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[Phyll]

As Dick D said in another thread, Graham Smith, The Sausage and Egg Artist has died.

I remember this Video.



http://announce.jpre...ource=jpnw_sthe

[Dicky D]

Well found Phyll. It often amazes me how you find all these threads concerning St. Helens matters. You must spend hours sifting through loads of materials to get what you want. I'm impressed.

I’m thinking also along the lines that we in St.Helens love an eccentric.

Think: Johny Welly, The paperseller outside the Sefton, ‘Buy a paper’.

Darkie Fenney, and others.

What comes out of all this is that we iconalise rather than ostrersize eccentrics.

Can you imagine for one moment the same thing happening in Brighton Milton Keynes or Kent?

It’s a northern thing, isn’t it or am I just myself being eccentric in thinking otherwise?

[Phyll]

Thanks Dick, I just enjoy Googling and providing info. for everyone.

Am I eccentric?

Regarding your question. I'm sure there are eccentrics everywhere,
there are a few over here too where I live.

Edited by Phyll, 26 June 2011 - 07:02 AM.

[Mazzi]

It's so sad to lose another character. I can clearly remember looking in the shop window in Duke Street at his paintings in the early80's, with the price tag of £1,500 (or thereabouts) or 2 sausage and a tin of beans! How I wish I'd had the nerve to go in and give the sausage and beans as I bet the paintings come quite collectable now.