I'v got a copy of the Sheffield Star from January 28 1966.

Theres an ad for the Sheffield Esquire Club featuring amonst others:
The Insect (Hollies style group from Manchester)
The Who , Alan Price , Ivan Meads , The Powerhouse Six .

The ad finishes:

"Next All Nighter?, Very soon! Aren't ours the ultimate!
Everyone comes, even little herbert with his beard on. "

So who was Little Herbert? and did he go (with or without his beard).

(Just noticed the paper is 39 years old tomorrow)

could it be Little Herbert of "The Turbans"?

I think Little Herbert was a well known "Gentleman of the streets" at that time.

tThere was a noted little Herbet who used to frequent Dixon Lane in the 1950,s around the same time that Big Ada was around he was quite well known at the time

I have memories of little herbert...he could be found out walking the streets of sheffield most days and i can even remember seeing him out in derbyshire, he was always well dressed and wore a trilby hat. I first encountered him at Brunswick trinity church on Highfields in the late seventies and a few years later he lived next door but one to my Gramma in totley.