Hi Guys, The day arrived and off to the station we went, on the notice board the train had been cancelled
,we were told to catch a slightly earlier train and change at Crew for the London train. We arrived about the same but a different platform, Nick was waiting at platform 1, we arrived on platform 15 about 100 yards away, it took 45 minutes before we met up, our mobile phone had one number wrong so we could not connect, but all came right in the end.
Nick got a taxi and took us to Cayzer House, were we met Domanic the managing director of the company, he took us all on a tour of the boardrooms, one of which housed Iron Duke in her case, I was presented with a book about the shipping company also a brass plaque with my name engraved on it, this is to go in side the case at a later date.
The 3 board rooms all housed models of the company ships and paintings, there was a bust of Lord Jellico also a painting of Iron Duke, the model in her case was a splended site, the best I have ever saw her looking, the CIC had a tire in her eye, they had fitted two round sections under the hull to fit the model to the base, the glass case was 96 inch x 30 inch high and 15 inch wide, the base was made from verius timbers and stood 34 inches, all together the whole thing stood 64 inches high.
After taking some photo,s and a small amount of video we were taken to lunch at a small resteraunt a few hundred yards away, Jeramey payed for everything, my ribeye steak went down well
After lunch we said our good byes and Nick took us back to Euston Station and we caught the early train home, arriving Runcorn station at 6 pm, so for me it was a long day out, 9 hours was begining to take its toll, but it was all worth it in the end.