Just watching the first episode of Marvellous Miniature Workshop on BBC catch up. Really interesting programme but could be even better if the volume of the background music could be dialled down. Otherwise, an excellent programme

What is it about it which makes you doubt it's provenance Johnny?

It's strange to think that, but for happenstance, that sideboard should be rotting away on the seabed. Belfast City Hall has to be one of the most impressive civic buildings and the exhibition is definitely worth a visit.

The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on Alderney 1924-27. Plaque on St Anne's Church commemorating their stay. First image showing Bugle Major Albert Willcocks (left) of the 2nd Bttn DCLI at Fort Albert, Alderney, c.1925.

"The Nunnery" army married quarters in Alderney which housed SNCOs of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from 1924-27. Images from c1924 and 2023. Structure in front is German bunker from the Nazi occupation.

The first tender appears relatively unscathed and in one piece which arguably suggests that the recovered wheel in Kilmurry museum came from the destroyed second tender. Images © Reach PLC. Created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

Site of the second Crossley Tender destroyed in the aftermath of the Kilmichael ambush, Co Cork, on 28th November 1920.