Harry how you shock me, you are not incinuating that I have the gift of the gab 
Hi Norm,
You had better watch out,if Harry says you have the gift of the gab,he’s trying to flatter you,then he will tap you for a loan,to buy that moter he wants.
Cheers Dave.
Dave he will not get money out of me to buy a car, I was being a good mate and telling him he could get a three wheel electric scooter, and he nearly bit my head off, you cannot help some people these days?
hiya,
See what i mean chaps you hit rock bottom with no transport and it really shows who your friends are, been looking at a Range Rover today bit high on the miles but the body and the mechanicals are sound the only drawback is it’s only a two ltr diesel would like something a bit bigger and really fancy a Pajero/Shogun with a three ltr diesel but theres no rush giving the bus pass a bit of wellie though.
thanks harry long retired.
Anyone remember that cafe at Bloxwich with a nightclub attached to it, I think it might have been called Chaplins.
The women used to come down by the coachload, 
They knocked it down and built an old folks home 
Bet they don’t have as much fun as I had there.
Bionic, Ihad forgot all about that one, also there was one not too far from Stratford-on Avon, but it will not come into my head, also from 1978, a lot of the Carlsberg lads used to stop at your area, with the old tankers.
bionic:
Anyone remember that cafe at Bloxwich with a nightclub attached to it, I think it might have been called Chaplins.The women used to come down by the coachload,
They knocked it down and built an old folks home
bionic.
Think that was the kernel wasn,t it.
regards dave.
Dafdave, I do not know the name, but the place, but Chaplins rings a bell in my mind, it was a club, but where? 
Norman Ingram:
Dafdave, I do not know the name, but the place, but Chaplins rings a bell in my mind, it was a club, but where?
Probably miles off on this one but was Chaplins between Oldham and Rochdale and owned by Cannon and Ball .
Thank you Steve, I knew I had been in it, pigging right I had
years ago in the late 60’s I used to go to Liverpool, but tried not to stop there if possible, and a lot of truckers used to do the same, but we would stay in St. Helens, I know I had some good nights out, and went to some club & dances, but for the love of me, I can not bring any names into my brainbox.
hiya,
Overnighted in St Helens myself Norm, many times at the same time as you but can’t remember yesterday let alone the sixties but do remember the nightlife and some good digs as well, one club used to do cheap booze up to about nine o’clock and we used to stock up so we did’nt have to pay full whack after the happy hour, i’ve seen me have a dozen whiskies and a couple of pints stored to put me on until closing time.
thanks harry long retired.
Years ago there was a brewery near the docks in Ipswich, and we would deliver lager to it, also we would park near the football club, and go to a club and dance, it just came to me, but the names once again elude me, I am sure some of you old truckers must have gone to them?
hiya,
Old driver Norm i may be, but a working memory i don’t have, but have been to Ipswich and overnighted on many occasions just can’t remember the names of digs and nightime places of entertainment.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello my old mate, I sent you a private message,hope you got it. Norman
hiya,
Yep Norm got it and replied.
thanks harry long retired.
It seems that the ones who done ipswich are not on line, and Harry I read it.
hiya,
My idea of something to do when parked up was find a little pub and have a couple of pints before bedtime and believe me there was some awful beer about never took much notice of who’s beer it was but it seemed to taste worse the further south you went Ipswich was awful stuff but the worst drop of beer i ever had was in Poole, i’ve never tasted stuff like that, i developed the Scots boys way of drinking you can’t go wrong taking a half and a half, a whisky and in my case half of lager that way you can fill your boots in any pub in the world and be sure of getting something worth drinking.
thanks harry long retired.
When I used to deliver to the brewery in Norwich, we would tip the tanker in the side street,where the ladies of the night would roam, I had my Tv set up, if it was not a night for a dance, and in the evening in the winter, they would knock on the door, and say do you want to do business, I would say no!, can I come in for a warm, and I would nod my head, then make a cup of tea. I had a good laugh when a couple of lads said they had a young girl knock their door , and ask for a cup of tea.
hiya,
Norm what next associating with ladies of the night and inviting them into the shed for a cuppa i hope you knocked them back when they offered you a freebie, and tea-making facilities in the motor, the nearest i ever came to cab luxuries was i once had a radio in a new ERF and ater a couple of trips i had a few words with the gaffer “i was in right as it happened” came back to pick my motor up next day and the idiot had taken the radio out, so i did’nt take the motor out and chucked it there and then, can’t work for sulking children.
thanks harry long retired.