Merseycider

Little Baby Nothing - Manic Street Preachers

I'm Getting Buried In The Morning - Half Man Half Biscuit

Baba O'Riley - The Who

Man Of The World - Peter Green / Fleetwood Mac

O Lucky Man - Alan Price

Big Seven - Judge Dread

Return The Gift - Gang Of Four

The Champion Dung Spreader - The Wurzels

Hello 25kV. Sorry can't help with your sparking issue and apologies for thread drift but sneaking in on the left of the photo is a really interesting warship. RTC red / blue, panto and what looks like an APT bogie? Ooo. Any chance of seeing the beast in full and what's the story? Jonesy

Hello Ducky. I too missed them but get on the Accurascale site now, I've just been in and they're in stock to order now. Good luck.

Love Is A Wonderful Colour - Icicle Works

Billy Anorak and Steamport Southport, I love the pictures, thanks ever so much for posting them. Whilst on the subject of liveries I'm sure you'll already know that as well as BR blue with full yellow ends, there was for a period BR blue, small yellow panel. I've only seen about 3 phots of the SYP jobbies, only one of which is in colour in the splendid book 'Merseyside Electrics' by Jonathan Cadwallader & Martin Jenkins (Ian Allan, ISBN 978-0-7110-3417-4, Published 2010). The photo is by A.F. Graham and shows a 503 at Wallasey Grove Road in Feb 71 and the caption states that the yellow panel first appeared on Wirral EMUs in 1967. So it seems that at least one of them lasted a few years like that and also raises the possibility that 502s were similarly treated. Jonesy

Over The Hill - John Martyn

Take me I'm Yours - Squeeze

In A Big Country - Big Country

Fools Gold - Thin Lizzy

Eyes Without A Face - Billy Idol

Unconvincing, not this one

Hello Billy. Birkenhead lad myself so always interested in everything Wirral-related. I'm no oracle but I recently bought 'Birkenhead Railways A Photographic History' by the Merseyside Railway History Group published by Lightmoor Press: ISBN: 9 781915 069030 (purchased from Strathwood). Not only is it a smashing run-through the many & various lines / stations / docks etc with stacks of pics (all b/w) I've not seen before, it has a Birkenhead Woodside 'chapter' with 29 photos / captions and in there is a photo of the very ticket office you're asking about. You're bang-on, it is the white structure and the photo is an end-on shot from, I think, the graving dock side. The caption reads 'A close-up of one end of the 'temporary' booking office which was actually used throughout the life of the station unlike the unused booking hall shown earlier'. The 'shown earlier' refers to 2 photos with the accompanying captions: Ist pic 'The decorative ecclesiastical style roof rafters in the original booking hall, beautifully carved but generally usneen and unadmired at a cost of just under £20,000 in 1878. The station was designed by Robert Johnson'. (pic credit: Stan Roberts collection). 2nd pic 'Another scene showing the intended main entrance and booking hall with stonework detail over the windows and at the base of the roof supports. The wooden dividers and small office reflect the actual use of the area for parcels, not passengers'. (pic credit Stan Roberts collection). There's also a photo looking into the station from the throat that I've not seen before and there are 3 photos taken in 1957/58 relating to the graving dock extension demolition work. Thanks to that Thatcher Govt I've been in exile for a long time now but if you happen to live in Edinburgh I'd be only too happy to let you borrow it. Well almost. It'd actually cost you a couple of pints of the finest cider available in any pub of your choosing. All the best. Jonesy

Fade to grey - Visage

Ha ha, nope. So much so I somehow managed to forget it despite the pain I felt for Jack Nicolls, Jolyon Palmer and Jennie Gow as they stoically tried to avoid both sleep and hysteria . OK, I enjoyed almost the entire season.

Thanks LNER and BR. Great explanation, appreciated.

Apologies for JV. I have watched so many 'Grand Prices' that I remember Max's dad racing. In those days they were called Grands Prix. If LHs tyres are an important factor then was he somehow not allowed to pit, change tyres and re-take the position at the front? That's not a wind-up, I genuinely don't understand how if it was OK for the second place driver to do that and re-gain his place then why would that not have applied to LH? Does anybody want to admit that all they actually cared about was winning, the rules stuff is just bluff & bluster because your tribe should have won. Like I said not one eyelid would have batted in the LH camp about the rules if LH has just stayed ahead for one lap. Same as footy, ooh ref that's a shocker when it's awarded against you, not a peep when you get a dodgy decision in your favour, just a wry shrug knowing that you got away with one. Difference, nobody talks about court cases over decisions made by officials on the footy pitch because ultimately it's entertainment, isn't it? I have been mightily entertained by F1 for THIS entire season. Frankly the last time anything came close inevitably involved Michael Schumacher (although Ralf was a bonus entertainment package, but ultimately disappointing like a coffee Revel), both of whom remind me of Max. Back to the point, F1 had become about as far from entertainment as you could get, track position at the front only ever changing via clever tyre and pit stop strategies, where's the racing? This season, now there's the racing. I was very impressed with how Lewis handled things immediately after the race, took it like a pro. Sets a good example.

Perhaps I'm the only person in the UK who actually witnessed the crash that led to the safety car. Surely the safety car wasn't a disputable rule interpretation, not a rhetorical question, fact. At that point LH was leading and when the race resumed all LH had to do was to stay ahead for ONE lap. Facts. But wait, oh no, JV not only legally but spectacularly overtook LH to take the win. I strongly suspect that not a single one of the discontented would have raised a whisper if LH had stayed in front to take the win. So just how would that have tightened up the awful regulations and decision making that everybody's now so expert in interpreting? After all these are the same regulations that nobody felt particularly bothered about when LH was winning. I smell bad loser only marginally diluted by an ocean of hypocrisy. Listening to all the noise one might as well argue that the crash was pre-determined to manipulate JV chances of winning. But in reality that's all it did, offer a chance not certainty, and the result was actually decided on the track. Just saying.