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Local Heroes in Slough, Berkshire*

Slough, Berkshire Famous Residents

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

• Jimmy Carr. He is pretty famous now, I love his humour. My boyfriend went to school with him in Burnham.
• Fya, a new urban reaggae girl group
• It's not Yootha Joyce, it's Una Stubbs and she went to Baylis Court school.
• i once took my friend george clooney into the wheatssheath...he liked it!
• Gary Numan was NOT raised in Slough. He was born in Stanwell, and raised in Ashford and Staines.
• well..... ali G's staines. of course there's david brent, the spice girlslived in maidenhead for a while, roy from east enders also lives there 9 though he's dead now isn't he??/) then it's local talent, film makers ( asham kambooj) and who the fuck else is ever going to admit to coming from sluff
• Robert Williams (2 bit actor), Toni De Bart (one hit wonder), Mark Richardson (athlete), Eutha Joyce (actress), MN8 (boyband), Faith Brown (comedienne), Slough mens hockey team and european champions 1950's, Linford Christie (lives nearby in Iver actually) and the man who invented the bouncing bomb, (actually, he is buried in Slough,. I saw his funeral in 1982).
• I have heard that Eutha Joyce (Aunt Sally), went to Woodside school and Ozzy Osbourne once lived in Farnham Common.
• Dennis Waterman (The Sweeny etc)lives in Farnham
• tommy cooper's brother used to own a magic shop at the end of slough gerri haliwell used to drink in the george
• Tommy Walker used to live in slough but he moved to narnia.
• I have seen Iain Lee come into Safeways a few of times.
• geri halliwell lives in langley, elton john has a hosue in windsor, craig david filmed his video for "walkin away" outside Sahan's Store in Cippenham
• Daniella (one nostril) Westbrook lived in datchet for a while
• Slash from Guns & Roses, Gary Numan, Tracy Ullman, Gerry Halliwell, Faith Brown, a veritable talent treasury.
• My boyfriend has brought to my attention that no one seems to have remembered Station Jim, the stuffed dog on Platform 5 of Slough Station. He's well famous
• Ulirika Jonsson went to Burnham Grammar
• George from the human zoo
• Iain Lee (11 o' clock Show) went to Herschel Grammar. Sascha Cohen (Ali G)
• Slough has a town-bred Opera Singer - Willard someone. He studied at Slough Grammar. Ben Freeman, of Emmerdale and Grange Hill, was at school in Slough. Does that explain anything? He also learned to skate at Montem Ice Arena - but not while Torville and Dean were training there.
• All these astronomers: Milton, Herschel, Gray... don't know who they are but were famous when they were alive. We have an olympics racer Mark Johnson who used to live in Slough. No more claims to fame, sorry!
• What about Herschel (astronomer)? Ulrika Johnsson (blonde)who went to school there.
• Tracy Ulman (of crap female comedienne who made it bigger in America)comes from Slough I think, or it could be her mum. Anyway apparently it's from Britwell the Slums of Slough!
• Gary Numan. Raised in Slough and never recovered. Ulrika Johnson. My mate's brother snogged her in the fourth year at school you know.
• Tony di Bart, a one-hit wonder with the song "The Real Thing" about 4 years ago now, lives in Slough and always has. The boy done good.
• Panther (Gladiator) lived in Palmerston Ave, about 2 years ago, (next door to my cousin), George Michael (Singer) was here for a while with Geri (Ex-Spice), MN8 (Band) are from Slough, Lloyd Owusu (Footballer) was bought up in Slough also played for slough and i used to train with him, Mark Richardson (Olympic Runner) is from Slough, Gareth Hurbert (Table Tennis) is an ex-classmate of mine
• Cilla Black lives closeby

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• If "bluey" smith introduces himself to you, get moving. This also applies to all the crackheads that say "hey boss" or "scuse me bruv"
• Bird man look out for him this dude runs around flapping his arms and talkin to the pigeons
• The transvestite man,crazzzzzzy tony(the big balck guy that talks to his can of stella) and evryone else
• how could anyone forget the most famous tramp of Slough High Street - Nobby!?!
• not so entertainers, occasionally stret art, but other thn that talent is pretty small
• There is a Busker who goes by the name of Paul Mann. You can smell him a mile away and he's shit. You can fond him in slough high street, usually next to Virgin music shop. What a tramp
• There is a great P Diddy impersonator who goes by the name of Lelly P.
• No-one seems to have mentioned 'Michael Jackson!' Some man who dresses, looks and dances like Michael Jackson. Goes to Chicagos and most of the other pubs on a Friday or Saturday night.
• lots of tramps, some are entertaining, and occasional malaysian pan pipers. also a big black guy who wheres a green wooly hat, he often has fights with himself
• he's not exactly a buskers but he make me wanna throw money at him (to try and stop him) so has anyone seen that crazy guy with the big headphones (and i mean BIG) on trying to beatbop. he's sometimes at the train station (slough or Langley) i wet myself laughting everytime
• There tens to be some down and outers asking for money and the occasional group of lads spread out down the high street saying thay have been out on a stag due and cant get home and could u spare a pound or so. Sometiomes mad people do mad things with sticks of fire and juggling balls but that is becoming less frequent. +
• that bloke with his annoying pan pipes. great stuff [not]
• This guy called Johnny Del Monte sometimes comes to the highstreet, he plays a variety of instruments, guitar, flute, banjo. Its more embarassing than entertaining to watch.
• loads of buskers and tramps in slough, can be found around the train station, bus station and around the end of the high street near where argos use to be, you'll know their there by the smell of piss. There is one street entertainer that comes to slough sometimes, he sets up his stuff in the middle of the high street, usually a small amp and a tap deck, he has a guitar as well which he pretends to play (quite badly I might add)and then tends to go right up to passers by well pretending to sing (again quite badly)because its all coming out of his tape deck. He is demented and a mence to society.He can sometimes be found in windsor to.
• Theres a funny man who plays the panpipes, near the man who sells the potatoes outside pizza hut, and also the one man band!
• Too dangerous for buskers.You would need a bodyguard for anything over 5p
• BEGGARS ARE EVERYWHERE BUT NOT VERY ENTERTAINING
• buskers are normally of high quality but an awful lot of pure beggars which is not god. all can be found by boots or underpasses
• Slough has some of the worst street entertainers - mostly ones thrown out of Windsor!
• In the high street you get some ghastly buskers on Saturdays. Occasionally you get a ROCKING performer or band, with a sizeable crowd just hanging around them. E.g. the Bolivian pipers last year.
• There used to be a busker who sang in the subway between the Brunel car park and the Observatory. Where did he go anyway???
• tour guaranteed a tramp in slough high street...the place breeds them
• Slough does have quite a few buskers, warning though they seem to have evolved into a species that hunt in groups and keep eacother posted on who to 'ask' for money. Although I must say they are very polite about it all, which is nice. :)
• loads of freaks line the streets at certain times, pretending to be robots or something in the name of art. It's worth a look though and the 2 shopping centres useually have stuff going on @ weekends too
• In the underpass between the Bus/train station and Queensmere shopping center. Or sometimes in the highstreet, anything from saxophone jazz to religious dancing.

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