Hullo, so I'm the
noble guy idiot both who messaged OP originally on ebay - let me explain myself a bit. (I know two new accounts showing up will look mighty suspicious, so
please ask me for some kinda verification or check IP as needed).
I was browsing steel Raleighs and saw a firetruck red 531 Raleigh USA in my frame size potentially going for... 50 quid, I think? That surprised me. What double surprised me is that, from my real limited knowledge, was that it had brifters on. And some other stuff, like color coordinated bar tape and a bottle cage. That bike was taken care of, so I figured that whoever owned it would have wanted it in good hands (and whoever was selling didn't know much about it).
Anyhow, I checked the seller's account and saw two more 531s - a Barron and the aforementioned Barron trike. I've never heard the name Barron before (I'm not a Brit, so correct me if he's locally known). I googled and found out about Barry Barron's recent passing.
At this point, I figured there were two main possibilities: either the seller was related to the deceased, and thus I would feel bad about them blindly selling off three bikes, or (sorry, OP, it's really common) that those bikes were stolen, in which case, it was better that the cyclists get a look at these.
@meganx97 And also Ebay has a policy against "conducting sales elsewhere", so I figured I'd better not risk saying "no wait go to a cycle forum and list it in the sales thread instead".
So, I messaged the ebay seller (I did my best to explain it was about all three of the bicycles) and recommended they list on, quote, cyclechat or retrobike or reddit or something.
[I guess it's high time I made an account here, I've been lurking a while anyway.]