There's actually an identical statue in Dortmund. Not sure if its in leeds square

I would actually attend for once!

He's more notorious in Bradford. Lives up in Baildon I believe, apparently he's got a real nasty streak in him!



He's become known recently as 'Jesus Man' by the younger crowd but he's always been known as 'The Mad Monk' to me. I quite often see him walking up and down the Saturday afternoon train between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square, which strikes me as cheating a little

There is a [iBoulevard de Leeds[/i in Lille (down the back of the Eurostar Station) that has a British red phone box on the corner (or at least it did have).



Lille is also twinned (tripletted?) with Leeds but I don't know if Leeds has a [iBoulevard de Lille[/i







Edit ... the phone box appears to have been removed. (just looked at Google Streetview)

Does anyone know anything about (and I have christened him this) The Bird Man of Leeds? I see him near our office on Whitehall Quay all the time but I have seen him in and around all of Leeds city centre. He is maybe 50ish, leather jacket, bandanna and always pulling a bag behind him. He basically wanders around everywhere feeding the birds. But he doesnt just sit there and throw bread and await them, he places the bread in what would appear pre-determined spots for them to forage. he doesnt hang around and wait for them either he just buggers off to his next location

anyone ever come across the 'im the king of sahara desert' bloke?, he usually gets on anyone of the busses around the corner in harehills from the medical museum.



he gets on the bus with his army camo trousers and sometimes jacket and token can of stella in his hand, then starts with the bus driver, and to the nearest woman or man who makes eye contact he starts his performace with them, mainly he goes upstairs on busses and sits next to the nearest woman and trys to chat them up with the line above, then says 'you can be one of my queens'



obviously quite a few of you wont need to get busses anymore due to owning cars but in his drunken state he also does it when he gets off the bus and around the bus stop to anyone who gives him any attention, not seen him in a long time but wondered wether any of you have come across him before?

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According to Wikipedia Leeds is twinned with the following.



Leeds City Council has several twinning or partnership arrangements:

Brno, Czech Republic[24[25

Colombo, Sri Lanka[26

Dortmund, Germany[27

Durban, South Africa[28

Hangzhou, China[29

Lille, France[30

Louisville, United States[31

Siegen, Germany[32

It also has "strong contacts" with the following cities "for the purposes of ongoing projects"

Braşov, Romania

St Mary, Jamaica

Stockholm, Sweden

only reason i looked as i was asking my dad as i knew that it was twinned with a city in China but i thought it was Shanghai, sad really!!

None of these current local lunatics can live with [url=http://jerrychicken.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/he-came-back-from-the-war-as-a-cowboy/The Man Who Came Back From The War A Cowboy[/url

I have noticed a bloke for the last few years in pudsey who seems to be under the impression he is a pirate. Seen him on Carlisle road a few times hat and the lot

[urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oluwale[/url

Anyone remember the black fella that used to walk around chapeltown road stripped to the waist in the middle of winter. He was a big bugger so wouldn't imagine many people would have been calling him a poseur or questioning his mental state.

Wasn't one of the Jeffers family was it?



When I used to work at the Jobcentre at the bottom of Eastgate there were a few members of the same family used to come in, a couple of whom were the odd penny or two short of the proverbial shilling and had a reputation for being "eccentric".