I thought it was "Bangs like a belt fed mortar"? And no, I haven't met her either....
"Station bicycle store" - WRAF accommodation. Can say that now, political correctos, 'cos there's no such thing as a WRAF (or WAAF) any more. Apart from Susannah York in my dreams, of course....
One simile I once heard from that famous Geordie VC10 air engineer instructor "As cold as a well-diggers chuff"