Before The By Pass
A Memory of Greenhead.
In the 1960s winter frost would make going up Greenhead and Glenwhelt Bank too slippery for cars and lorries - they would need to wait for it to thaw. A few wagons crashed into a tree on the right hand bend - it's now a house built by the Waugh family. I noticed the rise of car ownership first hand - the notable increase of new cars stopping for petrol at the Waughs garage. The train station was open, together with a post office- the quarry would ship stone to rail trucks in the siding. The hotel got an extension - coached parties could be catered for after that. Mr Usher was head at school, Mr Ryan was Vicar. Its been suggested that this could be the birth place of St Patrick who was Romano British - more research needed
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