A place as barren, uninhabited and pipe laden as the Wirral....aren't there more hospitable places to get an MOT!

There are indeed. As per usual however I left it until the last moment to try and find somewhere and the only place I could find open on a Saturday with time to fit me in was the AA service place in Halfords at Thurrock.

It is a horrible, but at the same time interesting, place.
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