Salt on the roads.

[Reckless Rat]

It was usually the climb up to Salters Bridge from the Flouch that closed the road. Not a steep climb but lorries usually got stuck near the Dog & Partridge and that put the kybosh on it. (managed to keep on thread using the reference to Salters Bridge which is an old pack horse bridge used to transport salt from Cheshire to Sheffield in the days before Austin Sevens were invented. It used to be the county boundary between Yorkshire & Cheshire in the days when Dave Wortley was a lad.