1974, Another big year for Hornby Roads. This gravel (unloaded at the Ferry landing) was stored at that wide space at Trimble’s corner. Residents nibbled away at it(for concrete projects and driveway improvement)  until it was put on the road.

George Cowie. 1973

Tarvy, that’s what they called it. You had to do a gravel spread of a certain length. Then an  oil truck would put down a layer of oil. After that the grader would spend a long time mixing the two until finally laying out the roadway which would be flattened by a steam roller.1973. That’s Robbie Stevens monitoring  the flow. He and Doug Nixon were hired on that summer as casuals. Ahead of Robbie you can see the marker. We were supposed to control our dump to fit between the flag guy and that mark. Got pretty good at it after a while.

1973