Do You Have Any Famous Relatives.....

or not so famous.... or famous for the wrong reasons...

My Uncle is shakin stevens... (true story)

& my nan (god rest her soul) was famous for swearing like a trooper...

Shakin Stevens? Seriously?

yeah... serious..is my nans brother!

Can you ask him if it's true he used to rehearse in a garage of a house on Britten Road in Penarth? I used to live next to said house and that was the rumour amongst us kids back then. Would love to know if there was ever any truth in it or just one of those terrible lies that got out of hand.

In other news, i'm infamous for being clumsy (see yesterday's speaker related story)

Arkay v2.0 wrote:Can you ask him if it's true he used to rehearse in a garage of a house on Britten Road in Penarth? I used to live next to said house and that was the rumour amongst us kids back then. Would love to know if there was ever any truth in it or just one of those terrible lies that got out of hand.

i dont speak to him... he didnt come 2 c my nan when she was dying on her deathbed nor the years leading up... so bit of a sore subject... but as for the rehearsing bit.. my granddad used to chauffer him and the sunsets around & when he was first starting he did used to rehearse there for a short time but moved on when semi famous 2 rehearsing in a church hall on grand avenue, ely (church of the resurection)

Brother in laws matt Kilgallon :)

A relative on my wife's side of the family was married to Charles Stephens, who killed himself going over Niagara Falls in a barrel in the 1920s. He was a hairdresser who got up to all sorts of stunts, and was known as the Demon Barber of Bedminster. He put an anvil into the bottom of the barrel for ballast, tied his legs to it and tied his arms to the side of the barrel. The barrel hit the rocks, but the anvil kept going. I believe they found one arm and a shin bone afterwards. The Darwin awards could have been invented for him.

The Tonker wrote:A relative on my wife's side of the family was married to Charles Stephens, who killed himself going over Niagara Falls in a barrel in the 1920s. He was a hairdresser who got up to all sorts of stunts, and was known as the Demon Barber of Bedminster. He put an anvil into the bottom of the barrel for ballast, tied his legs to it and tied his arms to the side of the barrel. The barrel hit the rocks, but the anvil kept going. I believe they found one arm and a shin bone afterwards. The Darwin awards could have been invented for him.

Oh wow - - you sure he hasn't received a darwin award, thats pretty special.

A x number of times removed cousin is a former British Lion. Not one you remember.

My nan went to her grave beleiving her father had gone to America and become Charlie Chaplin's stunt double. My mother researched her family tree and discovered he'd actually gone to Gilfach.

Ernie Curtis was a cousin of my grandad and they were both distant cousins of Rick Parfitt. Did I hear a Rick who?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krK7Q49o6uA

Kamuza wrote:A x number of times removed cousin is a former British Lion. Not one you remember.

My nan went to her grave beleiving her father had gone to America and become Charlie Chaplin's stunt double. My mother researched her family tree and discovered he'd actually gone to Gilfach.

Ernie Curtis was a cousin of my grandad and they were both distant cousins of Rick Parfitt. Did I hear a Rick who?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krK7Q49o6uA

My family on my mother's side maintain that I am a distant relative or Rick Parfait of Creme Brûlée