Thought I’d restart this as the old thread had a lot of pictures on of mine that got lost somehow, sort’ve ruined the flow of it.
Anyone remember these firms and pits in the Cotswolds?
Multi Agg at Kempsford and Shellingford (taken over by Earthline)
Roger Constants, Ashton Keynes (now part of Hills).
Partridges (then Hoveringhams) Hardwick, near Witney. Now the BBOWT nature reserve.
Ameys Lechlade. Coln Gravel on the Fairford road closed recently, I saw the scrapman hauling the wash plant away about a week or two ago.
The Fullers’ earth pit near Uffington?
H. Tuckwells, Radley. Now part owned by Sheehans.
Huntsmans, Naunton. Now owned by Breedon.
Kingston Minerals, Lechlade, Hardwick and Whitehill near Burford.
From Cullimores website. Commer loading type 2 ballast under the screener.
Type 2 used to be used for subbase material and for oversights and trench fill but it seems to’ve fallen out of use these days.
Smiths work in partnership with Raymond Brown in selling incinerator ash based aggregate produced out of Ardley EFW plant.
Muckaway:
Thought I’d restart this as the old thread had a lot of pictures on of mine that got lost somehow, sort’ve ruined the flow of it.
Anyone remember these firms and pits in the Cotswolds?
Multi Agg at Kempsford and Shellingford (taken over by Earthline)
Roger Constants, Ashton Keynes (now part of Hills).
Partridges (then Hoveringhams) Hardwick, near Witney. Now the BBOWT nature reserve.
Ameys Lechlade. Coln Gravel on the Fairford road closed recently, I saw the scrapman hauling the wash plant away about a week or two ago.
The Fullers’ earth pit near Uffington?
H. Tuckwells, Radley. Now part owned by Sheehans.
Huntsmans, Naunton. Now owned by Breedon.
Kingston Minerals, Lechlade, Hardwick and Whitehill near Burford.
The Fullers earth pit nr Uffington - Brett Bentonite @ Baulking,latterly Laportes.
Multi agg . . whatever happened to Cliff Puffett?
Tf Coke ,Ashton Keynes.
I used to load out of the Baulking plant on Saturday mornings- set me up for my first drop of the week on Mondays. We used to do quite a bit of work from there, along with John Keelings but Cannon’s went in at a stupid price and pushed everyone else out.
Also delivered cement quite often to the Ashton Keynes quarry. And to Wickwar if you count that as “Cotswolds”.
The main customer that we supplied Type 2 to was British Rail Engineering based at Tamworth Nathan, they used it for trackside work but it was back in the early nineties since I last delivered any and that was alongside the main line near Foleshill, Coventry. Strange how some materials go out of favour.
Pete.
windrush:
The main customer that we supplied Type 2 to was British Rail Engineering based at Tamworth Nathan, they used it for trackside work but it was back in the early nineties since I last delivered any and that was alongside the main line near Foleshill, Coventry. Strange how some materials go out of favour.Pete.
I suppose the ballast is worth more to wash than as taw product. Smiths used to put sharp sand and 40mm in theirs to use up excess stock. Unthinkable now.
I’ve been to Huntsmans for 10 tonne of drive gravel in my tipper once ,think it was turn right in stow and down a steep hill ? . Green lorrys iirc .
Punchy Dan:
I’ve been to Huntsmans for 10 tonne of drive gravel in my tipper once ,think it was turn right in stow and down a steep hill ? . Green lorrys iirc .
Down the A429 to Bourton on Water from Stow, take the turn for Naunton (marked for Huntsmans).
Foden under the screener this time.
Taken over by Ameys, Witney Stone Co operated out of Quarry Road pit, Witney.
Publicity shot taken at Smiths Concretes’ pit at Hardwick near Witney c.1970. The plant is incomplete, missing the sand tower. Also missing is the blender belt, not sure if this was fitted much later. I remember the shingle blender ran at 4t per minute and us “proper drivers” 
would stand there with a watch and get the payload pretty much smack on. 3m 40 and my Foden 3000 was a tad under 16. Spot on. 
Angling enthusiasts will now know this place as Linear Fisheries.
Suedehead:
Multi agg . . whatever happened to Cliff Puffet?.
Google Cliff Puffet. Searches aren’t very complimentary.
instagram.com/p/7FbaTPyqZH/
The chimney aka “Smokey Joe” coming down at Shipton Quarry (Earthline, was the Blue Circle cement works)
One of the “Borrow” quarries used during the M40 construction.
Witney Stone Company workshops. Toshboy will confirm but I’m sure these workshops are Ameys at Wootton.
As sure as the sunrise, another Cullimore wagon under the ballast screener. An Albion this time.
A 4wheeler of a different kind at Wroxton, working for the Oxfordshire Ironstone Company. The OIC ran one of the best private quarry railway systems in the country, with manned crossings, signal boxes and even double track.
brc-stockbook.co.uk/1334.HTM
The surviving “6wheeler” from the Wroxton quarry railway.