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LOCAL HEROES

Send in your suggestions of men and women of character that have shaped Bridport and the people in it. To Join in register then you can leave comments to this and other articles.

Nominated so far...

FG "TRICKY" BILES
Signwriter and real artist, famed for his superb pub signs also the beautiful welcome to Bridport sign at the east gate. Pop quiz - What pub was nicknamed "The Mouse" after a small detail in its sign and has anyone seen these lately?

Graham, the post office manager
In the 20 years I've been using our post office I've only ever experienced a welcome, good cheer, good advice, a good feeling from buying stamps. I think Graham deserves an OBE actually. He's a star in the post office firmament. Perhaps Bridport Radio has sufficient muscle to raise him on our shoulders before he retires.
ZH

That Bloke in The Wheelchair
I don't know his name. I don't know where he comes from. I've never met him before in my life. I can't understand a word he says. But my god, that man is the happiest soul I've ever seen in a wheelchair, and if that isn't heroic, I'll eat my desk!
CE

I think the guy in the wheelchairs name is Victor? He used to come to Bells when i worked there and shout from the door for me to get what he wanted... and
ya right he really is a cheerful soul...i also agree bout Graham from the PO
AS

David Partridge
Who has stood in Bucky Doo Sq every Saturday morning for the last three years as a demonstration against the Iraq War. A man who really stands up for his principles!
LD

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Users' Comments (15)

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Posted by GSD, on 05-04-2006 20:18,

RE: ""Tricky"" Biles pop quiz - the Masons Arms now Youth Meeting Place North Street was nicknamed ""The Mouse"".

Posted by rustic, on 07-04-2006 09:50,

The Masons or ""Mouse"" became very popular with the ""crowd"" when the Bull copaching bar had closed down and the upstairs of the Greyhound had yet to be opened. I remember nights in there when table skittles was going on and the players had a human wall around the table just over a chain and balls width away. each ball greted with huge cheers or Ooohs and Aahs. Once the upstairs of the Greyhound opened (I am talking about years before moano started running it) and the crowsd of the day had somewhere else to go the Mouse became less well used and eventually closed. It is good to see it being used again for the benifit of Bridport.

Posted by Editor, on 07-04-2006 09:58,

Well done to registered user 'GSD' a prize will be winging its way to you soon.

Posted by The Bat, on 09-04-2006 13:21,

My nomination for local hero would have to go to that market stall holder who cheerfully parkes his white van on the traffic lights outside the town hall every market day, thereby totally obscuring the traffic lights to motorists approaching from East Street. He gets my vote because he's been doing it every market day for years and has never once received a parking ticket from the local police (must be in the freemasons). :)

Posted by OliWard, on 03-05-2006 12:31,

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Posted by sprockley, on 08-05-2006 19:19,

I,ve only got one thing to say DRINK.....drink......drink... DRINK.........drink..drink.... drink .....drink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

Posted by The Bat, on 26-08-2006 19:10,

No no nooo, I think Rob should get a bench and Arthur Woodgate should get a wood gate, 'cos it's a good play on words.

Posted by andy head, on 13-10-2006 12:24,

D'you know I think we should pay some long overdue credit to Bentley, as an ambassador for Bridport he has travelled the far and wide telling filthy jokes and poking fun at the bankrupt futility of modern life. He set up and ran the sorely missed Cavity bar during it's prime years, catalysing a minor cultural revolution in the process. His comedy nights are always classics and his shirts bring a much needed vibrancy to our streets.

Posted by Ivor Bigun, on 17-10-2006 19:08,

I think the guy from Beaminster who writes letters to the Bridport News most weeks, complaining about any and every one. But can be found parking his grey Rover with disabled badge on West Bay seafront each day and then carrying 50kg of fishing gear to the end of the pier,deserves a national hypocritical award !!

Posted by DELBOY IN BRIDPORT, on 25-10-2006 08:07,

I'm with Stretchy Nuts on the Symondsbury Cricket Pavillion. There is a bar, with a barman, a veranda, a huge open green space for chin-surfing, and The Bat can hide in the hedge, picking off stragglers. The only downside is, if you get bored, decide it's a crap party, or REALLY piss someone off, there is no option of slinking off to another pub.

Posted by DELBOY IN BRIDPORT, on 17-11-2006 09:47,

Chesilbank , What do you mean a driving licence! Are you supposed to have something like a television licence or fishing licence ? just to drive cars - it's news to me, you are joking ?? ...come to that I don't believe in any sort of licence .. (Licenced Premises excluded)

Posted by Ivor Bigun, on 18-11-2006 16:01,

How narrow minded goccibos is. Where do people go if they want to get stuff from Argos, Dorchester,Weymouth or Yeovil. Then that's where they end up doing their Christmas shopping, and forget about the shops in Bridders so we all loose out. If we had a national name in the town more people would come in and use the local shops that they probably didn't know existed because they go elsewhere.

Posted by Rustic, on 29-12-2006 15:23,

Why fat people? Fat people are only a strain on the pavements and restaurant chairs of society. Lets face it when was the last time you saw a fat smackie?? The other less radical solution than ooaarghs is (if we take the premise that smack is the major problem here) to leagailse it on the NHS. That way your smackie pops off to a specially designated area (it can be quite seedy and smell of old urine and syringe squirted blood to make them feel at home) and be given a free shot of clean pure heroin once or twice a day. What we have here is a many tier crime busting and resource saving system. No1 the smackies wouldn't have to burgle to feed their habit. No2 the dealers wouldn't have anyone to sell to as the smackies are getting it for free. (if the dealers try to recruit new younger members into their sordid club it should be open season on them. If they want to operate outside the law then the law should offer no protection for them.) No3 the NHS wouldn't have to spend millions a year treating the effects of smackies shooting up vim, baking powder etc. Before the Daily mail readers get on their high horse about the country going to the dogs and everyone getting high on smack, ""wake up""! It is readily available now and the vast majority of the population decide that life is a better option than enslavement into junkiedom. That would continue.

Posted by dragon, on 26-02-2007 23:14,

three months ago Adrian Lessey had his legs removed in an horrific accident on the A35 west of bridport when a 90 year old woman drove into the back of his van as he was loading his tools in it. How devastating that must have been to a 46 year old man!!! I saw him in South Street the other day, just two months after the accident, he was driving a motorised sit-on vehicle, all shiny and brand new and he had the biggest smile on his face! There is a man who has been to hell and back and i know it wont be long before he will have prosthetic limbs and will be walking and working again, because of his determination and great courage.I want to nominate him to be a local hero of the best kind! He sets an example to us all and smiles in the face of extreme adversity, thank you, Adrian and the very best of everything to you mate, dragon

Posted by Ivor Bigun, on 09-03-2007 22:12,

No amount of compensation can make up for what Adrian has suffered from this accident. I do hope in time he may be able to carry on in his work trade or at least part of it. As Dragon has said, it is great to see him out and about again.And i also would nominate him as a Local Hero.

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