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.

“Taranto Harbour, Swordfish from ‘Illustrious’ Cripple the Italian Fleet, 11 November 1940” by Charles David Cobb.