Five Famous People from Swindon

 

 

 

 

I feel that we don't celebrate the hothouse of British showbiz talent that is Swindon enough.  So, to remind ourselves of what the North Wiltshire town - home also to the now defunct railway works - has contributed to the arts over the decades, I give you five of Swindon's best.  Do you recognise them all?  Just in case you didn't they are, in order, lovely Diana Dors, equally lovely Billie Piper, acerbic comic Mark Lamarr, magnificent Melinda Messenger and, of course, seventies singing icon Gilbert O'Sullivan, (remember him?). 

Do you know of, or come from, a much ridiculed and unfashionable town which has, unheralded, nurtured a plethora of great British celebrities during their formative years?  If so, let us know and we might run an item similar to this one.  But probably not.