20 years ago I asked my great Aunt Cissie, who was born about 1890 and spent her whole 104 years in the Liverpool 8 area, if she remembered such a street entertainer. Quote - "He was a "nigger" you know(she called a spade a spade so to speak!), I think he was an ex slave (a good imagination I think!)we were a bit scared of him, poor man"