They were quite nice sets - in an old fashioned way. Open stock, but various boxed in bays, and with adverts in frames - which seemed a bit odd.
When I was boy in East Lancashire (in the Fifties) my mother used to like to go shopping in Southport. My father couldn't stand shops (I've inherited that gene), so he hit on the idea of taking me on the electric train (you can't believe how modern/exciting that was) from Southport Chapel Street (as it was) to Seaforth & Litherland (which in those days seemed to be in the middle of nowhere). We then changed onto the Liverpool Overhead Railway and went the full length of the docks, which were heaving with ships and frantic activity. We normally went to the pier head, but once or twice down to Dingle, where the tunnel seemed to be in the cliff face.
All a long time ago now.......
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