Clubs and Dances, Pubs, were truckers delight

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
2001

By eck Chris, I bet yur Dad woz a smashin bayker as well :laughing: .
The kid next door was often sent to the butchers to get an Ox tail which the butcher used to give away free ( you could make a great bowl of oxtail soup ) his Mam always used to say and ask him if he can leave the head on it :laughing: . Taxi :unamused: .
I don’t know why but I always felt compelled to having fish and chips whenever I was tipping anywhere on the coast, maybe I thought that the fish was always fresher.
One of the best fish and chips dinners that I had on several occasions was in the canteen on Hull Docks, especially on a Friday :smiley: .

Regards Steve.

2002

best fish and chips in the world is bedders coventry rd hay mills brum . same family since the 40*s … still use beef fat :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

2003

mushroomman:
Come on Harry Lad, put your flat 60’s/ 70’s thinking cap on while you are in the Burnley area.
Do you remember on the A 56 around the Colne area heading towards Foulridge.
You came up a steep hill with a very tall railway viaduct over on your right and there was a cafe on your left hand side. Lorries used to park on the main road and if you turned left there was a factory down the side street but I can’t remember if it was Brook Bond Oxo, Marmite or Bovril, they did make beef extract there. ( Definitely not Vegemite :laughing: ).
Maybe we should get Norman to start an Old Favourite Fish and Chip Shop thread :laughing:.
I am sure Harry that you will remember the old chippy on Peel Brow in Ramsbottom, if you don’t, then I think that Moomooland might. The fish were always fresh so I dont think that they caught them in the nearby River Irwell. This same chippy or the house before they changed into a chippy was featured in a famous old fifties black and white film but I can’t remember which one. It was something like Saturday Night and Sunday Morning or This Sporting Life or one of those.
Hopefully this little post should help jump start the old grey matter into 2010 :slight_smile: .

Regards Steve.

hiya,
Steve never used the chippy at Ramsbottom, when i worked for Stringy for a short while i did my dining in the pub opposite their yard, liked liquid food a bit too much in those days it was pre 1960 and pre breathalyser the cafe at Colne never used that either rarely went beyond Hygrade containers in Nelson our main loading point and the work out of there was nearly always north or south but i think the factory was OXO’s because another company Harwood Meggitt, i worked for used to store for them but did’nt bring it into storage or distribute it.
thanks harry long retired.

2004

Steve, I do not know if this cafe, I have in mind, but I can picture going slightly up hill underneath a bridge or viaduct and just pass the bridge, nearly in its shadow, was a black painted white windows cafe, the roof was normal with two slopeing sides, but was felted with tar on it, a jolly plump women was the cook and owner, the food was good and plenty of it, to my dis-may I only was in it twice, and it was in the Burnley area, when I done the mills.

2005

Steve, I do not know if this cafe, I have in mind, but I can picture going slightly up hill underneath a bridge or viaduct and just pass the bridge, nearly in its shadow, was a black painted white windows cafe, the roof was normal with two slopeing sides, but was felted with tar on it, a jolly plump women was the cook and owner, the food was good and plenty of it, to my dis-may I only was in it twice, and it was in the Burnley area, when I done the mills.

2006

Steve, I do not know if this cafe, I have in mind, but I can picture going slightly up hill underneath a bridge or viaduct and just pass the bridge, nearly in its shadow, was a black painted white windows cafe, the roof was normal with two slopeing sides, but was felted with tar on it, a jolly plump women was the cook and owner, the food was good and plenty of it, to my dis-may I only was in it twice, and it was in the Burnley area, when I done the mills.

2007

Receiving you loud and clear Norman thanks to the TruckNet booster signal stations on The Isle of Cyprus and Singapore :wink: .

By Jove :open_mouth: this thread is beginning to sound more like two way Family Favourites with Jean Metcalf :smiley: .
It’s Sunday and in Britain it’s twelve noon, in Germany it’s one o’ clock. In Aden it’s now four p.m. and in Queensland it’s time for another stubby :laughing: .
With the help of Google Earth I have just remembered that the A 56 went through the centre of Colne and that the cafe that I was thinking of was actually on the A 6063 the Colne by pass :blush: . There were rows of terraced houses on the left hand side with corner shops on each end which were very much Open All Hours Granville :laughing: . One of the corner shops and the house next door had been converted into the cafe that I was thinking of, just past here on the left there was at one time a cotton mill. I think that the road might of gone under the tall railway viaduct or that was over on the right with some garden allotments. Of course it must of all changed now with as there is a Macdonalds a bit further along this road just before you pick up the A 56 again.
Your right Harry, the works up the side street was the Oxo factory and the name of the pub which was opposite Stringfellows on the A 56 at Shuttleworth where you often dined was called The Pack Horse.

2008

Sorry about the three times, Steve but I thought the message might get lost on the way to down under :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: , one time I went to Nelson mill to deliver camping gaz equipment, back into the loading bay through these shutter doors, and they unloaded me, then when I was about to pull out, I noticed I was too high to get out of the doors, so I told them, so they said I would have to be reloaded, but I noticed they was changing shift, and loads of women were queueing up to clock out. So I asked the manager to tell them to walk into my trailer, they did, I drove out, and then had the pleasure of helping these girls off of my trailer, It was horrible, I had ■■■■■ in my face and bodies forced against me, and the odd kiss on the cheeks and lips, you do not know how I suffered, I had to park up and have a break. :blush: :blush: :unamused: :unamused: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

2009

norman, i feel so sorry for you having to go through all that!!! must have been terrible…jim

2010

Jim, you young ones do not know how us old ones had to suffer in those dark dank days. :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

2011

Norm,You should have had a medal for gallantry,for being a martyr to the cause. :open_mouth: :laughing: :laughing:
Cheers Dave.

2012

Yes Dave, some of these young drivers do not realise what we had to endure, temptation was always around the corner, but we stood up and was counted, when the chips was down, I think it was Mr Churchill, who would say it was the bulldog spirit of us HGV drivers in desperate times, who rose to the occasion, but always kept his end up! :blush: :blush: :blush: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

2013

hiya,
Dave, old Norm certainly has a decoration for his services to the ladies, the citation reads something like for his undying devotion to helping damsels in distress whether distressed or not was awarded the WC and Chain.
thanks harry long retired.

2014

What no gong?

harry_gill:
hiya,
Dave, old Norm certainly has a decoration for his services to the ladies, the citation reads something like for his undying devotion to helping damsels in distress whether distressed or not was awarded the WC and Chain.
thanks harry long retired.

2015

harry_gill:
hiya,
Dave, old Norm certainly has a decoration for his services to the ladies, the citation reads something like for his undying devotion to helping damsels in distress whether distressed or not was awarded the WC and Chain.
thanks harry long retired.

Harry,I i could be for his undying devotion to helping damsels to get undressed. :laughing:
Cheers Dave.

2016

hiya,
Yep Dave i think you are nearer the mark than me.
thanks harry long retired.

2017

Dave & Harry, how could you besmerch the name of a Sandman & fellow knight of the road, by saying I just wanted to get them undressed, i WAS A GENTLEMAN and would help them dress as well! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

2018

Norm, Now we know why you play golf and bowls,all those ladies needing help in the changing rooms,a true Gent,thats what you are Norm. :blush: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Cheers Dave.

2019

It is a pity, there is not many of us left! :blush: :blush:

Dave the Renegade:
Norm, Now we know why you play golf and bowls,all those ladies needing help in the changing rooms,a true Gent,thats what you are Norm. :blush: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Cheers Dave.

2020

hiya,
You are right Norm anybody like you is dining on porridge that’s why there’s so few about.
thanks harry long retired.