Indeed I can wincingly remember one about refrigerated corpses and another about premature ejaculation at a certain north London engine shed.

Then there was noise of insects chirping in the grass and of steam escaping from the locomotive boilers in the engine shed.

I could hear a number of noises almost like those in an engine shed; and the place rocked with that beating thud.

While he issued directions through a telephone to what, I presume, was the engine shed, I drew up a couple of telegrams.

It is evident that he entered the engine shed through a skylight, which seems to show lawful business was not on his mind.

Another street to the left; but at the end of it we saw only a tavern, some tall rails, and an old engine shed.

Far ahead the panting engine shed from its open fire-box an aureole of glaring red as the stoker fed coal into its rapacious maw.

A gang of platelayers and navvies were making a new siding by the station, and sounds of hammering also came from the engine shed.

Dodging sparks, they arrived at the doorway of the monstrous engine shed guarded by one of Harry's heavies, who glared even at his employer.

Beyond the engine sheds, they raced beside an iron fence.

Whoever you can fetch, come with them to the south of the engine sheds at dusk.

Tickets £12 in advance, £14 on the door For The Engine Shed, walk in or tel: 0844 888 8766.

If only the window fastenings would prove refractory and hinder them till he could steal behind the engine sheds and reach the big gates!