George Stephenson was woken by Ernie Higglethwaite sounding Scramsby Main Colliery Hooter as women passed and he peered from the window to see the procession still a mile away. The Nuns returned to the convent and the frustration of a ten strokes per minute water wheel, and after a good night and some sleep Fanny and George set about making money, Fanny travelling to Heaton to order a hundredweight of Gold and George set to work on the batch of engines for the Nuns. xnx “Very well I shall test this myself, when that strumpet has finished,” the Mother Superior announced. The Mother superior flopped as in a daze as George slowed the machine. “Mr Stephenson, please” shouted Bessie covering her face with her hands, but leaving a gap between fingers to watch through.
