Grace and Terry left West Garside around three o’clock, with Grace driving the Alfa Romeo and quickly got onto the M1 at Dodworth, near Barnsley.
A few miles up the road they passed the turn-off for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where Terry sometimes took his children and offered to take Grace ‘one day, perhaps, it’s really great,’. ‘Yes, one day maybe’ was all the response he got.
They drove up the M1 at speed to the junction with the A1, continued northwards on the A1 before turning off onto the A64.
Grace drove fast, very fast at times, if there was a clear stretch of road, she put her foot down and frequently sent the speedometer over 100mph, at one time touching 115mph, but at no time did Terry feel concerned. She had absolute control of the car, she was at one with the purring Al
