Great North Road book

v7robbie · 14 March 2011 19:50

most of them are , if you look in the background you can see an old antar tank transporter from the 50s.

v7victor · 14 March 2011 20:10

v7robbie:
most of them are , if you look in the background you can see an old antar tank transporter from the 50s.

I knew them well i used to call in for a cuppa on my way up to Berwick, they had a lot of ex mod Bedfords in those days Rob, when you was just a youngun.

night_shift_bri · 14 March 2011 21:45

There was an article on Jackson’s in CVC about a year ago.

bumper · 15 March 2011 19:38

hi lads, lonewolf, the dog leg at haggerston, was straightened out mid 60ty-70ty, the junction you are on about was a right bend, traffic coming from the left had to give way, that road took you back to lowick, as you went north the road dipped and there used to be an old mill building that is now house’s, then there was the chimney stack about 800 yards farther up that has just be converted into a house,here is a photo where that dog leg started at haggerston cottages,bumper

v7victor · 15 March 2011 19:45

Yeah, the next place north would be the Black cat pub.

lonewolf_yorks · 15 March 2011 21:51

I delivered the text yesterday. At last. Its taken me 6 years. Now I have to start on the photography.

night_shift_bri · 17 April 2011 20:11

What’s the latest on your Great North Road book as we’ve heard nothing for a month, any idea when it will be published?

lonewolf_yorks · 18 April 2011 19:31

At the moment the publishers are working on a couple of other books so its in the queue. How long that will take I do not know.

night_shift_bri · 18 April 2011 20:12

Lonewolf Yorks:
At the moment the publishers are working on a couple of other books so its in the queue. How long that will take I do not know.

Ok ta, keep us informed and good luck.

suedehead · 18 April 2011 20:38

v7victor:

animal:

v7victor:
I don’t think Jacksons garage between Morpeth and Felton has had a mention,Two brothers done 24 hr brakedowns on the a1 in this area in the70s. I think they are still there now.

Is that the 1 on the right hand side just North of Morpeth with all the “old” trucks in as well as some land rovers normally ex army ( or in there colours ) If so it is still there as well as the big lay by

Yeah thats the one.

Is there still a snackvan behind that place?

animal · 18 April 2011 20:58

Suedehead:

v7victor:

animal:

v7victor:
I don’t think Jacksons garage between Morpeth and Felton has had a mention,Two brothers done 24 hr brakedowns on the a1 in this area in the70s. I think they are still there now.

Is that the 1 on the right hand side just North of Morpeth with all the “old” trucks in as well as some land rovers normally ex army ( or in there colours ) If so it is still there as well as the big lay by

Yeah thats the one.

Is there still a snackvan behind that place?

As far as I know there is ( was last time I looked a couple month back )

jfc999 · 25 April 2011 14:07

A bit late now i suppose but having read all posts on A1 ive only seen greasy Normans mentioned once ! It was a wonderful establishment loved and hated equally. Only ever ate there never overnighted , too close to home , but i think drivers used to go to a boozer just over the bridge in Brotherton heard many a tale of good nights in there. Jim.

jeh · 8 May 2011 20:09

Lonewolf Yorks:
Great anecdote Charles thats the kind of thing I’m after.

go to u tube then alnwick then alnwick to edinburgh in 7 mins.on tape reel via very old a1

animal · 8 May 2011 21:55

jeh:

Lonewolf Yorks:
Great anecdote Charles thats the kind of thing I’m after.

go to u tube then alnwick then alnwick to edinburgh in 7 mins.on tape reel via very old a1

Can you post the link please

jimbo99 · 13 May 2011 15:34

Here is the link for the Alnwick to Edinburgh film.

Best Regards… Jimbo99

jimbo99 · 13 May 2011 15:35

Silly me, forgot to post the link…Here it is

youtube.com/watch?v=GPTei47Hxew

I can’t wait for the Great North Road book, I travelled it hundreds (or Thousands) of times when I worked for Herrings of Hartlepool in the Sixties and Seventies.

I still use the A1 at least five or six times a year, I moved south to live in 1979, I retired in 2001 but I still use it regularly to travel North to see my family and friends still living in Hartlepool.

Best Regards…Jimbo99

jeh · 21 May 2011 18:32

bumper:
hi lads,only new it as grantshouse cafe, it closed as a cafe in the early 70tys opened as a tourist and tarten shop for a while then went back to a cafe,last time i went past it was been used by some plant/machine outfitt,always used the little cafe just before dunbar,it was just after the railway bridge nextto the blacksmiths,this closed when they put the first dunbar by pass in,after that used the cafe at haddington, some of the older drivers will remember these cafe’s, bumper

anvil cafe @dunbar
oak tree @haddington

jeh · 21 May 2011 18:41

Chris Webb:
That green shed would be the one at Scremerston I think Archie.Do you remember the Clock cafe just south of Scotch Corner on the n/bound side of the A1?

remember the port cafe where washington north bound services are now?

jls_driver_sos · 23 May 2011 06:22

We had the contract out of Ecko Plastics Southend for Bumpers to Nissan in Washington, great run up the A1 in the late 80’s early 90’s, half single half dual carriageway then, I have heard its changed. Could still do SOS to Washington and back on 10 hours driving and that was without speeding, there never seemed to be traffis jams.
remember a road side cafe on a roundabout in Nottingham by the sign for Sherwood Forest

lonewolf_yorks · 28 May 2011 09:26

That roundabout has changed now, the A1 goes straight through as dual carriageway and the roundabout serves the slip roads and the A57. The caff was in a big layby just after the roundabout, like a log cabin thing. It was burned out a few years back.