Buzzer:
Roolechat or any one else, this picture was posted on Paul Gee’s thread and Dean reckons it is in Southampton, can anyone confirm this as to me it looks familiar, there was a coal yard by Mount Pleasant rail crossing so that’s why I am thinking it was near there, don’t think it is a grain truck but Dean thinks it is, any one know the road junction ? Buzzer
Thanks for all the input about where the Atki pic was taken.
However i thought it was Britannia Road i was thinking off where Saints now have there football club. As a kid i can
remember being parked in a que along that road with loads of other bulkers. Almost certain we were loaded with grain
but for the life of me i cant remember where we delivered it. Was there a grain silo ,storage warehouse there can anyone
remember ■■ Would have been around 1977/78 ish.
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Could it have been Dibles Wharf ■■
Dibles Wharf was the Radcliff Rd, P.D. (Powell-Duffryn) coal wharf wasnt it?
Between Elliotts Builders Merchants and the RMC concrete and gravel wharf?
PS: Bit further down on his left is what we called the 40 steps, “remember”.
my mother, long gone, told me about a young soldier who in an air raid at night jumped over the wall for protection and broke both legs not realising it was a 20 foot drop the other side, mum and a friend cared for him till help arrived. I often wondered if that could have saved his life as he would have missed D day.
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It’s slightly more than 20ft !
Great photograph mate, cheers, brings back so many memories. do you remember a bit further down the pub “Juniper berry”, that was atop the wall as well,so I was told !!! Harvey
HRS:
PS: Bit further down on his left is what we called the 40 steps, “remember”.
my mother, long gone, told me about a young soldier who in an air raid at night jumped over the wall for protection and broke both legs not realising it was a 20 foot drop the other side, mum and a friend cared for him till help arrived. I often wondered if that could have saved his life as he would have missed D day.
It’s slightly more than 20ft !
Great photograph mate, cheers, brings back so many memories. do you remember a bit further down the pub “Juniper berry”, that was atop the wall as well,so I was told !!! Harvey[/quo
Harvey trust you are well in the clean air of Scotland tucked away in your croft, I always thought the Juniper Berry was in Oxford street not that I ever frequented the place as it was known for customers who batted for the other side IIRC, Buzzer
HRS:
PS: Bit further down on his left is what we called the 40 steps, “remember”.
my mother, long gone, told me about a young soldier who in an air raid at night jumped over the wall for protection and broke both legs not realising it was a 20 foot drop the other side, mum and a friend cared for him till help arrived. I often wondered if that could have saved his life as he would have missed D day.
It’s slightly more than 20ft !
Great photograph mate, cheers, brings back so many memories. do you remember a bit further down the pub “Juniper berry”, that was atop the wall as well,so I was told !!! Harvey[/quo
Harvey trust you are well in the clean air of Scotland tucked away in your croft, I always thought the Juniper Berry was in Oxford street not that I ever frequented the place as it was known for customers who batted for the other side IIRC, Buzzer
There might be another one, but this is the one in Castle Square, just up from The Tudor House. Easy walk from the then lorry park by the Central Baths.
I went in there several decades ago, with my wife*, and others, to see what the fuss was about. Busy, characterful, to say the least. All sorts in there.
Found out later that one of the acts there, “Dockyard Doris” was a mental health nurse in her daytime job. Never judge a book by it`s cover maybe?
HRS:
PS: Bit further down on his left is what we called the 40 steps, “remember”.
my mother, long gone, told me about a young soldier who in an air raid at night jumped over the wall for protection and broke both legs not realising it was a 20 foot drop the other side, mum and a friend cared for him till help arrived. I often wondered if that could have saved his life as he would have missed D day.
It’s slightly more than 20ft !
Great photograph mate, cheers, brings back so many memories. do you remember a bit further down the pub “Juniper berry”, that was atop the wall as well,so I was told !!! Harvey[/quo
Harvey trust you are well in the clean air of Scotland tucked away in your croft, I always thought the Juniper Berry was in Oxford street not that I ever frequented the place as it was known for customers who batted for the other side IIRC, Buzzer
There might be another one, but this is the one in Castle Square, just up from The Tudor House. Easy walk from the then lorry park by the Central Baths.
I went in there several decades ago, with my wife*, and others, to see what the fuss was about. Busy, characterful, to say the least. All sorts in there.
Found out later that one of the acts there, “Dockyard Doris” was a mental health nurse in her daytime job. Never judge a book by it`s cover maybe?
HRS:
PS: Bit further down on his left is what we called the 40 steps, “remember”.
my mother, long gone, told me about a young soldier who in an air raid at night jumped over the wall for protection and broke both legs not realising it was a 20 foot drop the other side, mum and a friend cared for him till help arrived. I often wondered if that could have saved his life as he would have missed D day.
It’s slightly more than 20ft !
