Day Out From Thornaby

Do you remember ?

Thornaby Road when it was nothing but a twisting lane all the way to the New Inn

or the long walk to the Half Moon Inn (another one),

the two mile cottages,

snagging turnips after a day's swimming at Leven,

the old corner shop just on the Leven Bridge forever being hit by wagons,

the lady who owned it trying to create a nature reserve in the pool,

getting the bus from the Fox Covert to Thornaby - a treat in itself,

what about the log on the River Leven,

bet you thought it was only Ingleby residents who knew about that, well we swam there as kids.