Charlie’s bad leg must have recovered because this is an easy ride – or was meant to be.  Blackrod’s Steep Hills come in for criticism (David Miller take note) and the potholed road to Blackrod – complete with duck ponds – is where our hero falls off and smashes his headlamp.  Remember this lamp, because he in later years upgraded to   ‘a two Bob Lucas’ – a move from carbide power to battery.

In later years this same potholed and duck ponded road was subsequently renamed the A6 to form part of the main road from London to Carlisle and Glasgow !