We kicked off beside HMS Victory

They wouldn't let us dance on her in case we broke something (and quite right too!)

Here we are, ready to dance the traditional warm-up dance - Dilwyn

Chris, Ali, Louise and Nikki nearest

Then Eddie, Mike, Kelly and Anne

Something else being danced at the pointy end of Victory

Chris, Eddie, Ali, Mike and Louise

Eddie, supported by the lagerphone

The end of a Hay-on-Wye

Note the security men watching from Victory's deck

HMS Warrior

Our second location

All hands on deck on HMS Warrior

Ali, Eddie, Chris, Anne, Nikki, Louise, Kelly and MikeG

Anna, Joe, Jane and Vera were engaged in picture taking.

Brimfield on HMS Warrior

Colin, Eddie and Mike suffer at the hands of Chris, Anne and Ali

Anne, Ali and Chris on the receiving end

More of Brimfield (We will, we will, rock you!)

Vera, Anna, Louise, Kelly and Nikki provide the accompaniment

Witchmens Thistle

Witchmens Thistle, coming to a close

Anna, posing suggestively with one of the deck guns.

Evidently, size does matter

Louise (on her first day out in kit) and Kelly

Ali at the ships wheel

Left hand down a bit!

The full ships company on HMS Warrior On the bridge:

Louise, Nikki, Anne, Kelly, Joe, Colin, Anna The deck-hands: Jane, Chris, Mike, Ali, Eddie, Vera

All the nice girls love a sailor!

Ali, Chris and Anna, with a jolly tar they picked up at the dockside

The dockyard police, making sure we behaved ourselves!

Chris, Ali and Colin

Off to lunch at Port Solent, thence to the Watercress Line

We were greeted by Steve, the Station Master

Ali, Colin and Chris surround her

Dancing at Ropley station

aka Great Worthy if you watched Midsomer Murders a few days before our visit (the grisly discovery was in the booking office just behind Ali)

Hay-on-Wye just finishing

Musicians from the other sides joining in

More info about the Watercress Line at www.watercressline.co.uk