Now as I was on my way home on the A127 last week I was held up after a number of horses escaped onto the road.
I’m not sure how they were eventually caught and rounded up but I’ll bet they didn’t have the option open to them that officers eventually used on a busy dual carriageway close to Cardiff.
A bus heading for Cardiff hospital pulled over and police and other motorists then encouraged the somewhat shaken animal to board the bus and take it to a safe location from where the owner was able to collect it with a horse box.
Well I never!
Keeping to the transport theme, Margaret Mills took us back to the earliest days of motor transport – and the Essex inventor of the first petrol driven vehicle.
His name was Frederick Bremer and he lived in Walthamstow, which was part of Essex, when he first took his car on the road back in 1894.
Indeed a local school bears his name today.
Listen again here to what Margaret told me about this remarkable individual: –
See you again next week,
Scott