Through Scawby Brook into Brigg, along the A18, we followed a tractor pulling a trailer full of what looked like sugar beet. But when we got close enough, at the Atherton Way roundabout, it turned out to be a fine crop of large potatoes.
Older Brigg Blog followers will recall the steady stream of tractors and lorries that once headed in the other direction, through town, on their way to deliver sugar beet to Brigg Sugar Factory at Scawby Brook.
They sometimes shed a bit of beet, which bounced along the road and often ended up on our pavements. Hence the local term Bouncing Beet.
The potatoes we saw today were well secured and there was no danger of any going over the top, so to speak.
I recall the Miners' Strike in 1984 - seemingly over-loaded lorries - originating from the Orgreaves Coking Plant (between Rotherham and Sheffield), with police car escorts, exiting the M180 whizzing around the Briggate Roundabout en-route to the steelworks.
ReplyDeleteIn time, the roundabout resembled a coal-yard - the result of streams of coke being regularly jettisoned as the artics heaved-over to negotiate the turn....
There were a few odd-bods in the area shoveling the jetsam into buckets to take home...