Tony and the tiddleywink: I remember that happening - 1971 - I know because I only went to Whitby once in the 70s and that was it. He was so jubilant that he'd got the tiddleywink in the pint ... it's not as easy as it looks! That was also the year when someone dropped a contact lens in the road late one night. Amazingly, Mike Harding found it ... we said it was because he was closer to the ground than most people! In fact, I got to Whitby that year thanks to Mike. I hitched from manchester, and got as far as York when he stopped to give me a lift. He had a VW beetle, plus wife, 2 children, sister in law and Paul Graney .. then me as well. How did we all get in? Perhaps I've counted too many people.... we couldn't ALL have got in.
Back to Tony Wilson - he was also a train fanatic. One Sunday evening at the Brunswick pub in Crewe when the folk club was upstairs, Tony was standing in the bar ... been on some railway trip (this WAS Crewe...) and had called in for a drink before going home to Liverpool. Must have been mid-ish 70s.
Derek