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Local Heroes in Poole, Dorset*

Poole, Dorset Famous Residents

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

• Howard from Take That lives in the area. Alex James from Blur is from Poole. Jamie Reynolds from The Klaxons is from Bournemouth. Matt Tong from Bloc Party is from Poole.
• Katy Hill
• Couldn't possibly name drop
• Anne Sydney of Miss World fame was Poole carnival queen.Billy Wright England football captain and Joy Beverley of the beverley sisters pop group married in Poole registry office.Freddie Mills champion boxer was local and started at poole fairgrounds.
• brian crutcher world speedway champion,freddie mills boxing champion started career at poole fair,ann sydney miss world,joy beverley of beverley sisters and soccer legend billy wright wolves and england married at poole registry office
• someone said that buster merryfield who played grandad in only fools in horses used to live in poole, buster played uncle albert not grandad, but they both lived in poole.
• Lord Baden Powel is from Poole [the founder of the scouts]
• Ummmmm. Jamie Redknapp did live in a house next to Parkstone Yacht Club with Louise and Harry Redknapp lived next door as well.
• Poole is home to the elite Special Boat Service, ready equals of the SAS anyday!
• The famous spy story writter John Le Carre was born and bred in Poole
• Katie Price(use to be on Blue Peter)
• beckam has a house in martello road in brankesome park but only seen him once
• I think Buster Merrifield actually died in Poole Hospital, not at his home in Verwood.
• Tony Blackburn grew up in Lilliput (Anthony's Avenue next to Lilliput Road). Greg Lake (of King Crimson and Emerson Lake & Palmer) is also from the area - went to Poole Grammar School.
• Did Greenie (Ex Suede bassist) also come from Poole? Now resides in Greenock in Scotland.
• Billy has recently bought a house with her fella from 'five' (Richie ?)
• Jamie + Louise Redknapp, Frank Bruno, Max Bygraves.
• some guy from suede. I'd like you guys to know that his name is Richard Oakes.
• Buster Merryfield sadly died at his home in VERWOOD, this, if anything is a suberb of RINGWOOD in HAMPSHIRE
• aparently David Beckham has just got a house in Canford Cliffs.
• Max Bygraves. (talk about culture shock!) John Lennon's aunt Mimi.(deceased)Jamie Rednap and Louise ex Eternal, Cockle Kate (.bless!.)Some guy from Suede.
• Max Bygraves,Somewhere secret Jamie Redknapp and Louise.Geoff Boycott.Darren Anderton
• Buster Merrifield (alias Grandad in Only Fools and Horses) lives in Canford Cliffs. wow.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• gordan the tramp
• You find them in the subways !!
• A man who pushes a wheelbarrow. he's been around since my dad was 15!
• There's an old guy with a 'puppet show' with music to be seen regularly in Falkland Square during the warmer months, bands fresh from college of uni are seen frequently outside of Smiths, there has even been a bagpipe player in Kingland Crescent!
• there is a guy which walks around with a parrot on his shoulder he also has a blind dog and he plays the accorden he wounders round poole raddomly.
• One of the biggest characters is Emma P who delights audiences on Poole Quay by chucking mobile phones and others car keys into the Quay ... Anne S who turns up every Tuesday with 2000 bikers and hi-jacks a barge each summer Thursday to let off her fireworks - then is it not a bit eccentric to close the Quay each Summer first Friday of the month to all except Red Open Top Sports Cars ... and then there is a weird bloke who occasionally turns up dressed as a butterfly catcher
• Me.
• Ashley Barley, no longer lives here but is the coolest person ever
• Matthew Wellstead - amazing levitation powers
• Normally in the subway between the bus station + th arts centre. Also in the square by WH Smith etc.
• Harry is the guy the the harmonica, hes very popular with the drunk patrons on the quay, but sometimes goes towards grays and lators, too.
• Some guy that sits on the high st. and plays 3 tunes on his tin whistle, and a old piss head that roams the steets at night (mostly outside pubs) playing a crap version of "New York, New York" on a mouth organ.
• Strummer - guitarist with no strings.

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Last updated: 2008-07-06