HUGE DIVERSIONS Motoring Story 2.5 Harrogate to Scarborough in 1948 via Middlesborough

The bridge has over the years been the subject of many amusing stories, the main one was televised when a gang of locals sold it to some gullible folk in America...it was only a story of course!
So, whenever we set off to visit Scarborough, I requested going by Middlesborough. 

Even the most mediocre student of geography can tell that Harrogate to Scarborough via Middlesborough does not make good sense. Even the return journey, it is miles and miles out of the way.
Mind you I could be very persistent and dogged and difficult. 

I had to pay for this attitude from time to time...one memorable time was being abandoned or rather, “put out” of the car in the middle of the North Yorkshire Moors for my “persistent difficultness”! 

The car went off without me….completely out of sight...for what seemed like ages. 

But it did come back again!

I was told they had missed my company or something like that.. and I was let in again, if I agreed to be somewhat better behaved!

So, you see, I never did get to Middlesborough very often...it was only actually when going to visit those good friends in Whitley Bay...even then it was a very round about trip!

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