Juddian:
Or taking North Circ then via Richmond Kingston Reigate to work your way down to Gatwick and the south coast west of Brighton.
I did that one on the other topic.Kew Bridge,Great Chertsey Road,Sunbury,Hampton Court,Esher,Tolworth,Reigate.No need to get involved with Kingston or Richmond that route. 
Trying to shift away from being dominated by London and the south east, I wish I could remember where the Wholesale Fruit and Veg Market was in Manchester. I recall regularly leaving the M6 just North of Knutsford and going through Altrincham, but thereafter my mind is a blank. I have a feeling the Market was somehere around Stretford or Trafford Park. I also clearly remember breaking down once on the way to the usual next drop which was in Cheadle or Cheadle Hulme and being towed into it which I think was Macfisheries.
Can anyone shed any light?
cav551 good shout now there is a place not as bad as LIVERPOOL,OR HULL,
It was off the old ASHTON ROAD you could not turn right in to the market off ASHTON RD so ,left into dalley road road the block[houses] cross ashton road in to Widnes street in to the market i thinkā¦ it will be no good asking any of the local drivers as they would never be in the market at the hours we all did,as with all markets very few local drivers [well distance drivers] would be on market work in their own areaā¦,how many LONDONERS ,DRIVERS DID YOU SEE IN ANY MARKETS DELIVERING NONEā¦
NIGHTS WORK, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD [DEPOT] samples to Sainsburys up from kings cross, STRATFORD,MARKET, SPITIFIELDS MARKET,BROUGH MARKET [unload your self on Sunday night ],NINE ELMS, HESTON MARKET ,then BRIGHTON MARKET then back to Northampton or close ā ā ? would imaging the rote would be the same as in the 1980s.
OR BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER THEN HULL[SLEEP]
OR SHEFFIELD ,[unload your self] LEEDS, MANCHESTER LIVERPOOL,YESi know it is off topic but they have no idea of the routes we used to have to take.
cav551:
A query on the prof forum interested me. How to get across London to a surrounding county? So on a stormy Sunday morning how did we get across various cities, or even to them 40, 50 or more years ago before the full Motorway network and traffic bans made them more or less obsolete? Iāve come up with half a dozen alternatives relevant today to the OPās query.viewtopic.php?f=2&t=163910#p2650991
To kick off for the 1970ās Iāll begin with another from Kent to the M1 Starting from the A2 Sun in the Sands which of course offerred an alternative over Blackheath.
M 102 A102 to Blackwall Tunnel (assuming height OK) under the river and A 102 Tunnel Approach to the M102 just north of the railway bridge at Bow. Off at Old Ford onto Wick rd alongside Victoria Park,1st right Brookfield rd to the lights. Left Wick rd/ Morning Lane to the lights and right onto Mare st. Then 50yds left at lights onto Graham rd, over lights and onto Dalston Lane, again Balls Pond rd/St Pauls rd and more sets of lights to Highbury Corner. 3rd exit A1 Holloway rd, over several lights and crossing over Seven Sisters rd to Archway r/a. Up A1 Archway/ā¦ Falloden Way to the North Circular cross over the Finchley rd and fork right at the lights to rejoin the A1 again Great North rd which ran onto the M1 just before Scratchwood Servicesā¦ and you were on your way.
I used the route from the Blackwall tunnel regularly in the seventies and eighties, up through Old Ford ( I think there was a low bridge here) via Bow and Balls Pond Road to Highbury Corner and Archway. I changed my job mid eighties and didnāt spend much time in the London area for quite a few years after that. In the Noughties I was an O/D. working for a shipping line, I needed to get to across from Holloway to Charlton so I thought yes, Highbury Corner, Balls Pond Road etc. to the Tunnel. Big mistake! I couldnāt remember the bloody route 
how I got to Charlton Iāll never know 
needless to say I didnāt try to do the same route in reverse.
. I dread to think of having to navigate around there now. Regards Kev.
