Lawrence Dunbar:
Well what about The Quernhow at Sinderby on the old A 1, IIRC They opened up about 1959/60, It was a small family enterprise concerne, But they went on to build up one of the best transport cafes Northbound on the A 1, The food was as good as you co,uld get anywere, Ive had food in 5 star Places that was rubbish compared to The Quernhow stuff, Sadley its no longer a Transport Watering Hole,But the happy memmories are still about, Regardsd Larry
A lot of ours used to call at the Quernhow on the way home. It was exactly 40 mile from Spennymoor and always when we had customers waiting for vans to load & we’d been telling them there’s one due in shortly & we’ll send it straight round, we’d ring the Quernhow and ask them to tell our next driver to come in, to ring the office, so we could tell him where to go to load, & ring the customer back & tell them exactly what time he’d be there.
We therefore got a lot of reverse charge calls from Sinderby.