Great photograph mate, cheers, brings back so many memories. do you remember a bit further down the pub “Juniper berry”, that was atop the wall as well,so I was told !!! Harvey[/quo
Harvey trust you are well in the clean air of Scotland tucked away in your croft, I always thought the Juniper Berry was in Oxford street not that I ever frequented the place as it was known for customers who batted for the other side IIRC, Buzzer
There might be another one, but this is the one in Castle Square, just up from The Tudor House. Easy walk from the then lorry park by the Central Baths.
I went in there several decades ago, with my wife*, and others, to see what the fuss was about. Busy, characterful, to say the least. All sorts in there.
Found out later that one of the acts there, “Dockyard Doris” was a mental health nurse in her daytime job. Never judge a book by it`s cover maybe?
*Don`t want you getting the wrong idea now!
That’s the one and only infamous Juniper Berry
Maybe I got tha wrong I might have been thinking of the Grapes, help Buzzer
Hi all, i used to load Johnson & Johnson boxes, we picked up empty from Portchester then load bananas from Portsmouth tip in Huddersfield i think or Bradford full load of bananas they did bend a bit as they had no chassis either, then up to Gargrave swap trailer’s down to Basingstoke swap again then back to Portchester. Those box trailers had twin axle’s right at the back and only single narrow wheel’s not super single’s and if i remember right only about 30 ft long. Happy day’s.
Great photograph mate, cheers, brings back so many memories. do you remember a bit further down the pub “Juniper berry”, that was atop the wall as well,so I was told !!! Harvey[/quo
Harvey trust you are well in the clean air of Scotland tucked away in your croft, I always thought the Juniper Berry was in Oxford street not that I ever frequented the place as it was known for customers who batted for the other side IIRC, Buzzer
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Yes, both well thanks John.
Mary has raspatory issues so being out in the sticks is good but getting supplies and medication a little problem, all home delivery supermarkets fully booked up but as old Terry Wogan would say, not to worry.
By telling us you thought the Juniper Berry was in Oxford street tells us you did not frequent the place, well done.
Trust you and yours are well and hunkering down for the duration, take care. Harvey
Good morning all,
How many of you realise the new “Saints” football ground should have been called “Northam Stadium” NOT St Marys Stadium.
St Marys ended when you went over the old railway line heading East from the 6 dials and entered Northam. first pub on your right was later called the SPUTNICK, turn right there, gas works on your right and that is the new Stadium.
If you had turned LEFT over the old railway bridge a lot of yards there stored coal. Head down, Harvey
HRS:
Good morning all,
How many of you realise the new “Saints” football ground should have been called “Northam Stadium” NOT St Marys Stadium.
St Marys ended when you went over the old railway line heading East from the 6 dials and entered Northam. first pub on your right was later called the SPUTNICK, turn right there, gas works on your right and that is the new Stadium.
If you had turned LEFT over the old railway bridge a lot of yards there stored coal. Head down, Harvey
Harvey if you turned right up by the gas works you would meet a lot of traffic coming at you one way now mate, Buzzer
The docks still refuse to unload containers without twistlocks & in the day they would not unload ones with clamp on twist locks,but ironicly when we move the oil drilling rigs they say your not holding the containers on with just those silly locks put some chains & we do because the customer is always right
Cheers
Rich
As containerisation grew virtually all So’ton area hauliers acquired or hired twistlock trailers.The market for clamp on twistlocks was very small & short lived.However there was a principle involved & to encourage their acceptance a demonstration was arranged at 201 in Nov 1974. This involved a 12 T 20ft container secured to it’s trailer by Klemp Klamps, carrying out a series of emergency stops. The demonstration was watched by members of the Dock Liason Committee (RHA/BTDB/TGWU) & various stevedores & shop stewards.
After the demonstration the shop stewards could find no reason to reject the use of the clamps but neither would they approve of their use.It was generally agreed by the stevedores that because the clamp’s strength relied on the trailer side rave to which it was attached “some supervision would be needed by the union”.The stevedores also “would still need to watch out for the cowboys”
As previously mentioned,this issue was a small part of the stevedores struggle to to impose their influence & control over areas which they considered to be theirs-& not just within the port.
In all the other (non container) berths & sheds the stevedores had no interest in how vehicle loads were secured
Alan Watkins RIP had a contract from Sweetheart Plastics as it was then, mostly boxvan’s and also had return load traffic from Port Sunlight wharf Liverpool believe that was Unilever,very light loads up and heavy back. Alan liked a drink in the Coach & Horses in Titchfield just down the road from his yard nice to chat to but had a temper when things went wrong. Yard and pub all now houses went by both yesterday on the way to the butcher’s Buzzer
Picture from the Paul Gee site, 2 Caterpillar 769 Dump trucks (the 2nd is still on the fuel pumps behind Tilbury’s Leyland recovery vehicle) en route to So’ton docks for export
Would have been around 1977/78 ish.
