Letter: It is very gratifying to see very often in the news the distances that people have walked for charity.

I am very glad about it myself and it is very commendable, because I had thought that some have forgotten how to walk, or have never learned.

I had heard of (horror?) stories where some young people, especially these days, refuse to walk even short distances, and insist on being driven by car. They also seem to think that to travel by public transport is degrading.

What comes to mind is when communities very slightly off the main road insist on having a bus all through the day, every day.

Sometimes the bus makes a specially devised detour of a few hundred yards, but then, for some strange unfathomable reason, the residents never use it.

I think just a small minority like to be pampered these days.

Years ago I remember the 435 bus (Ludlow/Shrewsbury) stayed on the main road.

I used to travel, at one time, early on a Monday morning and return on Friday afternoon from the stop outside at Ludlow Town Hall, now gone.

What did the people in Wistanstow and Condover do then?

Can anyone remember? I think there were not so many cars about then.

I remember in the severe winters several of us thinking nothing of walking five miles in the deep snowdrifts to school and later on, to work, when our buses from over Clee Hill did not turn up.

If you did this now, some folk would think you were mad.

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