Hi.
Got my Bacon/Sausage and Egg head on now! along with my,“Tipper” head. Chrises ?Caravan, big laybye,A1 north just after,“Bloody Oaks” and Stamford turn off. When in Hot Pursuit module,northbound,would call him up on the CB "Banjo to Go !"from just down the road,got it timed dead right,pull in get banjo and off again,before the trailer had stopped bouncing 6’ in the air. There was another caravan cafe,run by two ladies in a laybye,just after “Compass” corner roundabout A1 South after Grantham,clean as a whistle,and good grub.
hulltramper aka Gannet!
PS. If you are going to drink from a bottle while driving,make sure it’s Plastic,if it’s Glass,if you hit a bump you could chip your teeth,also make sure you can reach your bait box,if all the traffic lights are GREEN,you could starve to death before you reached your drop.
hulltramper:
Hi.
I think the chap at the Silver Wheel derby had sad time,i was led to believe that his son,or some relative was travelling to open up/work there,and got killed in a bad smash,cannot vouch for that,so this is/was the reason why they lost interest. Never used it,it was to close to home,but heard he was an ok bloke,and the cafe was good.
hulltraper
I seem to recall a story back in the '70s that a member of “Showaddywaddy” owned the Silver Wheel at one time, don’t know if it’s true though!
Hi Haddy.
It could be right,one of them used t live at Chellaston,not a million miles away.How do i know ? We put an underground,“Intelligent head ?” ,mole through his karsi pipe,and had to go back and hand dig it out to replace the broken pipe.
hulltramper
hulltramper:
Hi Haddy.
It could be right,one of them used t live at Chellaston,not a million miles away.How do i know ? We put an underground,“Intelligent head ?” ,mole through his karsi pipe,and had to go back and hand dig it out to replace the broken pipe.
hulltramper
That sounds like a crappy job mate!
Hi haddy
Yes it was,but i was working for an Irish pipeline co.,tipper/fuel bowser/hi-ab,.and if they were REALLY desperate,GRAB wagon. In my times on the grab,i took a streets phone lines down,emptied the bucket of dust over an irish ganger,he stood there like a flour grader,breathed deeply,sighed,and said up to me,who was laughing his head off. "My mother warned me of three things when i was young,beware of horses hooves,beware of bulls horns,but beware most of all,of a
Smiling ENGLISHMAN,and chased me down the road with a shovel. Happy days and bloody good money !
How i wish i could roll back the years and get back in their yard again,but like all good things the job has closed,and the men all off back to Ireland,car boots FULL of money,fair play to them.
Hulltramper.
hulltramper:
Hi haddy
Yes it was,but i was working for an Irish pipeline co.,tipper/fuel bowser/hi-ab,.and if they were REALLY desperate,GRAB wagon. In my times on the grab,i took a streets phone lines down,emptied the bucket of dust over an irish ganger,he stood there like a flour grader,breathed deeply,sighed,and said up to me,who was laughing his head off. "My mother warned me of three things when i was young,beware of horses hooves,beware of bulls horns,but beware most of all,of a
Smiling ENGLISHMAN,and chased me down the road with a shovel. Happy days and bloody good money !
How i wish i could roll back the years and get back in their yard again,but like all good things the job has closed,and the men all off back to Ireland,car boots FULL of money,fair play to them.
Hulltramper.
hiya,
Would that be Kilroe’s Hulltramper ■■.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hi Harry.
No,McLoughlins Pipelines Derby,worked there twice,moved to Southampton,got burgled four times,(Away with Robsons of Carlisle while down there),never in. The wife came back from walking the dog one day,bobby sat outside,he says to her,“No wonder you keep getting broken into,your never here”. What would have happened,if she had been going out to work !She pulled the pin there.Came back to derby,had a phone call,would i like to go back with them ?.TO BLOODY RIGHT. Good firm,good money,but best of all,the greatest of blokes,from Johnny Mc,down.
hulltramper
Hi Harry.
He bought out Eric.Johnson and Stubbs,liverpool,there came some good lads from there… "All’right lar ?
why did all the snack vans disappear from the A34 just off M42.
shirtbox2003:
why did all the snack vans disappear from the A34 just off M42.
do you mean the m40 ?,there were quite a few.the first one off the motorway either side was 24 hour which was realy handy if you were on afternoons running back to the midlands and nice big layby’s
The local Oxfordshire council got rid of all the snack vans that used to be on the A34 South of J9 M40.
Didn’t want large vehicles pulling out into traffic, thought that the vans were unsanitary AND wanted them all to go to J10 services out of the way
‘Don’t be dead tired Take a break’ or something like that the signs say.
davidcox:
The local Oxfordshire council got rid of all the snack vans that used to be on the A34 South of J9 M40.
Didn’t want large vehicles pulling out into traffic, thought that the vans were unsanitary AND wanted them all to go to J10 services out of the way‘Don’t be dead tired Take a break’ or something like that the signs say.
Council back handers I suspect. The closed Little Chef on the A34 Southbound has reopened to what appears to be a carbon copy of an L.C. Never seems to be busy though.
anyone remember the 24 hour lorry park with the portacabin cafe on there before they built the cherwell services.the parking was free and the food wernt too bad either.it was were the southbound exit slip is to junction 9 a43 
My parents moved from Reading to Wiltshire in 1969 and bought the White Horse cafe at Cherhill, about 3 miles east of Calne on the A4. In those days, the Downs section of the M4 was unfinished so everything heading west had to come off at Hungerford, pick up the A4, and then rejoin the M4 at Chippenham. The cafe was open 24/7 except for a few hours on a Sunday evening. It was always busy, mainly containers but also general freight. I recall seeing the lorry park full with F86s, F88s, Scania 110s and various old motors. Once the Downs section of the M4 opened, trade died overnight but the folks were fortunate enough to find someone to buy it and it remained open as a cafe for a few more years.
