The Last Of The Summer Whine

After a year of wrangling between the council, town big-wigs and Humphrey Smith, head lad at Samuel Smiths Brewery, the bridge is now open. A year ago in the floods (Boxing Day, 2015 to be precise), half this beautiful medieval bridge in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, was washed away. It has cost £millions to repair.

The council had been pressed to do something about repairs for many years. Humphrey had been one of the main critics. When the bridge was washed away, the town was cut in half.

Of course, the council expected Humphrey to immediately agree to a footbridge going on his land. He refused, and so the whining lasted all through the summer of 2016. Most of that is probably fake news anyway. Mind you, I'll take the word of a brewer over a politician any day.

Regardless, all that aside, Foggy has taken it upon himself to inspect the works every morning on his daily constitutional...

"Look Compo, look at the marvellous workmanship, the craft that has gone into the repairs. Look at the skill of the stonemasons..."

"Ey, Foggy, yer daft bat, it wasn't that side where all the work was done, it was on't other side o'road. Yer flippin' wassock!"