41 years on the street with Billy Tatler

41 years on the street with Billy Tatler

“Liam Gallagher once bought a pair of John Lennon sunglasses off me for 3 quid! And he asked if could have 2 for a fiver!” says street trader Billy Tatler. A familiar face on Eastgate street, he recently celebrated 41 years of street trading. A lifelong Cestrian ( apart from 2 years living on Jersey) he became a street trader in 1984 after an earlier career that saw him travelling around the country. “ Some of the places I went to , like Leeds a…