> My great-grandmother would walk 8 miles to Macclesfield
> each week to sell the product of her hand-loom weaving,
> visit the market and buy a new supply of silk, then
> walk the 8 miles back. Those were the days (or were they?)
>
> Charlie

Luxury! - We used to live in 't shoe box in 't middle o 't road!

Seriously Charlie - there was such a thing as a horse and trap even
then.

I live just over eight miles from Manchester Town Hall on an "A" road
- first bus - 09.35 - last bus 17.35 weekdays.

My first transport here as a toddler - see above - four legs and two
wheels!

Now legs swapped for wheels and the trap is history