One dry and sunny Sunday morning at the Busy Bee back in the 60’s my friends and I were sitting on the wall at the top of the car park when a large grain lorry went round the roundabout and up the by-pass (A41), and we noticed that grain was spilling from the rear trapdoor. A few minutes later three bike riders came off on the roundabout, we rushed over to help the riders pick their bikes up and found the grain had been crushed by cars and was very slippery.

For the next half hour we posted lookouts on all the roads into the roundabout to warn any bikes approaching of the danger and prevented many potential accidents from happening. Then we saw a speed cop on a Triumph Speedtwin approaching, all the lookouts turned and walked back to the Bee car park. There was a crash and clatter as the speed cop bit the dust and a big cheer from the Busy Bee crowd.

As soon as he got up he grabbed the radio handset from the tank and called somebody, within a few minutes a council truck appeared with many men to sweep the road.