The Royal Navy battleship HMS Victoria sinking off Tripoli, Lebanon, with the loss of 358 crew, after being accidentally rammed by HMS Camperdown on 22 June 1893.

“All fire and no smoke, a very Good Flint or a very Good Steel, do you want a Good Flint and Steel.”

Southport, For a Holiday In Wintertime’, LMS poster, 1925

Ok, it’s seriously difficult for me to give credence to a poster portraying Southport as a place of bustling sophistication. This was a resort where I happily expended vast amounts on the arcades as a child and did - and saw - little else of note.