Frank Townsend was a schoolboy who along with his friends, Peter Jackson and Roy Bradley, came carol singing at the Vestry one evening in December 1965 and appalled Ena Sharples when they liberally massacred Hark! The Herald Angels Sing outside her door. Hearing they were from Bessie Street, she invited them inside where she was sitting with Minnie Caldwell and asked their names. As Frank was obviously of Asian descent, she asked him where he'd been born and was told Stockport Road. Trying again, she asked where his father had been born and was told Burnley. Complaining that she couldn't get a straight answer out of him, she gave up.