Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres

"Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres" is track two of Bedsitter Images (CBS, October 1967), 3:59 on Wikipedia and 4:01 on MusicBrainz, and also on the 1970 reissue. Swiss Cottage is a district of north London. From the lyrics on his official site, it follows a chance meeting in a bookshop with a young woman, an evening that leads to an offer of accommodation she declines because of school and family, and the narrator left unsure what he gained or lost; Stewart gives no commentary. The official spelling there is "Manouvers".

It has been reissued on To Whom It May Concern 1966-1970 (1993), the 2007 The First Album CD, Images: His First Three Albums (2011), and You Should Have Listened to Al (2020), and live versions from Bournemouth in 1966 and Warwick University on November 8, 1970 are on The Admiralty Lights. No single release, chart history, video, covers or samples were found.