Greater London*

Barkingside, Greater London Famous Residents

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

• bobby moore lived locally.
• Bobby Moore lived in Glenwood Gardens Terry Venables lived in Beechwood Gardens
• Noel Edmonds used to go to Glade school, I believe. Which is 5 mins from Barkingside.
• Bobby Moore lived in Barkingside just off Longwood Gardens, when he played for West Ham.
• Malcolm allison and quite a few westham players in the early 60s
• barkingside high street was once used in a Morecombe and Wise sketch. You also may mistake Barkingside for a set for a hollywood epic on the troubles in Kosovo, but alas the 100's of Kosovan refugee extra's actually live here and we get to pay for their accomadation and money allowance, but fair play to them they show there gratidude buy mugging the older residents of Barkingside when they collect there pension, arn't they sweet!!!!
• Eddie Wells (ICE MAN)
• Steve Castle, who has just joined Orient. He is the only guy in the Rothmans Yearbook who has his place of birth as Barkingside.
• Trevor Brooking attended Ilford County High School. Vicky Michelle(Ello,Ello),Alan Curbishley, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Frank Lampard (snr), Trevor Sinclair and the good looking one from Another Level often buy their fish & chips at HI-TIDE.
• Alan Lilley of Essex used to live over the road oh and Marc Falco
• John Charles, ex west ham united football player 1959-1971, played for england youth and the first black footballer to play for the hammers, and also one of the first in the leauge
• Bobby George, the darts player
• noel edmonds went to the Glade School
• Tessa Sanderson (in nearby Clayhall)
• Well there's always Ronnie O'Sullivan, who sometimes stuffs his face at the Sharod indian restaurant.
• Alan Sugar allegedly owns most of the High Street.
• The most famous ex-res. I can think of is Alan Sugar (aka. Mr Amstrad)

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• How can we forget "Billy"!! He goes around directing traffic etc You must have seen him!! Anyone know who I'm talking about?
• Street Entertainer the best in the world is the one and only Uncle Albert who directs the traffic, well I say entertainer insanly mad is a better discription for the old boy
• Various nutters who appear for about six months and disappear. Who can remember the bloke who used to play the mouth organ and talk to cars and the bloke who used to come in "The Chequers" for a wee who had the swimming bag, fag but and the stupid Hitler wave
• er, you get a few come out of the fairlop on a friday night
• A few do appear now and then but no regulars haunt the streets.

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Last updated: 2006-10-20