Accrington lad Les Bond is the surviving half of poet brothers Alan and Les Bond and up until Alan’s untimely death at the age of fifty-two, the pair would meet two or three times a week to write or to discuss ideas for monologues and poems, a collaboration which had gone on for over four decades

The partnership produced such classics as “Dugdale’s Day Trip to the Sea” (the real reason why Hitler never invaded Britain), “The King’s Visit to Hoghton Tower”, and the truth behind the mystery of the Mary Celeste was made public when they learned the real story of “Sammy, the World Famous Woodworm”. The death of Alan did not dissolve the partnership however, as Les still writes under the name ‘Alan and Les Bond’.

Ill health forced Les to retire from his job as a Fire Officer, but before he retired he wrote many poems for the Fire Brigade for publication during Fire Safety week each September. For this he invented the character ‘Billy Myers' who was 'always having chip pan fires'.

A book of Alan and Les Bond's poems, ‘Lancashire Bonds’, published by Landy Publishing is widely available and costs a mere £4.00