A reporter takes to the Saltash Ferry before it disappears and interviews a local alderman, Mr Downe. The last ferry is to be at 11.15pm on 23 October 1961. The new Tamar Bridge will open to road traffic on the following day. Records show that the Saltash Passage existed as a crossing as early as the thirteenth century and the town developed and prospered from income generated by it. The child featured is Stephen Michael Snowden and he would have been born around 20 May 1956.