2010 – Issue 3 of 4

there was scaffolding around one wing. At two o’clock almost all the
visitors to the building gathered round the mechanical swan to see it
doing its famous 34-second routine of swivelling its neck before diving
into the ‘water’ to extract a fish. The whole audience clapped in delight.
Former Crosville convertible open topper ‘Harvey’ ready to leave Bowber Head
A walk back into the town and a wander round brought me to the
Morrisons’ car park, where our Lodekka was laying over. Our journey
back to Kirkby Stephen was something of a shortcut but none the worse
for that as it took us along the dual carriageway A66 to Brough and then
back to Kirkby Stephen. Before returning to the depot, we learnt that we
had to stop to pick up fuel.
Gordon went through his usual routine of asking if there were any
questions. ‘No? Good! I won’t have to think of the answers!”
We passed a filling station with headroom of about 12’ 6”. Had the roof
been off, we might have been able to stop there at the minor cost of
several passengers being decapitated, but we went instead to one a little
further on where the headroom was over 14’. Even on returning to
Ravenstonedale and the bouncy road up to Bowber Head, I was sorry
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