Years ago I saw the plate that matched my surname. It was available for£1,750. Mrswwombat said no.
It sold later at auction for £25,000.
Luckily I’m minted and know my surname!
I saw Del Shannon somewhere in Brighton in the sixties. Must’ve been a support band there.
Most recent have been the Silver Street Band at Milverton and the Oxford Philharmonic at Cheltenham.
I’ve aged.
Another HCGS ex-pupil writes : always the most anticipated partnership when Parks and Dexter teamed up. My memory says it never failed, but that’s what age will do.
R. I. P .
We’ll, a quick trip to Google translate reveals all. Les Bians is a corruption of Les Bains, or the baths.
All three have baths in them, even Swindon, allegedly.
So, everybody was right, including the little known fact that in some rural parts of France, all three teams are known as Les Bians, though I haven’t used Google translate to verify.