Chris Webb:
“Jock’s Lodge” on A1 going into Edinburgh.
And the Devils Beef Tub on the A701 near Moffat.
Chris Webb:
And the Devils Beef Tub on the A701 near Moffat.
sounds decidedly rude, like slang for a ladies’ unmentionable 
sorry 
jj72:
Chris Webb:
And the Devils Beef Tub on the A701 near Moffat.sounds decidedly rude, like slang for a ladies’ unmentionable
Don’t mention it. 
Happy Keith:
tortoise:
‘… Ace Cafe…’Not far from the Flying Lady?
…but what’s with ‘Simister Island’ that traffic Doris’s rattle on about? Northern dirt track stuff perhaps?
Many a true word is spoken in jest Happy Keith as in the early seventies the suspension on my left hand drive 1968 V.W. Varient estate car went kaput on the dirt section of Simister Lane and my pride and joy was never mobile again 
. Simister Island is or was the junction of The M 62 and The M 60 
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HI Chris, it must be a nightmare if you ever meet two stuttering Dronfield men, Dah den dee dee dah dah dah dah dee dah ow a tha 
. You could just imagine the cypher bods at Fylingdales declaring a high alert status until they had worked that one out.
Hi Bullit, I remember your wife’s Uncle Stanley once telling me about when he had loaded near Sheffield one very hot summers day. It had taken more than a couple of hours to handball the load on and as Stan said he was sweating like a pig. The young lad from the factory who was helping him asked " ave ya got a laver, favver " ?.
I am sure that Chris knew what he meant .
Can’t anybody remember The Compass Roundabout on the A 27 near Portsmouth in the sixties or did I imagine it 
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Mushroomman wrote
HI Chris, it must be a nightmare if you ever meet two stuttering Dronfield men, Dah den dee dee dah dah dah dah dee dah ow a tha . You could just imagine the cypher bods at Fylingdales declaring a high alert status until they had worked that one out.
Chris Webb wrote
What’s tha mean Morse bloody Code?
Case proven Mlud 
G8YMW:
Mushroomman wrote
HI Chris, it must be a nightmare if you ever meet two stuttering Dronfield men, Dah den dee dee dah dah dah dah dee dah ow a thaChris Webb wrote
What’s tha mean Morse bloody Code?
Case proven Mlud
Aye,alrayt then,I giv up.They call me t’dee dah in t’IOM and reckon they can’t tell what I’m saying - and that’s from Scots and Irish as well as Manx - who I thought were all scousers when I first came here.
Like in Scotland - “He’s away for his piece” and “have yer got yer lines” and “shut yer puss”. and the well known “GTF”
Anyroad,must gerroff,I’ve got a lathu on fathu,clearin’ this snow.
Dunno then?:
jessicas dad:
what about the hill’sloughboro bank
windy hill … which side of the M62
barnsley bankalso watford gap, nowhere near watford and not even a gap.
I t is in fact near Watford village in Northants.
And it is a gap! Where the trains,canals and roads follow the geology.
Beat me to it 
Does anybody remember the old tonys cafe on top off the hill going out off grantham,he got refused planning permission to build on the new grantham bypass he got permission after drivers campained for him he built is new cafe and after a short while sold out to trust house fortes theres thanks for you.
I heard a driver giving directions, he told the guy to go down the M1 and get off at the chimneys !
He meant of course J13 where the chimneys of London brickworks stood about 30yrs ago 
I had visions of the poor bloke getting to staples corner still looking for some chimneys
Trev_H:
I heard a driver giving directions, he told the guy to go down the M1 and get off at the chimneys !
He meant of course J13 where the chimneys of London brickworks stood about 30yrs ago
I had visions of the poor bloke getting to staples corner still looking for some chimneys
well, good job he wasn’t the top side of Nottinhgam then, there is the Watnall Brickwork chimneys there just top side of J26
a30 fraddon cormwall big hill known as hamburger hill
road from yeovil to dorchester big hill known as clay pigeon there must be hundreds ive heard over the years cant think now but if someone one i hadnt heard in awhile usaully recall straight away
What about the spider island in Derby?
Some parts of the country have a name for every round-about with a name plate on each one. I’ve always thought that’s most useful.
Here’s one that always intrigues me, more a local name than a truckers name though:
Barnoldswick (home of Silent Night mattresses not so far from Burnley) gets called Barlek or Barlick.
Delivering to farms is the worst.
Most Farmers expect you to have the same local knowledge as them, and it’s not just the ;
Turn left at the dog and gun, past Jack’s old place, and just round the corner from standing meadows
er… Excuse me mate, I live near Darlington, I haven’t got a clue where any of these places are, and you be a bit more specific? and they make it sound like I’m the idiot, for mot knowing
jeffreyk:
Does anybody remember the old tonys cafe on top off the hill going out off grantham,he got refused planning permission to build on the new grantham bypass he got permission after drivers campained for him he built is new cafe and after a short while sold out to trust house fortes theres thanks for you.
Is that the one we used to call towers ?
How about the hole in the wall or the woodshed for anybody who used to go up the old A74 before it was upgraded to motorway? There was a motorway documentary a few years ago & one of them was about building the M62 by scammonden (excuse spelling) dam, and interviewed the daughter of the farmer who owned the little house on the prairie, the motorway split because the land was far too boggy in the middle, as said the farm was saved.
It’s all true abart t’sheffield accent innit?
DEH DOO DOO DOH DUNT DEH?
dishforth polo…when i was a trainee driver…now long gone. the polo not me
Anyone remember the Monkey Jump Cafe, now a mc donalds?