John Chandler
@johnhchandler.bsky.social
West Country Historian and Publisher
W H Hudson wrote in A Shepherds Life (1910) about motor cars in Salisbury roads, ‘until the loathed hooting and dusting engines are thrust away into roads of their own there is little pleasure in them [roads] for the man on foot’. 115 years later and Salisbury never got the bypass he was suggesting
Looking at parish council minutes for Alderbury, Wilts where there were complaints in 1906 !!! about the ‘danger’ caused by ‘the rapid driving of motor cars’ 🚗 It would take another 70 years for a bypass to be built. 🚙
December 3, 2024 at 9:03 PM
W H Hudson wrote in A Shepherds Life (1910) about motor cars in Salisbury roads, ‘until the loathed hooting and dusting engines are thrust away into roads of their own there is little pleasure in them [roads] for the man on foot’. 115 years later and Salisbury never got the bypass he was suggesting