Shaw & Kilburn Bedford dealer Luton.
DEANB:
Shaw & Kilburn Bedford dealer Luton.0
We had some work on our Detroit powered TM done at Shaw and Kilburn in Luton as our local dealer,Weston’s garage in Hitchin didn’t do engine work on the big TM’s.
Weston’s is finally being demolished now after standing empty for years.
andrew.s:
“DEANB” Shaw & Kilburn Bedford dealer Luton.We had some work on our Detroit powered TM done at Shaw and Kilburn in Luton as our local dealer,Weston’s garage in Hitchin didn’t do engine work on the big TM’s.
Weston’s is finally being demolished now after standing empty for years.
Its a shame that all the old dealers and hauliers yards are disappearing and being built on. Nice pic of the wrecker Dave.
H.E.Payne Bedford TL 1984.
A few adverts from yesteryear, only one on there I haven’t heard of.
Kempston:
A few adverts from yesteryear, only one on there I haven’t heard of.0
LOL… I remember the Herbalist shop… " Horsenails " in St Johns St, it was just around the corner from the Rootes Group garage I did my apprenticeship in, Nicholls & Sons… The only advert name I do not recognise is the Plant Hire advert as I do not remember them.
Kempston:
A few adverts from yesteryear, only one on there I haven’t heard of.
Nice adverts Dave. 
Clipping from 1976 of Dealers Deliveries.
OldishJoda:
Kempston:
A few adverts from yesteryear, only one on there I haven’t heard of.0
LOL… I remember the Herbalist shop… " Horsenails " in St Johns St, it was just around the corner from the Rootes Group garage I did my apprenticeship in, Nicholls & Sons… The only advert name I do not recognise is the Plant Hire advert as I do not remember them.
That’s the same one as me.
DEANB:
Kempston:
A few adverts from yesteryear, only one on there I haven’t heard of.Nice adverts Dave.
Clipping from 1976 of Dealers Deliveries.
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Forgot all about them Dean
Old J & K wrecker from Dunstable. Nmp
Kempston:
Old J & K wrecker from Dunstable. Nmp0
Originally Kevin was based at the old petrol station on the left out of Hockliffe as you go towards Milton Keynes, then he moved up to Toddington Services for a period of time.
Bumped into an old mate of mine today who also worked at Shanks when I was there, him and his family started a business doing drilling/drainage etc and have grown to quite a sizeable company in relatively short space of time. Here’s one of his volvos.
Barretts of Aspley, predominantly steelwork manufacturers but have now branched out into plant and crane hire too. Their yard is next door to where Shanks used to be on brogborough Hill.
Kempston:
Barretts of Aspley, predominantly steelwork manufacturers but have now branched out into plant and crane hire too. Their yard is next door to where Shanks used to be on brogborough Hill.Were they not farmers originally at the bottom of Brogborough hill and the entrance now is next door to the old Dogging layby…
If I remember the farm correctly I am sure it was Barretts.Regards Andy
OldishJoda:
Kempston:
Barretts of Aspley, predominantly steelwork manufacturers but have now branched out into plant and crane hire too. Their yard is next door to where Shanks used to be on brogborough Hill.Were they not farmers originally at the bottom of Brogborough hill and the entrance now is next door to the old Dogging layby…
If I remember the farm correctly I am sure it was Barretts.Regards Andy
You may well be correct, certainly the correct location.
Poikey:
Kempston:
OldishJoda:
Kempston:
Barretts of Aspley, predominantly steelwork manufacturers but have now branched out into plant and crane hire too. Their yard is next door to where Shanks used to be on brogborough Hill.Were they not farmers originally at the bottom of Brogborough hill and the entrance now is next door to the old Dogging layby…
If I remember the farm correctly I am sure it was Barretts.Regards Andy
You may well be correct, certainly the correct location.
The dogging lay-by at the bottom of the hill? Is/was that the one by the entrance to the tip? Think the parking area on top of the hill was a popular spot too for alfresco shenanigans…thankfully I’m pure, shy and very innocent.
I’ll bow to your greater knowledge on dogging sites 
but yes the lay-by became the slip road off the A421 from the M1 into Shanks Brogborough landfill site.
Totterhoe lime, no longer going I believe.
