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09 Apr 20 - 04:33 AM (#4044807) Subject: Victoria in the gin shop From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler I came across a refference to a song with the above refain and can't find it anywhere. It was written after the GWR broad gauge locomotive Victoria crashed through the buffers at Weymouth and ploughed across the road, coming to rest just short of the hotel opposite. I assume it was a music hall style ditty. Anyone know any more about it. Robin |
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09 Apr 20 - 10:42 AM (#4044867) Subject: RE: Victoria in the gin shop From: cnd Sorry, I found nothing besides (this reference") to the song and a few websites which repeated the same line |
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10 Apr 20 - 02:23 PM (#4045145) Subject: RE: Victoria in the gin shop From: GUEST,Starship ' As a tailpiece, there is a pic. of the Somerset Hotel (photographed 8/01/2012) as seen from the point where the last down train (as reported in the Dorset County Chronicle of 28 Aug 1862) hauled by Broad Gauge Victoria class 2-4-0 loco “Victoria”, only just avoided ending up in the saloon bar having run away down the Upwey bank. This gave rise to the music hall song “Victoria in the Gin Shop”. ' From http://www.keykits.net/WHT/ However, zilch on the song lyrics. |
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11 Apr 20 - 09:08 AM (#4045317) Subject: RE: Victoria in the gin shop From: Richard Mellish I can't help except to observe that the song is a precursor (railway reference there for some) to Dave Goulder's The Man Who Put the Engine in the Chip Shop. |