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OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Remember when going scotch (if from the south), or going down to the smoke (if from the north), was long distance?
When Middle East work was readily available?.
When driving a 111 or F89 meant you were truly the king of the road?
Recall those companies long gone, where every day was an adventure?

What ever happened to those drivers you spent hours with.. where did they go? and recollect on those characters in the industry sadly no longer with us.
This forum is for us all to indulge in a little nostalgia and remember with rose coloured glasses how much better it was in the olden days

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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby tyneside » Mon Oct 03, 2016 8:48 pm

Hi Leyland 600
Late fifties early sixties we used to take fat sheep over to Preston from the old Newcastle Mart. This was every Monday night and the dealer was called John Hindmarsh. I was only a kid at the time so not sure where exactly in Preston the sheep went to and where the dealer came from.
Just another useless memory. Tyneside
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Re: OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

Postby Leyland600 » Mon Oct 03, 2016 9:47 pm

Hi Tyneside, I know where the old Newcastle mart was just because I used to arrive at Marlborogh Crecent off the United bus from Carlisle back in the 1950s en route to Blyth as a boy unaccompanied. I then got a trolleybus from Central Station to The Haymarket bus stand then any one of four United services to Blyth. In my livestock days I never visited Preston mart just passed through on my way to the Stanley Abbatoir at Liverpool, yeuk I can still smell it 54 years on. I also travelled along the new Preston M6 motorway from Broughton to Bamber Bridge en route to Banbury with sheep a regular job which took 9 hours each way back then in my then new LAD cabbed Albion Clydesdale. No tachographs then just good old paper log sheets filled in with a pencil the only essential item needed was a rubber !! Doon and back home in a oner.
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