Hiya,
It looks like all the former Fearing’s drivers have gone to the big haulage yard
in the sky, there’s been zero interest for a long time, when you think about it
I would have been the youngest driver in the yard the both times I worked for
them and I’m now pushing 80, but they did work on until not too long ago and
they moved out to the Accrington road area before closure I believe.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hiya,
Well maybe somebody will look in, well it is Christmas.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hiya,
Happy New Year everybody Oh’ there’s no’one there, that’s a surprise.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hiya,
Still nowt doing but I live in hope someone might just have a pic or two
or remember something, they haven’t been gone all that long.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hiya Harry. A chap started a thread yesterday called " Burnley area old guys ", he mentions working for Fearings. Might be a " new lead " eh ■■
Regards. John.
old 67:
Hiya Harry. A chap started a thread yesterday called " Burnley area old guys ", he mentions working for Fearings. Might be a " new lead " eh ■■
Regards. John.
Hiya,
Thanks “old 67” j’ll see if I can find it, It’s nearly 60 years ago since I got
my first start at Fearing’s.
thanks harry, long retired.
I worked for Alan Hindle years ago and it was said that he worked at fearings…also I work with a bloke named Roy Conway can’t remember if he said he worked at readings but he definitely drove for Donagadee carpets.
A bit of info for Harry
Mr. Winston Fearing Hall was the company director of Fearing’s Transport Limited. He started there in 1991 at 45 years of age.
Brian Fearing Hall Passed away peacefully in the Royal Blackburn Hospital,
15th August 2016, Brian aged 75 years. The most loving son of the late Matthew Fearing Hall and Freda Constance Hall, dear brother of Deborah and the late Winston Fearing Hall,
Hiya Harry, I hope that you and “The Management” are both well. 
I came across this and I wondered if this was your same Fearings at 11 min, 25 secs. I don’t think that it’s your old Vulcan as it looks too clean. 
youtube.com/watch?v=e160PxlssrU
Take care Harry lad. 
Regards Steve.
mushroomman:
Hiya Harry, I hope that you and “The Management” are both well.I came across this and I wondered if this was your same Fearings at 11 min, 25 secs. I don’t think that it’s your old Vulcan as it looks too clean.
youtube.com/watch?v=e160PxlssrU
Take care Harry lad.
Regards Steve.
Hiya,
Thank’s for the clip Steve, but defo to shiny for me I was often told
to use the wash but no’one ever showed me where it was, that job
never appealed to me anyway they only got mucky again so why do
it in the first place, The Missus is doing fine mate she’s had all her
treatments surgery, chemo and radiotherapy and it’s just a case of
her being checked over the next five years so things are looking up.
thanks harry, long retired.
Harry I think this must have gone missing from your thread due to Photobucket removing lots of photos unless payment is made so here it is again just for you mate.
Stanfield:
Harry I think this must have gone missing from your thread due to Photobucket removing lots of photos unless payment is made so here it is again just for you mate.
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Hiya,
Thanks for that Mr S I wondered where that had got to, I wonder
was it (when and if ever in eight wheeled guise) their old wag n
drag motor that used to do the tea on London night trunk in the
late 50s if so I did that job with the same motor for a week or so
while the regular driver was in hospital just a thought but it was
a long time ago when I was just 21 I’m now 81.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hiya,
Well since I last looked on here Brian Hall the Guvnor at Fearings has
passed away I remember him being in the office at their Lebanon St
depot back in the late 50s, I guess he would have been my age.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hiya,
Just giving it a tweak so’s it doesn’t fall off the end of the world, and you
never know someone might just have a contribution, make my day.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Well since I last looked on here Brian Hall the Guvnor at Fearings has
passed away I remember him being in the office at their Lebanon St
depot back in the late 50s, I guess he would have been my age.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hi Harry, when we were young, 81 was - well my Grandad was eighty and he seemed…Old!
Now I’m seventy, it just doesn’t anymore!
Love the name Lebanon Street! How many Burnleyites ever went to the Lebanon! Maybe some in the first war?
John.
John West:
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Well since I last looked on here Brian Hall the Guvnor at Fearings has
passed away I remember him being in the office at their Lebanon St
depot back in the late 50s, I guess he would have been my age.
thanks harry, long retired.Hi Harry, when we were young, 81 was - well my Grandad was eighty and he seemed…Old!
Now I’m seventy, it just doesn’t anymore!
Love the name Lebanon Street! How many Burnleyites ever went to the Lebanon! Maybe some in the first war?
John.
Hiya,
Thanks for the reply John, since the above post I’ve “birthdayed” again now
82 but feel like nearer 92 true when 70 I did feel more like 50 but the last
12 years have bunged the “old man” at me, but still breathing and getting
out and about, albeit slowly, very slowly. I’d have been about 21 when I did
my first bit for Fearings and did another spell there in my early 30s.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
John West:
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Well since I last looked on here Brian Hall the Guvnor at Fearings has
passed away I remember him being in the office at their Lebanon St
depot back in the late 50s, I guess he would have been my age.
thanks harry, long retired.Hi Harry, when we were young, 81 was - well my Grandad was eighty and he seemed…Old!
Now I’m seventy, it just doesn’t anymore!
Love the name Lebanon Street! How many Burnleyites ever went to the Lebanon! Maybe some in the first war?
John.
Hiya,
Thanks for the reply John, since the above post I’ve “birthdayed” again now
82 but feel like nearer 92 true when 70 I did feel more like 50 but the last
12 years have bunged the “old man” at me, but still breathing and getting
out and about, albeit slowly, very slowly. I’d have been about 21 when I did
my first bit for Fearings and did another spell there in my early 30s.
thanks harry, long retired.
Keep breathing Harry! My stepmother died at age 94. She said she only started feeling old in her eighties. My problem is that I still think I can do the jobs I used to - well, I can, but… Just finished some fencing - Larch lap, not en-garde! You know the kind of thing. A couple of sheets, a couple of hours work. Until you find the metposts have rotted, but the neighbour cemented them in, so you can’t get them out. 2 hours turns into 2 days and I’m absolutely shagged out! I suspect you would struggle to do fencing of any sort now!
I remember Fearings, I started in 1969 and they were certainly going then - possibly about the time you were driving for them the second time. You remember how you knew every company and where they came from. Back when it was ‘Eddie Stobart - Caldbeck’ and he had about 3 wagons, and the recently demised Tyson H Burridge, not from Distington then, but ‘Mockerkin, Cockermouth.’
All the best,
John.
scud:
Tankerman:
Hi Harry,I used to park at the Roma in Bury when I was on the Shell Stanlow to BP at Hull run. Fearings drivers would always pick us up and give us a lift home.
One lad eventually came to work for us and he told me he had acquired enough tea to last him a life time, know what I mean Harry?.
If I remember rightly their garage was somewhere between Brunshaw lane and Todmorden road, near Townley park.Somebody mentioned Feather and Kent so I have posted photos of their lorries below.
Russell.
Morning Harry, do you mind if i copy the photo of feather and kent,s mandator .
Regards Richard.
I think the driver who gave you a lift would have been my dad alan slinger ex fearings
Hiya
Richard I haven’t a clue who owns Feather and Kent’s pics.
thanks harry, long retired.
