The story of Shap part 10
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Before the M6 motorway there were only two major roads linking England and Scotland - the A1 and the A6.
This series of videos covers stories from one of the most hazardous roads, The A6 over Shap fell in what is now known as Cumbria.
I stayed in Shap for many months around 1965 whilst working doing the ground investigation for the then proposed section of the M6 from Kendal to Penrith. We did a lot of work around the Tebay section and stayed with Freddie and Jean Dickson in a guesthouse right by the Church in the village of Shap. I remember we payed just 5 pounds a week for bed and breakfast and evening meal and Jean even did us a pack lunch. Marvelous memories and marvelous people. I remember Freddie worked on the bin wagon and they had a lovely son called Nigel.
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It was originally uploaded to show a friend when we were in lock down.
As a biker going north or south on the West side of england, I always tend to be on the A6 over shap. Wonderful views and air over Westmorland.
Brilliant doco. Many thanks. Old now, I know, but still very well done.
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It was originally uploaded to show a friend during lockdown.
@@walt-sh7ju Good for you. Thanks again.
I knew Shap as a kid being brought up in Kendal, I have a brother who lives on the Shap Road , lovely memories
Likewise. I took my first attempts at driving on the A6 up Shap from Kendal with my dad in the family car, a year after the motorway had opened
Thanks very much for these videos my old Dad qas a Long distance Wagon driver going to and from Scotland. He used to tell some stories about getting snowed inover Shap.
I'm thinking I'm going to have to drive over there as soon as we can travel again.
Thanks for sharing and keep em coming
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It was originally uploaded to show a friend during lockdown.
Don’t know why this series turned up in my recommendations but glad it did fascinating, my only experience of shap is being hauled along effortlessly by a class 87 electric locomotive while drinking coffee and eating a sarnie.
From a time when Adams fAther wur a lad. Thanks for showing.
I emigrated to Australia in 1960 (when the Preston bypass was still on trial). If I remember correctly, Shap had the reputation of having the longest village street in the world.
P.S. Long live Westmorland!
been up and down it many times with ma dad in his trucks over the years , when i was a bairn, transort cafe at the top 1pt.mug of tea and a giant wagon wheel 1/- shilling, 6d for tea, 6d for W/Wheel biscuit. 5p now adays
I was with my dad in his old 6 wheel Dodge in 1961. He was an owner driver and as well as coal he used to carry casting sand from Kidderminster to Allied Iron founders at Possil Park Glasgow. As he went for crawler gear at the bottom of Shap bank there was a nasty noise from the gear box and I think all the teeth had been stripped from the gear. After a lot of thought and rather than calling for a break down truck he managed to turn the wagon around and proceeded to reverse the two miles to the summit with me walking alomg side. Knowing he had no crawler gear he took a good run at all the other banks on route to Glasgow and just managed to get the load to its destination. We made it back home to Brum without any further problems where I helped dad change the gear box.
Heard tales of drivers reversing up hill because sometimes reverse was lower than 1st.
Bring back that sort of life it was better life’s to fast now
the lady in this programme is a lovely and beatiful does she run a b/b
A brilliant place,used to visit very often, the only place in England where the Golden Eagle used to breed, sadly no longer their anymore. It was a well known site, organised by the RSPB every year for people to go and watch the birds.