Date: 06/05/2021

Covid-19 has placed severe restrictions on our travel freedoms and we complain about being confined to our local area, potholes, late trains and single carriageway roads - but spare a thought for our ancestors. Until the 18th Century, the only safe way in and out of Berwick was by sea, just the brave and the poor would take to the highway.

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Covid-19 has placed severe restrictions on our travel freedoms and we complain about being confined to our local area, potholes, late trains and single carriageway roads “ but spare a thought for our ancestors.

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