Sorry dude I got a lift (from M62 J30!!) in today so I can't stop on my way home, shame really........
Still working on some contacts for a job for you if I can find them, I think it is the agencies that are taking on right now
Your "private road" wasn't the A62 to Marsden by any chance????? (Don't expect an answer to this one, "take the fifth!")
If it is be careful, as you approach Marsden there is a speed camera near the 30 limit sign, and the police sometimes speed trap before and after too. (But I'm guessing you know that already)
Used to live in Huddersfield, that's how I know the A62 and A640....... is the big "STOP" snow warning sign still at the bottom of the hill on the way out of Oldham on the A62 before you start the main climb?