Nicked from somewhere else.
Growing up it seemed that nearly everyone had a nickname. What was yours and your mates/people you knew....

Johnny Giro...named because he use to hang about outside houses on Giro Day when Giros were posted and claim it was his Giro and the Postman handed the Giro to him.
Puffer Boots...Got his name in the 70's because he always wore Boots ala Slade and people thought he was Gay.
Rocky Socks...never changed his socks.
Mike...Billy had 'big hair' and one day when he was buring copper wire he was covered from head to foot in soot from the fire and he looked like a microphone.
Updee...one of my brothers use to call me 'Up dil doodle bug' when I was a kid...it got shortened to Updee when I was about 12 and some people still call me Updee.
Johnny Giro had another nickname...Klepto...as in Kleptomaniac.

Just thought of more ..

Snotty/Greensleeves....always had a snotty nose and use to wipe it on his sleeve.
Evil....shaved his eyebrows off once and looked err....Evil.

I used to work with a bald bloke who was nicknamed Mudguard because he was " shiny on top and shit underneath "

He was canny bloke though

One of me Mam's friends was nicknamed Bag over the Head Maureen...she was quite ugly. Lovely woman though and I doubt she knew about the nickname.

Another friend of me Mam's was called Elaine Hunter but was nicknamed Tab Hunter cos she was always on the scrounge for Tabs.

a mechanic called merlin because he managed to do jobs in a different way to others. lad called pill because his surname was beecham. a lass called butter tits because she had the biggest pair in school. lad called pisser because he was taken short in class and the teacher would not let him leave.

A girl i knew was called "cannon balls" because her tits were like cannon balls.

"Flame" bacause he would light his farts.

Goofy

Little Kenny

Phantom Wanker, Who knew her

Once worked with a lad,who had a limp.
His nickname was scooter.

Worked with a lad whose nickname was The Muppet, I think he was aware of it but no one ever called him that to his face.
Not an individual name but Heerema on the docks was called the Maggot Farm, the workers were called maggots.

Rain Cloud

Shifty our window cleaner, so named by my lads….I gave my four year old daughter the money to pay him and she said ‘Your money Mr Shifty’…….I wanted the Earth to swallow me up…never saw him again

Better than Sinbad though from Brookside...always missed the corners!!!

BTW...worked with Snowy for nearly 20 years...he still doesn't know his nickname EVERYONE gave him!!!

That bad eh…?
By the way, we didn’t work…we pontificated on the meaning of life on the roof…in the days before the world went mad.

Mind you, one place they called me the Ginger Prince.

Shifty had a face like chewed welly…that from a 12 year old

I was only kidding...I was expecting a bite...but not even a nibble.

The only name I ever got there was off the chavs who the twins told me they called me the ‘Evil one’…..I was touched

Remember the guy who was a Ref. Called skippy due to to his disability... Everyone called him that.. He used to go to Pools... Is he still alive, canny bloke. Think his name was is Steve??

Lord Cardigan.. Because he wore a Cardigan that never got washed for years.

are nicknames a thing of the past. you do not seem to hear them anymore and my lad who is 37 has never had a nickname for school or workmates. once if you did not have one you were invisable.

Wing nut used to amuse me you can imagine the size of his ears.

People here all have nicknames as soon as they are born, they never call each other by their christian name the one which is on their Birth Certificate. My partners son has 2 friends, one called Ozone the other IPhone, her relations have Moo Moo and Rat as nicknames.

yes and permanent too. calle my step daughter blodwyn after going out with a welsh lad and getting married to him and thats over 25 years ago. even my ex calls her that even if i invented it. had an uncle borst pre ww1 called the senepod kid, shortened to senna who had that for life after overdosing on that stuff.

I was once told a story about a bloke in Liverpool who was losing his hair, and used black shoe polish to hide this. Apparently the poor bugger died due to it as there was something poisonous in the polish that soaked through his skull over a period of time.

His nickname at work was "Cherry Blossom".

I was also told about a bloke at Steetley who had the nickname "Chicken" - so naturally when he got his son an apprenticeship there, the young-un became "The Egg".

He now work as a cleaner in the shopping centre.
Good lad Snotty.
Always have a bit of Poolie banter with him.

Micky 3 Quid.
X Pools Fan.

Wasn't he called Hodgey or Lodgey?

Nah...it's his younger brother David.

I knew a barmaid with one tooth , we called her Juanita ( one eater )

David Lodge.

just wonder how many bald guys were called curly

He was called David, he lived in Carr Street.

Used to drink in the Engineers.
Good lad.
Not sure how he's doing nowadays but his son is always in the Cyril Knowles Stand section near the Town End.