25-03-2020, 09:05 PM
In 1992 my only car as a student was an RN saloon, I used to travel between Glasgow and Bristol each term in it to visit my parents.
It took about three days each way, the very first journey home I stayed with Tony and Anne Griffiths in Wardlow - a little off piste if you google a direct route! They looked after us very well and we are still in touch today - thank you.
Latterly I took a route to Westmoreland, then to through the Birkenhead Tunnel and on through places like Northwich, Middlewich and Nantwich. After this we would normally head towards Dave and Hillary Tedham's place near Bewdley and then on to Bristol the next day.
This was all before SatNav - we used a huge number of OS maps to keep us on the smallest roads - it was fabulous and I miss it greatly.
We were to do the very same route this summer in our 1926 Austin H 12/4 Clifton, to surprise my niece by taking her to the Grad. ball at the hotel and in the same car her mother got married in. This secret was divulged to her and my sister last week when it became clear to me that it was not going to happen just now.
Stay safe everyone.
It took about three days each way, the very first journey home I stayed with Tony and Anne Griffiths in Wardlow - a little off piste if you google a direct route! They looked after us very well and we are still in touch today - thank you.
Latterly I took a route to Westmoreland, then to through the Birkenhead Tunnel and on through places like Northwich, Middlewich and Nantwich. After this we would normally head towards Dave and Hillary Tedham's place near Bewdley and then on to Bristol the next day.
This was all before SatNav - we used a huge number of OS maps to keep us on the smallest roads - it was fabulous and I miss it greatly.
We were to do the very same route this summer in our 1926 Austin H 12/4 Clifton, to surprise my niece by taking her to the Grad. ball at the hotel and in the same car her mother got married in. This secret was divulged to her and my sister last week when it became clear to me that it was not going to happen just now.
Stay safe everyone.