DRIVING to the local shop and picking up a pint of milk is fairly normal task but to Monty Goldthorpe it’s a way of life — he's been doing it for 50 years.
Through his fields and along quiet village lanes retired farm worker Monty, of Hermit Hill, Wortley, goes about his daily routine that locals say you could set your watch by.
Six days a week for 50 years come rain, snow or blow he has pulled up outside his local post office in his tractor, often holding up traffic, and he's not about to stop now.
“It started when I was a kid, I’d go with my dad in the tractor and the tradition carried on. When it was really bad in the winter we would deliver milk to the whole village.”
Monty, 70, now travels by car after selling his prize-winning tractor, but he is still in the shop every day buying goods for his disabled mum, who worked in the shop 77 years ago.
