Road Trip up North.

I spent a fraught time panicking about potential H/G and it turned out to be the replacement S/S radiator bleed that I had bought specifically to prevent leaks!  That was a tenner well spent! 

I am taking "Pete" out morning or evening when mad dogs and englishmen have toddled off.  MoT man stated it was the best TF he had ever seen, which I, somewhat ungraciously,  countered with "depends how many you have seen."

A correction regarding Percy Toplis.
Toplis was probably responsible for the shooting dead of a taxi driver, Sidney George Spencer, in Andover on  24th April 1920. He promptly deserted and went on the run to London where he spent two weeks parading as a decorated army officer. However he soon realised that he needed to get away and fled to Tomintoul in north east Scotland. Here he was confronted by a game keeper and the local constable and retaliated by shooting and injuring both. Flying south on a bicycle to Aberdeen he reached Carlisle by train and started to walk south along the A6 Carlisle-Penrith road. On Sunday 6th June he was questioned by a suspicious PC Fulton at Low Hesket, 1 mile away from my house. Who, sure that this was the man wanted for the taxi-driver murder, retreated and sought re-inforcements from Penrith. A while later Fulton together with Inspector William Ritchie and Sergeant Robert Bertram drove north and were joined, unofficially, by Norman de Courcy-Parry, the Chief Constable’s son. They spotted Toplis and he took cover in the farm buildings of Romanway near Plumpton. Ritchie challenged Toplis who took to his heels and began shooting at the officers. They fired three shots one of which killed him. It was the Chief Constable's son who took credit for the fatal shot 
The blue plaque at Roman way farm.
Interestingly he was never actually involved in the infamous WW1 Mutiny by British troops.

Thank you David!
I appreciate that correction and hearing the correct version.

I had only been aware of him through The ITV drama based on him and their story is the one I recounted..where he is shown changing uniforms in the trenches and living a life of Riley..
I suppose it is poetic license on behalf of the TV to make him out some hero.
The cottage I pictured is the cottage he fled to.