YOUR PICTURE OF THE WEEK
Snowy scenes in Northowram by Lucy Crowther
This is when we came across a very special, kind person.
The man came to our assistance. He was just out to get his mother some milk and ended up helping many people who were scared and distressed. He got a tow rope from one of his vans and hooked us up to his Range Rover and pulled us to the brow of the hill to safety.
This guy was called John Kershaw and is the managing director of Simply Moving and Sleeping. Most of the drivers were just interested in themselves and getting through - not John, he genuinely just wanted to get people moving and to safety. These treacherous road conditions came about as the road clearing operations had not got out soon enough and when they did the roads where full of abandoned vehicles sliding in all directions.
This guy gives you faith in theses dark gloomy times. Thank you John.
I see a gritter at least four times a day, gritting a cul-desac at Aloefield View. This is a total waste of money and flies in the face of the A and B roads priority. I’d be interested in their explantion.
They will probably say school access. Well, there is more school traffic on Mosley Drive but in the 40 years I’ve lived here I have never seen a gritter on here. The majority of school traffic parks on Mosley Drive, dropping children off and not forgetting the people who put them there.
‘I stopped to ask for help from parking officers and they were brilliant...the whole experience became so much more positive...’