678. Welsh Idiosyncrasies - Nickname Series (80)

After World War II there was a window cleaner named Samuel-"Shammy"-Davies.  After his son was demobbed from the army, he joined the business and was known as Shammy-Davies-Junior.

Keith Richards of Blackwood.

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