hiya,
Norm you’ve got one hell of a memory for entertainment venues and cafe names, i’m hopeless at remembering the names of the cafe’s and the digs i used to use, i go up stairs and forget why i’m up there, come back down and then realise it was a pea i wanted, good exercise though, spent a bit of time looking at cars today haven’t seen anything yet but am in no hurry, rather hope she might forget i need one.
thanks harry long retired.
flishflunk:
Hi all,
here’s an advert for sausages from the 80s.
Ray
I missed out on these sausage places,were they special Northampton sausages or summat,like that lighthouse was special? Never got into Northampton in the 80s,always trunking north or Liverpool/Ellesmere Port on nights regular then full-time shunting.No sausage places in Merseyside,only entertainment was watching the “goings on” on the Pier Head at night or sheep-bashing on Woodhead,no sausage cafes up there either.
So have missed something special Ray? 
Chris the meals in these cafe’s was very good, and the giggling sausage won the best breakfast award this year again, but the dinners was good old fashion food, and if you never had spotted ■■■■, you could get it there without going with a womam , I still treat my wife to a meal there, as you see money is no object to me?. The Super in St. Andrews road has a car park there, the building is owned by the council, the last time I was in there a couple of years ago, we signed a petition to prevent our council closing in down, to do redeveloment work, many drivers from all over the country stayed there, before sleeper cabs. Once when I was at a dinner & dance at the Saxon Hotel, a beatiful young lady came up to me, and said " Norman you look handsome in your dress suit", thank you young lady, how do you know my name, I should do, you have flirted with me enough, I took her in my arms, and looked her in her eyes and said the super sausage, yes she said and mum is here too, she and her mum worked there, so I bought them a drink, and got a kiss, so Harry I never forget places with good memories. 
Norman Ingram:
… I took her in my arms, and looked her in her eyes and said the super sausage…
Who said romance was dead■■?
What a chat up line norman, you are one smooth dude!!! 
hiya,
So that’s the secret Norm flirt and get to know the ladies of the establishment and then the place always sticks in your memory, you see old pal i was always a married man, well with one or two lapses, for all my driving career so you see i was’nt allowed to even talk to other ladies so you see you can blame my bad memory on all my “ex old ladies”, remember Kates Cabin though but can’t remember why for the life in me “uh um”.
thanks harry long retired.
Bullit, one of my favourite lines was from a song, when I was dancing, I would say “If I say you have a Beautiful body” will you hold it against me? , so if you get one yes out of ten, and you ask a thousand, that is a hundred women that fancies you Jippy ki ho . Harry, I am not surprised you was barred from talking to them, for every time you did, you ended up marrying then 
hiya,
Norm nice chat up technique, i personally did’nt need to use one, they only had to get a glimpse at my big rig and they was hooked.
thanks harry long retired.
Only one problem, you fishermen always talk about the one that got away
hiya,
That’s plenty Norm,nowt escaped or wanted to escape me, now sling your hook.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, you know the old saying, a man chases a women,until she catches him, is thats why you got hooked three times, using your bait and heavy tackle?
hiya,
Got to admit my chasing days are gone and you can be double sure they would’nt want to bothered catching me now, heavy tackle or no heavy tackle.
thanks harry long retired.
Norman the best meal I ever had in Northampton was at your old place of work Carlsberg we used to deliver the cleaning chemical for the barrel wash. One day I was loading in Cheadle Hulme and it was a slow load through a hose pipe and usually I would go over woodhead to Sheffield and go down the following morning but on this occasion Carlsberg rang to say they would run out in the early hours and could I go through with it that night so I told them it would be tight and I had not eaten so they said if I came through they would see me alright so I got in around 6-30pm and it was a gravity discharge in the yard so I parked on the discharge point and was taken to a posh canteen where the chef had done me a T bone steak and all the trimmings and a sweet and a jug of lager before any gas was put in which was good as I did not drink lager but that was more like beer and then I was given a case to take home so it was worth doing but it was a regular job so I would have done it anyway. cheers Johnnie
PS I woke with a thick head next morning
bullitt:
Norman Ingram:
… I took her in my arms, and looked her in her eyes and said the super sausage…
Who said romance was dead■■?
What a chat up line norman, you are one smooth dude!!!
I took her in my arms, and looked into her eyes and I whispered in her ear " would you like a sausage " .
Seriously though, wasn’t there a Sleepy Sausage I.I.R.C. near Daventry, I stayed there on two occasions with a couple of B.R.S. drivers from the Cheetham Hill depot so I thought that Harry might remember it.
hiya,
Mushroomman never did much work round that area a run down the a5 bypassing Daventry was regular for me usually en-route to London and beyond and very rarely used cafe digs had a little book full of private digs and usually a short stroll from a BRS depot i was a bit pampered really, there was too many early start guys in truckstop type digs and that was unheard of when employed by the BRS.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Mushroomman never did much work round that area a run down the a5 bypassing Daventry was regular for me usually en-route to London and beyond and very rarely used cafe digs had a little book full of private digs and usually a short stroll from a BRS depot i was a bit pampered really, there was too many early start guys in truckstop type digs and that was unheard of when employed by the BRS.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry.
I posted this before but do you remember the brs dig in wisbech? Everything was spot on,the food great and loads of it,the beds and washing facilitys spotless,the last time i was there in the 90s i wanted a 4.30am start,she woke me and when i got downstairs there was a full english on the table.She said my old man drives trunk for brs and he,s due in soon so while i was doing his i did you some.
regards dave.
Yes Steve there was one on the righthand side after you went under the bridge,after you went past weeden, that closed down, the super sausage on the A5 near Pottersbury is still open, we call in there quite often. When I was at this dance I looked like a young 007, some of my driver mates were taking the micky and calling me waiter, but I had the last laugh when I went waltzing around with this young lady, my wife said who is that beautiful girl you was dancing with, I replied, you should know, she brought your breakfast in the super sausage last SAturday, she replied she can serve you with your breakfast, but no bed!, I said no chance her boy friend will not let her out of his sight, , her mother worked behind the counter, and was a short well built women.
Yes Jonny, the canteen served good food, first we used it, then we had our own, then it moved up Kingsheath in our depot, then that closed down, so we used the sausages cafes, we only used the one in the brewery when we done weeks on shunting. Carlsberg liked to get us out of the brewery quickly, so they could tell customers we was on the way!
Norman Ingram:
Yes Jonny, the canteen served good food, first we used it, then we had our own, then it moved up Kingsheath in our depot, then that closed down, so we used the sausages cafes, we only used the one in the brewery when we done weeks on shunting. Carlsberg liked to get us out of the brewery quickly, so they could tell customers we was on the way!
This Wasn’t you and one of your mates on a dodgy was it Norman.
Cheers Dave.
No dave, they look like the drays lorries, that deliver to the pubs etc.
Yes thought you drove bigger stuff than those Norman,think those two had come off carlsberg,as they were in a yard with allsorts. I think from memory they were six wheelers,never looked to see if they were piped for a drag or not.
Cheers Dave.