that defo sounds like taylors on the old kent road . 1 shilling gas meters for the fire in winter , lasted 10 minutes then put another bob in. bloody place was a firetrap with the narrow stairs . the lord montague with its , ahem , adult entertainment , first place i ever saw plastic pint pots , but it could get a bit lively at times . we sometimes took a taxi to the adam and eve at peckham to see mike read in his hayday . good times , start at 7-30 after brekky and no sweat going north through london , cheers , dave
Another cafe & digs comes to mind The Cambridge Transport & Oxford House Hotel in Newport it was a nice place to stay good food I think it was in Herbert St. & Im sure there was a weighbridge in the street. I stopped there often when I was tipping at RTBs at LLanwern steel works, happy days the 50/60s. Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Another cafe & digs comes to mind The Cambridge Transport & Oxford House Hotel in Newport it was a nice place to stay good food I think it was in Herbert St. & Im sure there was a weighbridge in the street. I stopped there often when I was tipping at RTBs at LLanwern steel works, happy days the 50/60s. Regards Larry.
I never stayed there Larry but it was just round the corner from Mrs Bales’ digs on Cardiff Road,and you are right about that weighbridge. 
IIRC there was a digs in Newport that had a “bandit” in the lobby( one with an Indians head full of tanners) and the old cow that ran the digs used know when the jackpot was ready to drop and used to keep “dabbing” in with the odd tanner to try and drop it!! my mate once fed £32(1967) into it and never got a " touch" !!! Happy days!! Dennis.
32 Smackers in 1967, bloody hell he must have loaded or bloody mad, that was a canny bit of dough in those days, the only winner was the machine owner, Regards Larry.
Bewick:
IIRC there was a digs in Newport that had a “bandit” in the lobby( one with an Indians head full of tanners) and the old cow that ran the digs used know when the jackpot was ready to drop and used to keep “dabbing” in with the odd tanner to try and drop it!! my mate once fed £32(1967) into it and never got a " touch" !!! Happy days!! Dennis.
hiya,
Around the early 60s I had my Sunday lunch in the in the Jungle on a weekly basis in those days there was "the Jungle Drivers Club"and the bandits in the cafe were only allowed to be played by the members of this “exclusive club” this I believe was to get round the gaming laws of the time, in the queue I put a couple of “tanners” in one of the machines while I was waiting to be served and dropped the jackpot which fell into the tray but behind a metal plate and the only way to get your money was to show your membership card at the counter you know to keep things legal like, I never was a member and out of about twenty odd drivers in the cafe and in their cabs on the car park not one driver was member of the “club” I even offered anybody who loaned me their membership card to go “halfies” with them yep nobody was carded and I didn’t get me brass never put any money in the “Jungle Staff Benevolent Fund” ever again, I think there was about twelve bob in the tray still wondering who drank that.
thanks harry long retired…
harry_gill:
Bewick:
IIRC there was a digs in Newport that had a “bandit” in the lobby( one with an Indians head full of tanners) and the old cow that ran the digs used know when the jackpot was ready to drop and used to keep “dabbing” in with the odd tanner to try and drop it!! my mate once fed £32(1967) into it and never got a " touch" !!! Happy days!! Dennis.hiya,
Around the early 60s I had my Sunday lunch in the in the Jungle on a weekly basis in those days there was "the Jungle Drivers Club"and the bandits in the cafe were only allowed to be played by the members of this “exclusive club” this I believe was to get round the gaming laws of the time, in the queue I put a couple of “tanners” in one of the machines while I was waiting to be served and dropped the jackpot which fell into the tray but behind a metal plate and the only way to get your money was to show your membership card at the counter you know to keep things legal like, I never was a member and out of about twenty odd drivers in the cafe and in their cabs on the car park not one driver was member of the “club” I even offered anybody who loaned me their membership card to go “halfies” with them yep nobody was carded and I didn’t get me brass never put any money in the “Jungle Staff Benevolent Fund” ever again, I think there was about twelve bob in the tray still wondering who drank that.
thanks harry long retired…
Who-ever it was he deserves a medal for getting one over on you Harry. Not many will fall into that category I bet!! Regards Kev.
the machine must have been bolted down or it would have been off on trunk .
Hi Harry ,Larry,Talking about the Jungle,back in 1967 when i was on night trunk to Bathgate i used to go in the Jungle 6 nights a week once me and a couple of mates from Tunstall depot got banned out for a month for fiddling the bandit.after a fortnight we crept back in with a bunch of flowers for Elsie ,the lass behind the counter,she just smiled and all was forgiven,good times eh.Cheers Ted.
toxic gas man:
Hi Harry ,Larry,Talking about the Jungle,back in 1967 when i was on night trunk to Bathgate i used to go in the Jungle 6 nights a week once me and a couple of mates from Tunstall depot got banned out for a month for fiddling the bandit.after a fortnight we crept back in with a bunch of flowers for Elsie ,the lass behind the counter,she just smiled and all was forgiven,good times eh.Cheers Ted.
