One of my part-time jobs is as caretaker of the house next door which is run as a holiday let. Unless the guests' satnavs can see the bit of the A1 that was moved closer to Catterick Garrison (Catterick Camp, for the oldies), junction 52 and the new road, the A6055, they are doomed to a frustrating and late arrival at their holiday destination as their sanavs tell them they are driving over fields in pursuit of A1 junctions that no longer exist.
As I'm usually there to meet & greet, I have to spend a wasteful few minutes listening to how the guests managed to get here against all the odds, which villages they visited ,who they got directions from, how many times they had to turn round and how things were easier with a good old-fashioned map. This despite the guest making the booking getting phone advice beforehand to use e.g. Google maps to plan their journey.
Out of interest, I would like to know from you, if you have a car with built-in satnav, if your device will show you the A6055 and junction 52. If it does, I'd like to know make, model and year of first registration or year when the satnav was last updated.
By way of thanks, responders' names will go into a draw for a slap-up, no-expense-spared virtual pint at my local.
If you can find it. ;-]
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