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  1. Welchester
    I don't think the shirtbutton livery is available. The GWR options are "Great Western" and plain green. You would need to source and apply a shirtbutton transfer. Not too difficult. https://www.minervamodelrailways.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Order-form-56xx.pdf
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    Is that The Lad Himself?
  3. Welchester
    What's the difference between a rich Scotsman, a poor Scotsman and a dead Scotsman? A rich Scotsman has a canopy over his bed. A poor Scotsman has a can o' pee under his bed. A dead Scotsman canna pee at all.
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    I once knew a clergyman called Cliff Warren. He had a seagull on his head and rabbits up his bum.
  5. Welchester
    Nice model. My dad (who was a railway manager in Gloucester) persuaded one of the signalmen to show me around in the early 1970s. Sadly, I remember very little of it.
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    Not to forget Britain's entry into the EEC, which brought about such delights as this. Be afraid, be very afraid!
  7. Welchester
    Is that Lexi Con?
  8. Welchester
    No. In US English. You're referencing an American source. Fowler's Modern English Usage, rev. Burchfield 1997.
  9. Welchester
    That is, however, an example of American usage. From the same page: (my bold)
  10. Welchester
    You're absolutely right with regard to memorials, but I think the decision about further interments still rests with the incumbent, not with the family or heirs of the deceased.
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    There couldn't be any question over the ownership of the grave; if it's in a churchyard it belongs to the church. Full stop. I'm not sure it's possible to own a body (apart from your own - haha), but to exhume one requires a Faculty from the Chancellor of the Diocese, which I couldn't see being issued in these circumstances.
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    Or a slice of carrot - the Candid Camera gag. https://youtu.be/92DPi1Idz3E?feature=shared
  13. Welchester
    On the other hand, 'gay' had a (hetero)sexual connotation from Victorian times, and even in the 17th Century. https://www.etymonline.com/word/gay It appears in the novels of Compton Mackenzie with regard to prostitution.
  14. Welchester
    So do the beers from this Staffordshire brewery: https://www.titanicbrewery.co.uk/ (Captain Edward Smith was a Stokie.)
  15. Welchester
    It is possible to change your user name, but you can't do it yourself. You would have to contact AndyY.
  16. Welchester
    And the photograph is the only colour shot I've ever seen of one in Great Western days.
  17. Welchester
    The provision of three platforms suggests that at times traffic must have been quite intensive. When the Diocese of Monmouth was created in 1921, one of the madder schemes for a cathedral (before St Woolos, Newport was chosen) was to put a roof on Tintern Abbey.
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    Neil Parkhouse's West Gloucester & Wye Valley Lines (Lightmoor Press) has some excellent colour photographs of Tintern Station c. 1937. https://lightmoor.co.uk/books/west-gloucester-wye-valley-lines-second-edition/L8405
  19. Welchester
    It was, I think, @The Johnster. It made a profound impression.
  20. Welchester
    Sorry to hear this. There were plans for a volume on the Eastern Valley, but how far advanced I have no idea,
  21. Welchester
    Even rarer was the Slough-built Citroën Bijou. https://www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/slough/bijou/bijou.html
  22. Welchester
    It may have been mentioned earlier, but 1925 starred in the 1949 film The Chiltern Hundreds. https://www.reelstreets.com/films/chiltern-hundreds-the/
  23. Welchester
    Known, I believe as 'Housey'.
  24. Welchester
    I always look out for it when leaving Bewdley Tunnel.
  25. Welchester
    I don't like to disagree with the good Doctor, but isn't it Polanski's The Pianist?
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