“He wanted to go back there and revisit all the places of his youth.Sometimes, he asked me if I’d give him the bus fare for the journey.“Now and then, in between drives up into the Peak District, I’d take him back to Manchester Road so we could look at his old house and drive past the George & Dragon where his dad used to go for a few pints.“Sometimes, I’d drive him past Edgeley Park, too, past the spot we parked on that Monday evening nearly 42 years ago.
It was part of our history. “Taking me there was one of the many things I was grateful to him for. “And so, County and Stockport Viaduct, a landmark of which he was inordinately proud, were two of the last things I mentioned to him before he died last weekend.”Oliver added in his column.
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