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Winner for Most Creative Student Tree: The MD Class of 2025 went with a medical theme and designed their holiday tree to resemble a stroke that occurs on the left side of the brain. Deborah Dimaya photo.
Seen in Stevenage garage in November 1977. The unpopular MS class was already in decline at this time and LN replacements from Hatfield had started to arrive. Only 3 out of 7 were still on the road and MS2 had the honour of being the last one in use when withdrawn a year after this photo. All 7 were eventually scrapped.
Whistling Willie was a Perth eccentric who was renowned for his obsession with the Glovers' Michaelmas dinner. Whenever he was asked, he could immediately answer how many days there were until the next dinner. Willie was an eleemosynary of the wealthy Glover Incorporation of Perth, [ie one who received its charity], and as that meant he was invited to the annual feast it might explain his obsession .
But he was also concerned about getting a wife. Willie saw himself as a 'lion' who needed a 'lioness' to wed, preferably a Glover's daughter. Wandering the streets of Perth, he would give out a great 'lion's roar', in the hope of attracting a spouse. He never did.
Willie was apparently treated fairly well by the citizens of Perth and was rarely teased. He died of apoplexy in 1883.
Ref: GB252/MS2/23/6