The Bishop

Bishop in Stoke Damerel churchyard

Albert Fisher was known as"The Bishop" because of his name... Fisher.  An Archbishop of Canterbury had been called Fisher and Albert was fond of telling people that he was related to that elevated prelate!  This, of course, was not the case but, it didn't matter and his fellow dossers called him Bishop nonetheless.  Albert slept under a tree in Stoke Damerel graveyard on occasion and an experience that he recounted from one sojurn in the graveyard [a conversation with a fox] is shown here. His usual accommodation was at the Salvation Army Hostel in King Street which of course no longer exists.

The Bishop's most impressive 'vision' occured when, 'the sun had been shining through the tree, that every single leaf had turned into a man with a top hat, that each man with a top had had a pint of beer in his hand and that each and every one of them had wished him "Good Morning!"

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Re: The Bishop

The Bishop
Robert also called him:'King Albert',always walking with his head upp
in the air,talking in poetrie.
A certain dialect, i could not understand,my english in that time,was not good
enough,but i understoad,always talking loud to himself.
One day,Robert asked me to sit on the wall in front of his portraitshop,talking to him and slowly putting my blouse out.So,i did.
This was around 1972.
He kept on talking all the time and meaby,he did not notice,i was sitting half nude
on the wall,on the squar of the Barbican.
But all the neighbours were hanging out of the window and waved angry and upset,with cloves at me.
Robert was waching this all,behind his window from the portaitshop and was
smiling.