Carl there is also a shop in the Grainger Market in the TOON, they have a bit of old gear that might be of interest to you, All the best for Xmas & New Year, Regards Larry.
Carl Williams:
What’s happened to Christmas?
I went Christmas shopping this afternoon (early for me like to go 24th about 2.00Pm but now I can’t drive had to go earlier.) Went to Darlington, but what has happened to the toy shops, they’ve all gone. Went to Binns expecting to see Santa Clause and no toy department. In the market there was a stall used to sell some decent cars and busses.-gone.
I got my grandchildren the rubbish Alexis said they wanted (Thomas the tank engine for one and Turtles for the other), but I like to see toy shops when I can find toys I would like, and then buy them.
When I was about 8-10 dad used to park near Garden Street and my enjoyment started by looking at Hayward and Robertson’s vans and then there was always new Dinky toys I wanted and loved. Even when Paul was young I could still buy Corgi toys. They made some excellent Bedford O model vans. Also I remember buying him a Brittain cattle truck. It was a Leyland Redline either Boxer or Mastiff. It was so lifelike it soon broke and Paul still enjoyed playing with it, explaining in his small way that it was in his scrap yard. (The best place for Leyland vehicles).
Now today everything is plastic rubbish that bears no resemblance to a proper wagon or car. All I want is to buy toys that I would like to have played with, and put my grandchildren on the straight and narrow appreciating proper vehicles.
Hi, There is a “traditional” toy shop in Darlington but is on West Auckland Road. Probably too late for Christmas but according to their website do sell Corgi, Mamod, Scalextric toys as well as construction and action toys. Haven’t been so don’t know if they’ll have what you are looking for. The link for their website is lambstoys.co.uk hope this is helpful.
Once again wishing all readers and contributors a good Christmas and happy, peaceful New Year.
Peter.
Hi Ange,Larry, and Peter
Thank god Newcastle still has Fenwick and the Grainger Market, I like them both,and Bainbridge, now John Lewis sell ‘pocket money toys’, but I was in darlington, wich used to be one of the main market towns in our area, and is 35 mies from Newcaste. I know Peter, there is Lambs toy shop at cockerton but it is a mile or more from the centre of the town and I had travelled on the train and aready walked from Bank Top Station. What I was meaning that its sad that all the small toy shops had gone from the town centre, and todays children have to play with the type of toys sold by Argos etc. Today’s young boys are deprived of the opportunity of playing with model wagons and cars like Dinky Toys. In my youth I would see a foden 8 wheeler, or a ‘Chivers jam van’ and long for the day till I got one which usually wasn’t long because dad spoiled me. I would like my grandchildren to have that opportunity, but when I think about it today, all they would be offered is plain white wagons with green stickers on with Eddie Stobbart plastered on it. Sadlly there are no indivduals anymore.
Merry Christmas
carl
Night shift Bri put these on Old North East Hauliers thread. Here’s some pics from rallies from years ago. They were scanned from slides taken by the late Harry Robinson. So for the sake of completness he as kindly allowed me to put them on here.
As we approach 2013 here is a memory from the past.
In recent posts I mentioned our relationship with Adams and Gibbon as our main parts supplier. Adams and Gibbon in my youth were an integral part of the North East of England with branches in most towns. I was surprised I could find very little on the Internet and was saddened that they so easily had fallen into oblivium.
I found this photo which I hope will interest many. Anyone know which branch and were and roughly when this photo was taken?
I think it may be the Sunderland depot which was in Paley Street beside the Empire Theatre. Here’s an old advert for them.
Thats a blast from the past Bri, I remember A & Gs as my first wagon I drove for Baxters was a Bedford 4 wheeler TVK 123, I used to run Manchester reguler & remember their depoat Huddersfield on the left just before the Huddersfield Football ground, happy days Eh, Regards Larry.
Carl Williams:
As we approach 2013 here is a memory from the past.In recent posts I mentioned our relationship with Adams and Gibbon as our main parts supplier. Adams and Gibbon in my youth were an integral part of the North East of England with branches in most towns. I was surprised I could find very little on the Internet and was saddened that they so easily had fallen into oblivium.
I found this photo which I hope will interest many. Anyone know which branch and were and roughly when this photo was taken?
Carl looking at the reg on the Bedford van It looks like KBB, If this is correct the year would be late 40s early 50s, The O model & the Duple bodied coach would be about right too, ■■?, Regards Larry.
hi carl, the photo of A&G is the dunn st depot newcastle, there is a low bridge at the top of dunn st, high vehicle’s had to use skinnerburn rd to gain access to A&G,now just wast ground, bumper
Carl Williams:
As we approach 2013 here is a memory from the past.In recent posts I mentioned our relationship with Adams and Gibbon as our main parts supplier. Adams and Gibbon in my youth were an integral part of the North East of England with branches in most towns. I was surprised I could find very little on the Internet and was saddened that they so easily had fallen into oblivium.
I found this photo which I hope will interest many. Anyone know which branch and were and roughly when this photo was taken?
Now flattened
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A&G picture is surely Dunn Street Newcastle. Spent many an hour in there in the 50’s / 60’s during the school holidays with my Dad. Waiting in the queue up the stairs for the parts dept.
