The bowler-hatted, striped-trousered, brolly-carrying, tea-drinking and red-tape-wrapping caricature of the civil servant is a figment of the cartoonists' vivid imagination.
Whereupon she attacked me with her "brolly" and tried to knock my hat off.
I am talking not about commuters who travel to the area with pin-stripe trousers, brollies and bowler hats but about people who live within sight of the shipyard gate.
