mushroomman:
I thought that I would give this thread a bump while we are all waiting for Fred to get back from his holiday in Kavala.Foden 46 has asked could I put some of his photos on Trucknet for him as now he has finally retired he doesnât have much spare time.
Dowâs yard in Swindon.
Hi to see all the pic right click on the pic and choose view image! Or simply press bottom left button on keyboard ctrl at the same time press + or - on top row to the right. this will enlarge or reduce page size for easier reading or to see full pic!
Hope this helps you.
Regards Pat
Can anybody tell me why the right sides of the photos have been chopped off as they appear full size on Photobucket.
Mike/Steve. interesting posts. If only we knew then what we have learnt now eh ? I have attempted to get into my old diaries and I gave up after about four, the reason was that there was not enough detail of interest only distances and times clearing borders etc; I think that I kept this info should I have needed to refer back and have to answer delays etc; to the exporter etc; Very true point raised about the fear of rolling or sliding off the roads, it was always on your mind once you met the bad conditions on the Eastern Bloc and of course across Tiher or Tarsus, I was fortunate having never had any such mishap but I certainly had a few bottle testing situations - Must raise a point on the photoâs - terrific - keep 'em coming Steve, you keep popping up with these gems . Regards Fred 
Hi Mike, I only managed to get to a couple of the old battlegrounds mainly because most of them are not places you would take a truck to, but I did go to the big Canadian memorial at Vimy Ridge in the car on the way back from Paris with her indoors, the one you can see through the trees from the Autoroute near Arras, a very quiet and sobering place. I always wanted to stop at Monte Cassino south of Rome as my stepbrother from my dadâs previous marriage was killed and buried in the war cemetry there but once again being in a truck made it difficult.
Hi Pat, thanks for the info 
. You know, I have been using Photobucket for over six years now and I never knew that you could access another persons Photobucket album until today just by clicking on somebodyâs photo. 
Regards Steve.
I was just about to post some pics,but Photobucket has changed itâs format yet again and I canât even view my pics.
Sometime same trouble with photobucket 
bestbooties:
I was just about to post some pics,but Photobucket has changed itâs format yet again and I canât even view my pics.
Photobucket!
After clicking on nearly everything,(The help button was no â â â â â â â help at all!),I was informed my system needs updating,click here etc,etc,
A couple of clicks and I got on a â â â â â â â roundabout I could not get off!Why do these people keep changing things.
Iâve got over 600 pictures on there I canât even â â â â â â â see now never mind do anything with!
bestbooties:
Photobucket!
After clicking on nearly everything,(The help button was no [zb] help at all!),I was informed my system needs updating,click here etc,etc,
A couple of clicks and I got on a [zb] roundabout I could not get off!Why do these people keep changing things.
Iâve got over 600 pictures on there I canât even [zb] see now never mind do anything with!
Mr b booties
If for some reason you canât log onto Photobucket, just click on one of your posted photos, the one of Mr Hamms Mack on the previous page will do fine. That will show your photobucket page, then you can click where it says " bestbooties library " which is above the links for twitter, facebook etc. Or that white square in between where it says Previous and Next.
Then you can see all 632 photos ,just like us. 
Is that like that big roundabout at Hemel Hemstead that you could go round any direction, I though that was bad until I was driving round Hobart, you should see what they have invented in the center of town.
Iâm with Mr Booties, I have or had over 1000 photos on photobucket, which I spent many long frustrating hours trying to up load. Every time I went back into it they seem to have changed everything, making it impossible to understand, and all my photos are all over the place. Every week I used to get an email telling me they were going to be some kind of new advanced social media network and I should get involved and invite all my friends join in. I got send messages from people I didnât know in Argentina and other places telling me someone was having a nice cup of coffee and someone in Germany would reply Yum!!! so itâs got to a point that I just donât bother with it and marked their email as Spam.
I dumped my facebook thing as well for similar reasons.
JeffâŚ
I know what you mean, I have just spent ages looking for this photo that I took somewhere near the turning for A.N.Z.A.C. Cove. I wish Photobucket would stop âimprovingâ 
their site, all my photos are all over the place, I canât even find a lot of them. It would be great if they could go back to how it was two years ago, I am sure it was a lot easier to post photos.
Thing is,you canât speak to anybody to get any â â â â â â â answers!
Sorry did you say something??
JeffâŚ
hutpik:
Hi all.MM.Excellent pics,they really encapsulate the fun we had then.I Think we all have had nightmares about if we were going to end up like as the poor sod in Kapic as we struggled to park,or hoped we would not be in the same situation as the Hicks driver,we all lived in fear of accidents.I bet that almost everyone of us has an almost identical Picture of Tahir,usually 1 summer and 1 Winter just to prove to ourselves that we really had done it.
I remember the first time i Went to Gallipoli it made me feel really humble.My grandfather was there in the Gallipoli landings during the 1st WW,he was 16.As a Child i Heard the stories from him about ââJohnny Turkââ and all the hardships they suffered.He lost all his toes with frostbite and i could never understand as Turkey was a hot country,but when i visited Gallipoli my Eyes were opened,i actually sat and cried for my grandfather.
I wonder how many of us have had relatives die in ââfar flung cornersââ of the Empire which we have visited in trucks,be it the fields of Flanders,North Africa,Middle East.Afghanistan,Balkans,etc.And how many of us have had a humbling moment of reflection.Come on Fred,get searching soon those old arthritic fingers wonât be able to turn the pages or type.
This pic taken on the Dardanelles ferryboat:
WW1 artillery pieces in Canakale town centre:
Did anyone watch,âMonster movesâ last night,(20.00 channel 5),about a group of steam enthusiasts repatriating two English steam locos from Sivas to Izmir?
It brought back a lot of memories of the Turkish countryside,and even more evocative was when they reached the midway point at Ulukisla,which,as many of you will remember is at the top of that long,long climbing straight south of Aksaray,just before you tackle the Taurus mountains.I always remember the railway marshalling yard at the side of the road as one passed.
This pic was taken when Bob Matthews and myself stopped on a layby just south of Ulukisla with some engine problem on the trip back from Baghdad.
On the right can be seen the railway line as it snakes itâs way through the Taurus mountains south to Adana.
Great pictures of the Jenkinsonâs DAFâs. I thought I had the only pictures of these left. If you have anymore please post them. They are better quality than mine. I will post some others tomorrow of my Dadâs on their first trip to the ME. Edgar Jenkinson was my dad (RIP). He died 14 years ago at my house. I prefer the Scania oneâs though. If anyone remembers my dad let me know.
Andy
i dont know if anyone is still following this post but here is my dads (barry bradshaw) motor at middle east minerals, picked up from hull docks with 17kms on clock and the first registered scania bullnose in the uk
Welcome to Trucknet âMaraschesâ Mr Bradshaw Jnr: Your posts are most welcome and of interest to many of us, if you sweep your pointer across your photoâs you will see how many times it has been visited so keep them coming along with any memories that your dad (RIP) left you with -
Fred
hi my dad is still alive and kicking lol he had to give up work a few month back due to ill health but is still going strong at 75 after 45yr in the trucking industry, i spoke to him today and he is going to sort out some more photos for me from his days on for duncan mcrea
marusches:
hi my dad is still alive and kicking lol he had to give up work a few month back due to ill health but is still going strong at 75 after 45yr in the trucking industry, i spoke to him today and he is going to sort out some more photos for me from his days on for duncan mcrea
My sincere apologies I must have mis-read the article, sorry to learn of his ill health, give him my best, I look forward to you getting more picâs on the thread - Fred
Pat Searleâs F88 still for sale in latest Commercial Motor 