There were so many cafes along the A4 and all were decent places to eat. Starting in Newbury there was Jocks (?), then the Golden Arrow between Hungerford and Marlborough, the Silbury Hill cafe about a mile east of Beckhampton roundabout, our place at Cherhill, Hayle Farm cafe just down the road in Cherhill and one whose name escapes me in Box.
Plummersmate:
My parents moved from Reading to Wiltshire in 1969 and bought the White Horse cafe at Cherhill, about 3 miles east of Calne on the A4. In those days, the Downs section of the M4 was unfinished so everything heading west had to come off at Hungerford, pick up the A4, and then rejoin the M4 at Chippenham. The cafe was open 24/7 except for a few hours on a Sunday evening. It was always busy, mainly containers but also general freight. I recall seeing the lorry park full with F86s, F88s, Scania 110s and various old motors. Once the Downs section of the M4 opened, trade died overnight but the folks were fortunate enough to find someone to buy it and it remained open as a cafe for a few more years.There were so many cafes along the A4 and all were decent places to eat. Starting in Newbury there was Jocks (?), then the Golden Arrow between Hungerford and Marlborough, the Silbury Hill cafe about a mile east of Beckhampton roundabout, our place at Cherhill, Hayle Farm cafe just down the road in Cherhill and one whose name escapes me in Box.
The one by Silbury Hill was the Ridgeway. The Stoneage Ridgeway (now a green road much used by motor cyclists) came out beside it. There was an undiscovered ancient burial site opposite behind the lay by and wall. (As a child I often peed on it). Now all taken over by the National Trust with the cafe demolished long ago. Anyone remember the smell of paraffin and the little girl with the nickle rimmed glasses?
I mentioned a few weeks ago about a booklet I saw about old transport cafes, I have since bought it, it is from Kelsey Publishing in association with Classic and Vintage Commercials and the editor Ted Connolly has given me permission to reproduce the front cover and a couple of pages depicting business cards for old time bed and breakfast establishments for drivers, at £7. 95 I think it is value for money it is full of information mainly on long departed cafes and some still open today and has a stream of photo’s many black and white ones from the era of the café’s.
A lot of pages ( there are 100 pages altogether ) are filled with letters from drivers relating to their experience at the cafes and B & B regards prattman.
prattman:
I mentioned a few weeks ago about a booklet I saw about old transport cafes, I have since bought it, it is from Kelsey Publishing in association with Classic and Vintage Commercials and the editor Ted Connolly has given me permission to reproduce the front cover and a couple of pages depicting business cards for old time bed and breakfast establishments for drivers, at £7. 95 I think it is value for money it is full of information mainly on long departed cafes and some still open today and has a stream of photo’s many black and white ones from the era of the café’s.
A lot of pages ( there are 100 pages altogether ) are filled with letters from drivers relating to their experience at the cafes and B & B regards prattman.
There’s a few familiar names on there Prattman, I’ve got to laugh at the car park pay backs, when I was a kid going up I going up & down the road with drivers I used to get subsistence & claim the car park as well as the driver.
May have asked this before, but it is relevant now as I have a journey booked the week after next delivering a Labrador from the Charente to topside of Inverurie.
I will be arriving Newhaven at 8.30 in the morning and reckon (weather permitting) to overnight at Berwick on Tweed.
So, the question. Is Twempies still open as a first class evening dinner place just outside the docks there? And is parking still allowed in the docks itself?
It is over 14 years since I was last there. Margaret, the wife of a Reed Boardall(?) trunker, took it over from the previous owner who had become stressed out with it. It was opposite the dock gate but I later heard that she had bought and transferred to the funeral parlour across the road.
It would make my day if she or it was still going and that the standard was just as high.
Spardo:
May have asked this before, but it is relevant now as I have a journey booked the week after next delivering a Labrador from the Charente to topside of Inverurie.I will be arriving Newhaven at 8.30 in the morning and reckon (weather permitting) to overnight at Berwick on Tweed.
So, the question. Is Twempies still open as a first class evening dinner place just outside the docks there? And is parking still allowed in the docks itself?
It is over 14 years since I was last there. Margaret, the wife of a Reed Boardall(?) trunker, took it over from the previous owner who had become stressed out with it. It was opposite the dock gate but I later heard that she had bought and transferred to the funeral parlour across the road.
It would make my day if she or it was still going and that the standard was just as high.
hiya,
David if you type Twempies Berwick upon Tweed into Google, you’ll see the place listed
under cafes and tea rooms shown to be at Tweedmouth It’s a long time since I was up
that way so just hope the place is still trading.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
David if you type Twempies Berwick upon Tweed into Google, you’ll see the place listed
under cafes and tea rooms shown to be at Tweedmouth It’s a long time since I was up
that way so just hope the place is still trading.
thanks harry, long retired.
Thanks Harry, just tried the number but my French computerised person tells me that the number ‘is not attributed’. Shame that, but if not there I may be able to reach Edinburgh or just before for my first night.
Any other cafes open in the evenings on the A1? My poor old memory tells me there were a few, but not where they were 