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Notes: The second Fivepenny Piece album, like the first, contained
a mixture of different styles, but this time the humorous and nostalgic Lancashire songs (such as
A Gradely Prayer, Home Made Brew and I'm Henpecked) were
interspersed with the "pop" or "contemporary folk" oriented numbers. The band were gaining in popularity
across the country, partly thanks to their TV appearances, and this LP managed the lower reaches of UK Top 40 pop album charts - quite
an achievement!
The album cover shows the band posing next to a steam locomotive at the Dinting Railway Centre, Glossop, a
former museum devoted to the preservation of old railway engines and equipment. The centre closed in 1990 and
the stock relocated to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway in Yorkshire.
For those interested, the
loco shown in the picture is the 1935-built 5XP "Jubilee" Class 4-6-0 Bahamas no. 5596, in its
pre-war LMS livery. It served BR until 1966 and it was saved from scrap in 1967 by enthusiasts who set up
the Dinting Railway Museum to preserve it. If you want to know any more about the loco, have a look at the
websites of the Bahamas Locomotive Society and
UK Heritage Railways.
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