Richard Thomas, known to all as "Dirty Dick", was a Welsh rag-and-bone man who helped Ena Sharples move her belongings into the Community Centre flat using his cart in June 1971. Ena promised to let Dick have anything she was throwing away in exchange for his help but the sentimental pensioner decided to keep everything. Dick wasn't happy about this, but stopped short of accusing Ena of getting his help under false pretences, telling her instead that she'd missed her calling and that she should have been a lawyer.