F2000 boy:
If i remember correctly didn’t you millingtons tow one home from garston one night with something like a fordson major > Imagine what mr vosa would say to that nowadays
F2000 sorry don’t remember that particular time but it woulden’t surprise me as we did a lot of crazy things like that. There was a time when father lost a load of waste papier at the top of the old Runcorn bank after a car cut him up. That involved getting the old major and loader out to reload the Lancashire flat. Then there was the time I towed him back from Paris after he picked up a piston.I was loaded and he was empty but not wanting to lose out and trying to make the best of a bad thing he had me call at Lille and load him. Now we are both 38ton and i’m towing him on a chain !!! I draged him on the boat and of at Dover. We then dropped trailers and I towed him up to the Scania agents for a new piston and liner. The things we used to do to earn a crust
F2000 boy:
If i remember correctly didn’t you millingtons tow one home from garston one night with something like a fordson major > Imagine what mr vosa would say to that nowadays
F2000 sorry don’t remember that particular time but it woulden’t surprise me as we did a lot of crazy things like that. There was a time when father lost a load of waste papier at the top of the old Runcorn bank after a car cut him up. That involved getting the old major and loader out to reload the Lancashire flat. Then there was the time I towed him back from Paris after he picked up a piston.I was loaded and he was empty but not wanting to lose out and trying to make the best of a bad thing he had me call at Lille and load him. Now we are both 38ton and i’m towing him on a chain !!! I draged him on the boat and of at Dover. We then dropped trailers and I towed him up to the Scania agents for a new piston and liner. The things we used to do to earn a crust
No wonder you are now on heavy haulage now Keith .
Cheers Dave.
dessert driver:
Hi boys
I remember Western point and Garston Dock from the early 70’s but sorry no photos. The cafe as I remember was on the right as you went down the main road into Garston dock and we used to park on the road cannot remember that rough park. Spent many an hour there waiting for Irish Sea ferries boat to come in. They were down to the right and used a old crane with wire rope slings and shackles to lift the boxes. The crane driver was called Sid. he had a heart attack while up there and it took the fire and ambulance lads ages to get him down.He was ok but they wouldn’t let him go up again. About 1973 Cawards started using the dock right down to the left taking over where the timber boats used to dock. There used to be a tanker boat that used to take effluent out to sea or when no one was looking dumped it in the dock I went around that end of the dock recently, the side entrance looks as if it has been closed up for a number of years. Lots of memories but no photos
Hiya…wow thats the first time ive seen the brige…if it was windy it would’nt dock i was told.what year was the road
bridge opened was it as late as IICR 1966ish
John
If you want to know more about t’transporter bridge,just google Stanley Holloway monologues and then look at “Runcorn ferry”,another mess that t’Ramsbottoms got into with our Albert.
Great stuff.
Chris Webb:
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If you want to know more about t’transporter bridge,just google Stanley Holloway monologues and then look at “Runcorn ferry”,another mess that t’Ramsbottoms got into with our Albert.
Great stuff.
Used to go with my dad in the mid 60’s to pick up Irish Sea Ferry containers, but never went there myself
The transporter bridge closed and the new bridge opened in 1961.
I was in the army and my mate lived in Widnes, I stayed at his house once when we were on leave and he took me over the old bridge. I was demobbed in may 1961 and soon after I went to see him and bring him home on leave in my car. We used the new bridge then.
There was a company in Garston called General Wharfage and one job they had was importing pig iron to the dock, Gilbraith haulage bought them out in about 1966 and used to send the tippers to Garston to move the stuff to the yard near the dock so the ship could be turned round quicker, they had a big crane with a magnet on for reloading the stuff. Another job they had was moving ships propellers and the had a special trailer which allowed the propellers to be tilted. They had a LAD cab leyland on the job and when Gilbraith took over they got a new Ergomatic cab Leyland six wheel unit.
The photo above was taken in Gilbraith’s yard at Accrington. The building behind was the Nori brickyard canteen which Gilbraith drivers and fitters used as well.
Having got no replies following request for pictures of Weston Point Docks @ Runcorn has any body got any pictures of Garston docks during the 90’s. Come on you midland lads backloading steel off Armitt’s and Shaw Lovell
This is the best I can do mate, it’s me parked opposite the cafe just outside Garston Dock gates after loading from Shaw Lovells for Gt.Yarmouth. At a guess I would say it was 1996.
I’d forgotten all about Weston Point, I used to load salt from there many years ago and it always seemed to blowing "a hooley,"not the best place to sheet and rope, very little shelter. Regards Haddy.
Hi boys
I remember Western point and Garston Dock from the early 70’s but sorry no photos. The cafe as I remember was on the right as you went down the main road into Garston dock and we used to park on the road cannot remember that rough park. Spent many an hour there waiting for Irish Sea ferries boat to come in. They were down to the right and used a old crane with wire rope slings and shackles to lift the boxes. The crane driver was called Sid. he had a heart attack while up there and it took the fire and ambulance lads ages to get him down.He was ok but they wouldn’t let him go up again. About 1973 Cawards started using the dock right down to the left taking over where the timber boats used to dock. There used to be a tanker boat that used to take effluent out to sea or when no one was looking dumped it in the dock I went around that end of the dock recently, the side entrance looks as if it has been closed up for a number of years. Lots of memories but no photos
Sorry no pics, but in the mid 1960’s to the late 70’s my old man used to have a business on what was then called The Garston Trading Estate. Straight down the road from Garston Village to the docks, turn left and it was all Garston Bottle (?) Co. 8 wheelers and trailers. Lots of Leylands as I remember. Used to be a cafe set into the wall which always had a pan of scouse on the go.
Loaded salt from Weston Point in the early 80’s for Ireland several times too.
In June 2009 took a narrowboat I then had from the Manchester Ship Canal to Albert Dock which was great, fantastic views of the waterfront from Garston westwards.
Very tidy along there now, but not much work
If i remember correctly didn’t you millingtons tow one home from garston one night with something like a fordson major > Imagine what mr vosa would say to that nowadays
> Imagine what mr vosa would say to that nowadays
I went around that end of the dock recently, the side entrance looks as if it has been closed up for a number of years. Lots of memories but no photos
Weston point
anyone remember this
another view John
widnes transporter bridge 1905-1961