hiya,
Ted I’ll bet you didn’t become a member of the “Jungle Drivers Club” but on reflection it may have been finished in 1967 the gaming laws had been relaxed a bit and I think so long as you was 18 you could play the bandits in 67 I was mainly traveling “darn sarf” and if I got loaded on the odd occasion for “Scotch” it was A1 and A66 to get over the side for Glasgow, your turn for the teas Ted
Another old cafe at Kexby Bridge, on the A1079 south of York . I used to breafast there on my way to Hull, good food cooked to order & nice & clean, Shell Filling Station also. I think its now a Oriental Establishment.?.It was a regular stop for Shorties drivers,& Gilbraiths from Accrington, I remember on of their drivers put petrol in by mistake, caused a right problem, Happy days Larry
kevmac47:
harry_gill:
Bewick:
IIRC there was a digs in Newport that had a “bandit” in the lobby( one with an Indians head full of tanners) and the old cow that ran the digs used know when the jackpot was ready to drop and used to keep “dabbing” in with the odd tanner to try and drop it!! my mate once fed £32(1967) into it and never got a " touch" !!! Happy days!! Dennis.hiya,
Around the early 60s I had my Sunday lunch in the in the Jungle on a weekly basis in those days there was "the Jungle Drivers Club"and the bandits in the cafe were only allowed to be played by the members of this “exclusive club” this I believe was to get round the gaming laws of the time, in the queue I put a couple of “tanners” in one of the machines while I was waiting to be served and dropped the jackpot which fell into the tray but behind a metal plate and the only way to get your money was to show your membership card at the counter you know to keep things legal like, I never was a member and out of about twenty odd drivers in the cafe and in their cabs on the car park not one driver was member of the “club” I even offered anybody who loaned me their membership card to go “halfies” with them yep nobody was carded and I didn’t get me brass never put any money in the “Jungle Staff Benevolent Fund” ever again, I think there was about twelve bob in the tray still wondering who drank that.
thanks harry long retired…Who-ever it was he deserves a medal for getting one over on you Harry. Not many will fall into that category I bet!! Regards Kev.
hiya,
Yes Kev and it would have to be similar in size to a dustbin lid, I did console myself with hoping they got a hangover with my money and got locked up for being drunk and disorderly.
thanks harry long retired.
Oh Harry you are naughty sometimes,fancy wishing that on some complete stranger, Im sure you wouldent wish them any harm, if they had spent on Scotch Maidens Water, would you, , Go on have another shot , I am before I retire to my bed in fact I might have two. Cheers Larry
Charlie Bailey’s at Kirkby Thore, his old woman was a funny one ,any one remember them,and the son Peter.
I seem to remember when you came off woodhead and turned right at the flouch crossroads towards sheffield,there was a bungalow on the left hand side which served as a cafe, perhaps chris can remember it
Another old cafe, The Central Cafe Market Place Thirsk open all night, fave stop for night trunkers in 50/60s, never kipt there but the food was decent & the place was clean anyone remember it, long gone now of course. Regards Larry
jeffreyk:
I seem to remember when you came off woodhead and turned right at the flouch crossroads towards sheffield,there was a bungalow on the left hand side which served as a cafe, perhaps chris can remember it
I remember it well jeff,run by two nice old lasses,bottom of Langsett Hill towards Sheffield.Tablecloths with teapot - a big teapot - and real good snap.There were photos in the cafe when the old viaduct over the River Etherow was lengthened,the one where the bad bends were,towards Manchester.Also pics of steam trains and later electric trains running over Woodhead,you could see the tracks on the left and I recall both steam and leccy on that line,being an “elderly driver”.
No bloody comment from Morecambe please. 
anon
I don’t know if its been mentioned before but in the early seventies the lorry park in the centre of Birmingham use to be on Saint Mary’s Road underneath the flyover near to the Bull Ring. The cafe was just around the corner where there was a transport company that did the fruit markets and another company that did parcels but I can’t remember what the cafe was called. Just down the street was a pub called I.I.R.C. The Railway, it was run by a big Irish fellow called Ray who had five five lovely daughters. Ray would make the drivers a ham or a cheese and pickle sandwich that was always made on extra thick toasting bread, I think that it was opposite the railway goods yard, anybody remember that one.
Regards Steve.
What was the cafe on the old rd coming into sutton bridge called.It was on the west side of sutton bridge just after lockwood foods.It was a white painted cottage with a coca cola m/c outside.You had to park in a long lay-by opposite.I think it was run by 2 sisters and their mum,the food was great and i preffered it to the farm cafe.
regards dave.
The Derry lets see,
leek and potato soup and bun.
Gammon and chips,egg,beans,mushrooms. two bread and butter.
Apple crumble with ice cream 
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2 cups of tea hmm nice just a little snack to keep the human engine running, always a nice welcome and i
always enjoyed the food but the best was it is a true transport cafe.
Which a few and far now. 