Actually, it was Colin Bower, not Bowyer.

Trivia for Foaks completists: the 'Bo' came not from his surname but from his amusement on hearing train-spotters referring to certain diesels as 'Bo-Bos'.

As for 'Foaks', he was a regular at a session in Farningham, Kent, where it was the practise to book floor-spots by writing your name and home town on a blackboard. He wrote 'Bo, 7oaks', crossing the 7 in the continental way. The MC read this as 'Foaks', and a legend was born.

I'm meeting a couple of his other school friends down in Kent next week: no doubt a glass or two will be raised to his memory.