A lot of this stuff and these characters are in that
Boys From the Mersey book - Love reading about Scouse characters like the above.
Anybody remember The Bald Eagle from the Bull Ring?
He'd be well dead now. Old face round town, the Penny Farthing, Wine Lodge, McCardles and that. He only had one ball. It was enormous, like a fucking casey. He used to pull it out in the ale house all the time.
One day, he came in the Bee Hive trying to tap everyone. The manager lashed him. He disappeared, came back twenty minutes later, pulled out a fresh ten pound note and shouted at the manager... Best bum in Liverpool, lad. Best fuckin bum in Liverpool. He got a bevvie and sat down at the bar.
He had a new coat on all. Nice big padded winter job. It was fucking freezing outside. He jumped up and started showing off he's new coat, calling everyone in the pub a freezing knobhead. Within ten minutes, 2 bizzies came in and pulled him out the alehouse. He'd been to Dickie Lewis's robbed the coat and left he's auld one on the hanger. Soft auld twat had left his dole card in he's old coat's pocket.
I don't half miss them days in Liverpool back then.