01-10-2024, 11:26 AM
Thanks for all the tyre fitting advice. It is a job to go on the to-do list. I only have to decide what to buy and whether to risk having a go myself.
Until 4 years ago I lived not much than 10 miles from Longstones. Should have done it then perhaps as it is nearer 100 miles to Bawtry Alan and not the easiest of drives. I did that exact run in the modern car back in June to go to the open day at Tickhill castle (which is open only one day a year on the second Sunday of each June between the hours of 2.00 to 4.00 p.m.) as my father was born in the house in the grounds of the castle - I don't tell everybody his father, who owned a Chummy in the 1920's, was the chauffeur. My Dad was a proud Yorkshire man but you can lob bricks into Nottinghamshire from the castle. It has the highest Motte of any castle in England. I had not visited before despite our first house being 2 miles away half-a-century or so ago.
Until 4 years ago I lived not much than 10 miles from Longstones. Should have done it then perhaps as it is nearer 100 miles to Bawtry Alan and not the easiest of drives. I did that exact run in the modern car back in June to go to the open day at Tickhill castle (which is open only one day a year on the second Sunday of each June between the hours of 2.00 to 4.00 p.m.) as my father was born in the house in the grounds of the castle - I don't tell everybody his father, who owned a Chummy in the 1920's, was the chauffeur. My Dad was a proud Yorkshire man but you can lob bricks into Nottinghamshire from the castle. It has the highest Motte of any castle in England. I had not visited before despite our first house being 2 miles away half-a-century or so ago.