Talking to an old waugh`s driver today on about the cafe in question and we both agree the name was
the moss side cafe. 
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Talking to an old waugh`s driver today on about the cafe in question and we both agree the name was
the moss side cafe.
Well if I remember rightly there was plenty of Moss on the old roof, Eh Ha Ha, Regards Larry.
It was never one of my regular stops but I believe it was, as others recall, Moss Side Café. I only went in occasionally as my route usually took me in another direction.
The first time I was in this old Café which was open all night and was a fave stop for some of the BRS Night trunkers running up to Dundee with reels of paper for Thompsons on the Queensway in Dundee, They printed the Beano, comics etc This was the late 50s earley 60s Era, The good old daysEh,Regards Larry.
Some of you mentioned the Anvil in Dunbar and that ain’t it in the photo. When I was mate on Ben Wyatts AEC Mk v low loader we used to park up there and sup in the pub ( 2nd night out from Snetterton ). Anybody remember the garage there with 2 minis cut in half and welded together to drive either way? We daren’t go in the Moss because of the slope. Jim
No its not the Anvil photo, The Anvil Café was on the Dunbar By Pass as I mentioned before & wasn’t open all night it closed at 7.00.Pm, Mrs Reed that owned it told me as long as the café was lit up at night in the winter drivers were most welcome to pull in and she would make them a meal although it was after seven, A great old dear was Mrs Reed allways looked after her regular customers and mind you she had plenty of them, Regards Larry.
Stopped there most nights on Glasgow change over, we just called it the Granthouse Cafe.
By the way our Glasgow changeover ment just that to Glasgow and back to Gateshead not like the BRS they changedover at Berwick oh what fun we had 
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Aye they were the days Crowbar, I recall looking at the reflection of my old Atki in the shop windows on Princess Street when it was just breaking daylight, & getting a bottle of fresh full cream milk off the local milk man along past the Zoo, Drink it & leave the MT On a garden wall for him on the way back, The good old days all long gone but nice to remember when having a few malts, Eh, Regards Larry.
aye defo moss side cafe right opposite the 40mph speed camera and i mean 40 trust me
was it not called the highland laddie in later years
Right Lads … the MOSS was just north of Carlisle on the left heading south ,… I,ver been in the Grantshouse cafe loads of times and it was always referred to as Grantshouse ( I,ll catch you up at Grantshoose ) that was on the Sunday run down to Tyneside from Dundee …there is a truckstop called the Ceders when you google grantshouse but I doubt if its the same one …mind you I m trying to recollect 50 years ago …a big ask ■■?
I used to haul swedes for Reg Drysdale in the 80’s and 90’s his office was at Grantshouse, the cafe and gift shop/ tourist center in the big layby on the south side was the Ceders. I sat there for 4 hours one Sunday trying to get my mates ERF running, it was - 17 and the diesel was waxing just enough to let it run but not enough to get it going well enough to go back on the road. The woman running the cafe wasn’t best pleased about all the gray smelly smoke that we were making, and even though she made her self out to be a bit posh she didn’t half know how to swear. The cafe on the north side was a bit dilapidated by then but had a few resurrections under different names. If I remember at onetime it was called The Moss and was often frequented by ICI tankers.
Jeff…