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Yet nowhere in the grounds of Liverpool Lime Street will you be cautioned to so much as restrain your alligator. Guerrilla coffee vendors, have, as far as station signage goes, free run of the place. Choral societies, cricketers and those with loud-hailers may carry on as they please — at least, we suppose, until asked to stop. | Yet nowhere in the grounds of Liverpool Lime Street will you be cautioned to so much as restrain your alligator. Guerrilla coffee vendors, have, as far as station signage goes, free run of the place. Choral societies, cricketers and those with loud-hailers may carry on as they please — at least, we suppose, until asked to stop. | ||
But should a young nipper skip across the platform with a freshly-fashioned balloon-dog, he risks censure. True: the sign does not go say ''how''. Would he be arrested? Marched to a cashpoint and ordered to pay an on-the-spot fine? | But should a young nipper skip across the platform with a freshly-fashioned balloon-dog, he risks censure. True: the sign does not go on to say ''how''. Would he be arrested? Marched to a cashpoint and ordered to pay an on-the-spot fine? | ||
But | The [[JC]] did not wait around long enough to find out. | ||
But the local urchins milling around the station, clutching their R&B 45s, earned from rough trade with itinerant American seamen,<ref>This is the [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/01/liverpool-merseybeat-cunard-yanks-sailors-taught-britain-to-rocknroll foundation myth] of the British Invasion.</ref> seemed ''uneasy''. They did not seem minded to run the gamut of this balloon diktat. Anyone familiar with Liverpudlian street urchins will know this to be out of character. | |||
Somehow, in Liverpool, the humble balloon has earned its own special category of turpitude. What can have happened? Was the fat controller one day plagued by balloons, flipped out and decided to get his own back? Has it helped? | Somehow, in Liverpool, the humble balloon has earned its own special category of turpitude. What can have happened? Was the fat controller one day plagued by balloons, flipped out and decided to get his own back? Has it helped? | ||
If anyone knows, do write in and let us know. | If anyone knows, do write in and let us know. | ||
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