Aye, Remember you had to get a number out of a box on the wall so as to keep your turn waiting to be served, & havin to sit on their bloody hard wooden forms freezing cold in the winter, And of course dont forget the pheasant pluckers behind the counter, What a misserable lot they were, Happy days long gone Eh, Regards Larry.
When I first looked at the photo I thought Sunderland but then looking at the top saw there was no Sunderland Empire, then I thought it’s Dunn street Newcastle
On the day I passed my test I was sent straight away to Clayton Street Durham, and went there almost every day when I was in Spennymoor. (I was still at school at the time at Durham)
Very rarely did they not have the parts or have them transferred to Durham, but on one occasion I remember having to go to Sunderand. Then after they built the new branch at Hebburn Gardens Felling, which was much bigger I went there several times, but never whilst I drove did I go to Newcastle branch. However Durham was just opened in the mid fifties and before that time we used Sherwoods at Grange Road Darlington or A & G Dunn Street Newcastle.
I remember being told they used both A & G and Sherwoods for engine reconditioning in the pre war bedfords, and in the back of my mind I remember going with dad, must have been about four or five to see how they were getting on with on at Dunn street, and they seem to have been working outside on the street.
I remember dad saying that picking a van up after engine reconditioning from Adams and Gibbons sounded like a bag of hammers and Sherwoods sounded as smooth as silk. When I look at that photo now I think ‘wasn’t the property run down for a main dealership’?
Lawrence Dunbar:
Carl Williams:
As we approach 2013 here is a memory from the past.In recent posts I mentioned our relationship with Adams and Gibbon as our main parts supplier. Adams and Gibbon in my youth were an integral part of the North East of England with branches in most towns. I was surprised I could find very little on the Internet and was saddened that they so easily had fallen into oblivium.
I found this photo which I hope will interest many. Anyone know which branch and were and roughly when this photo was taken?
Carl looking at the reg on the Bedford van It looks like KBB, If this is correct the year would be late 40s early 50s, The O model & the Duple bodied coach would be about right too, ■■?, Regards Larry.
KBB…would this not be a newcastle reg.
Eddie
Lawrence Dunbar:
Thats a blast from the past Bri, I remember A & Gs as my first wagon I drove for Baxters was a Bedford 4 wheeler TVK 123, I used to run Manchester reguler & remember their depoat Huddersfield on the left just before the Huddersfield Football ground, happy days Eh, Regards Larry.
Hi Larry…Huddesfield Football Stadium…that is a blast from my past, the times I had past that and was it Hansons on the other side.
Eddie
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Lawrence Dunbar:
Thats a blast from the past Bri, I remember A & Gs as my first wagon I drove for Baxters was a Bedford 4 wheeler TVK 123, I used to run Manchester reguler & remember their depoat Huddersfield on the left just before the Huddersfield Football ground, happy days Eh, Regards Larry.Hi Larry…Huddesfield Football Stadium…that is a blast from my past, the times I had past that and was it Hansons on the other side.
Eddie
Yes Hansons was opposite, I think its now Hoyners the tanker firms depot, And of course not to forget the smelly Gasworks a bit futher along past the Football Stadium, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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Lawrence Dunbar:
Thats a blast from the past Bri, I remember A & Gs as my first wagon I drove for Baxters was a Bedford 4 wheeler TVK 123, I used to run Manchester reguler & remember their depoat Huddersfield on the left just before the Huddersfield Football ground, happy days Eh, Regards Larry.Hi Larry…Huddesfield Football Stadium…that is a blast from my past, the times I had past that and was it Hansons on the other side.
EddieYes Hansons was opposite, I think its now Hoyners the tanker firms depot, And of course not to forget the smelly Gasworks a bit futher along past the Football Stadium, Regards Larry.
Hi Larry and Eddie
ICI huddesfield was also just along the road on the same side as A & G.
I remember going there with dad, when I was 7 or 8 and they woud not let me go with him into the site (Health and safety in 1955?) Dad had a load of drums on from Aycliffe Drums and Kegs and I had to wait in the security gate. I remember being terrified that the place might explode and I never would see him again.
Over the years I travelled many times both as a passenger (In my youth) and a driver and always thought it was such a misserable place, always raining.
Carl
Aye & the factory next to it on the main road with the clock Reynolds I think it was called it was handy when running at night you could stop for a kip & the struck every hour so you didnt sleep in, Regards Larry.
Dont know if you have seen it Carl but robroy has put a nice photo of one of your Marsdens on page 379 of the scrapbook thread.VUP812L fleet no 4. and also a Ford D series artic.
Stanfield:
Dont know if you have seen it Carl but robroy has put a nice photo of one of your Marsdens on page 379 of the scrapbook thread.VUP812L fleet no 4. and also a Ford D series artic.
Hi Thanks John
I have the orriginal photos which were both taken at Marsden’s when we collected the Seddon and the 40 ft single axle trailer with the new D800 tractor unit, ad put a copy on this thread a couple of months ago. Thank you very much for telling me, and I keep living in the hope that more new photos turn up
hope you have a good new year
carl