NMP Reproduced with the kind permission of Robert Burridge.
A sunday afternoon shot of the old yard in Hop Pocket Lane Paddock Wood overlooking the railway line taken from Maidstone Road.
This yard and its buildings were rented from British Rail and show vehicles rammed in , these would have been loaded up sunday morning for wholesale market deliveries that night.
At this time we only had this yard a bit of land that backed onto the back of the Hops Marketing Boards warehouse B which was accessed from Transfesa road , when the majority of the fleet was back at the weekend we had an agreement with the Hops Marketing Board that from 3pm on a Friday we could park our vehicles in their main yard but all had to be out by 8am Monday , during the week Hop Pocket Lane would be used as additional Parking.
A few years later the old Scats site was purchased for additional parking and many years later the old concrete tower building was demolished and this all became our main parking area once the new offices were constructed on the back of the old Hops Marketing Board B warehouse which was also purchased and converted into a very large cold store.
The Atkinson in the picture was LKO 787P which was the last Atkinson Borderer purchased which was powered by a 240 Gardner engine.
