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Beatles fan Summer Strawberry Fields Forever Cole of Snodland asks bank officials to include full name on debit card

When teenage Beatles’ fan Summer Cole opened her first bank account she was left shouting: “Help!”

The 16-year-old trainee hairdresser was asked by bank officials for her full name...so she told them: Summer Strawberry Fields Forever Cole!

The Snodland youngster’s middle names come from John Lennon’s song which was on the Fab Four’s 1967 Magical Mystery Tour album.

Summer Strawberry Fields Forever Cole with her Beatles memorabilia
Summer Strawberry Fields Forever Cole with her Beatles memorabilia

But staff at the bank told Summer that her name was too long to fit onto a debit card.

Summer then begged them to “Please, Please Me” and include all her name...but after discussions with senior staff she had to settle for Summer Forever!

She said: “I am used to people being surprised by my names...and at school I took a lot of stick, sometimes being called banana and other things.

“But I am proud of my names and I would never want to change them.”

It was her Beatles loving dad, photographer Paul Cole, who chose her unusual names - although he initially wanted to call his daughter StrawberryFields Forever!

But her mum Sandra objected, and the couple agreed on on her first name being Summer!

Summer, of Alex Hughes Close, added: “I know the Beatles finished playing more than 40 years before I was born, but I have become a huge fan of their music.

The Beatles. Picture: HARRY GOODWIN / REX FEATURES
The Beatles. Picture: HARRY GOODWIN / REX FEATURES

“I have pictures of the band on my wall and I have some of their albums but my favourite song is Please, Please Me.”

The trainee stylist, who works at Twist Hairdressing Salon in Larkfield when she is not at college, is now planning to become a daytripper heading north.

“I am used to people being surprised by my names...and at school I took a lot of stick" - Summer Cole

She added: “I have never been to Liverpool but I really want to go there next year. It would be great to see where it all started.”

Summer is one of six children and isn’t the only member of her family with a Beatles inspired name - her brother Connor’s middle name is Lennon.

And the teenager is planning on keeping the family tradition going if she has her own children.

“I like the names Jude and Sadie...or even Because...I think they would be great names...but I am not sure I would call my child 'Yesterday', “ she joked.

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