Great photos Duncan, Regards Larry.
Aye Bretts you must have taken this shot from the Copthorne , I stayed there one New Years Eve at a dinner dance & our room looked over to Bretts & in the night the reflection of their works looked like a ship on the waters of the Tyne, All great stuff M, do keep them rolling, I was chatting to a fellow just to-day Who claimed to have worked on the Tyne in a shipping firm, I thought when he said he had done this it would be good crack, Oh dear what a gob s///e he didn’t even remember Baxters, Jakey Adams, McPhees loading bacon etc, How sad can one get Eh, Regards Larry.
haha you certainly get them larry, wonder how long bretts been their now any ideas, tried to gets some pics of raines steel works as this was a regular job at freeways for many years ,
regards
mark
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haha you certainly get them larry, wonder how long bretts been their now any ideas, tried to gets some pics of raines steel works as this was a regular job at freeways for many years ,regards
mark
Aye Raines Delta works was it ? made railway lines of narrow gauge I believe for underground mining, Where has all the industry gone from the Tyne Eh, I can remember when there was a shortage of motors then, There was that much work about Drivers from the south could pick & choose their return load, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
marcus 22:
haha you certainly get them larry, wonder how long bretts been their now any ideas, tried to gets some pics of raines steel works as this was a regular job at freeways for many years ,regards
mark
Aye Raines Delta works was it ? made railway lines of narrow gauge I believe for underground mining, Where has all the industry gone from the Tyne Eh, I can remember when there was a shortage of motors then, There was that much work about Drivers from the south could pick & choose their return load, Regards Larry.
Talking of Bretts I think they started in the earley thirties, Regards Larry.
Theres another oil firm comes to mind Hensal, The made a gear oil called Amber Gear Oil it was thicker than bloody tar, It was very good for worm drive diffs, I used it in the first Foden 8 wheeler I had, They were taken over by Goodall Bates & Todd, AKA , G B Lubricants Albany Rd Gateshead, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Theres another oil firm comes to mind Hensal, The made a gear oil called Amber Gear Oil it was thicker than bloody tar, It was very good for worm drive diffs, I used it in the first Foden 8 wheeler I had, They were taken over by Goodall Bates & Todd, AKA , G B Lubricants Albany Rd Gateshead, Regards Larry.
Any one remember Allan in the yard, did’nt matter what time of day it was if you turned up he would go for a brake 
aye thats the one larry , just along from freeways yard wellington road, used to do the fish plates aswell for the rail tracks.
regards mark
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Richard minto with pilesdown on the tyne re-development project
PSML
Jakdaw:
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Richard minto with pilesPSML
Haha!!! Hope you had your cream Richie
Thanks for all the piccies, chaps. Takes me back to the '60s when Tyneside was one of my regular destinations.