dessert driver:
Hi boys
While your on the subject of merchants we used to deliver seed potatos from Ireland to a place in Leominster. If you came in from the north over the crossings round the sharp left, past the car park, round the sharp right and it was there on the left before the lights.I note it’s been gone a few years now, anyone remember the name?Regards Keith.
Hi Keith,
The name was Hintons,as you say long gone,used to run blue lorries,only a few.
Cheers Dave.
Hi boys
Dave don’t remember any trucks only that there was never any room to unload, used to have to put them on a elevator and they stacked them in the warehouse. come to think about it we used to deliver empty potato bags there as well.
Regards Keith
Hi boys
Thinking about Leominster does anyone remember the blacksmith over the crossing round the left bend on the left that had the job of repairing the iron railings along the A49 at Berrington Hall. It took him months,@1975/6.Even before he had finished someone had gone through them again a job like painting the Forth road bridge 
Also about that time in that area there used to be an old chap that walked up and down the main road in the village of Ashton, even 5/6 in a morning. I nearly had him a time or two often wonder if someone did get him. 
Regards Keith
Hi Keith,
I remember the blacksmith,there is somone running a business there now. About five years ago or maybe more there was a bad accident in Ashton,two lorries had a head on,one a milk artic tanker and a local artic that had just set off from Leominster had a head on,both burst into flames and the drivers sadly were both killed,it also burnt a cottage down.
I was coming through Bredenbury on my way back from Bromyard and I could see all this black smoke going up from there,thought it was a combine on fire or a farm fire,didn’t realise until I got to Leominster and saw the police blocking the A49 thay it was a smash.
Cheers Dave.
Saw this nice four wheeler Foden with a brick grab,on the A456 at Little Hereford.
Hi dave
I remember that I stopped in that layby just north a couple of weeks later and the road traffic investigators were there. They were hoping to get the road layout changed on that bad bend, there was even talk of a bypass but heard nothing since.
Regards Keith
Hi Keith,
They have got a 40 mph limit through there now,also some red traffic calming patches. There is one of those signs that lights up saying slow down as you approach from the Ludlow side into that bend,it’s always been a notorious blackspot,can’t see them getting a bypass,it’ all national trust ground on the Leominster side belonging to Berrington Hall the big place with the lake on the right hand side with the railings,the big parkland was designed by Capability Brown a famous landscape architect for the knobs years ago,in the 16th century.
Cheers Dave.
Northbound M5 approaching junction 5,turn off for Droitwich & Bromsgrove.
Dave the Renegade:
Hi Keith,
They have got a 40 mph limit through there now,also some red traffic calming patches. There is one of those signs that lights up saying slow down as you approach from the Ludlow side into that bend,it’s always been a notorious blackspot,can’t see them getting a bypass,it’ all national trust ground on the Leominster side belonging to Berrington Hall the big place with the lake on the right hand side with the railings,the big parkland was designed by Capability Brown a famous landscape architect for the knobs years ago,in the 16th century.
Cheers Dave.
Dave i used that road quite often and never seemed to have to much trouble with that bend we was carring bitumen stacked 3 pallets high
in them cardboard kegs 40 ft trailers. perhaps it was people not knowing the road.
Desert driver said it was a constant repair job. WELL i traveled a road Leek to Macc and i thought this chap was slow rebuilding this sandstone wall.
any howe i got to know him and he told me he’d nealy finished and it was flattened ages went by then he got the go ahead guess what■■? same thing
happened again he finnaly got it finished. 2 months later bang down it went again.Its got a big crash barrier on it now.
John
3300John:
Dave the Renegade:
Hi Keith,
They have got a 40 mph limit through there now,also some red traffic calming patches. There is one of those signs that lights up saying slow down as you approach from the Ludlow side into that bend,it’s always been a notorious blackspot,can’t see them getting a bypass,it’ all national trust ground on the Leominster side belonging to Berrington Hall the big place with the lake on the right hand side with the railings,the big parkland was designed by Capability Brown a famous landscape architect for the knobs years ago,in the 16th century.
Cheers Dave.Dave i used that road quite often and never seemed to have to much trouble with that bend we was carring bitumen stacked 3 pallets high
in them cardboard kegs 40 ft trailers. perhaps it was people not knowing the road.
Desert driver said it was a constant repair job. WELL i traveled a road Leek to Macc and i thought this chap was slow rebuilding this sandstone wall.
any howe i got to know him and he told me he’d nealy finished and it was flattened ages went by then he got the go ahead guess what■■? same thing
happened again he finnaly got it finished. 2 months later bang down it went again.Its got a big crash barrier on it now.
John
Hi John,
The two drivers involved in the smash at Ashton should have known the road,one was a local driver,the other with the milk tanker was from West Wales. I would think he was a trunker,so probably used the road regular,can’t remember what the inquest revealed,I think because they were so badly burnt,they couldn’t get anny evidence of any mechanical failure. It was a sad job.
Cheers Dave.
Daf artic seen on the A4103 at Leigh Sinton,near Worcester.
Dave the Renegade:
Northbound M5 approaching junction 5,turn off for Droitwich & Bromsgrove.
Hi Dave,is that cafe still open at that junction,the Wychbold? I used it regular in the 70s,it opened at 0700 and I was always first in the queue with an early start from Sheffield.
Chris Webb:
Dave the Renegade:
Northbound M5 approaching junction 5,turn off for Droitwich & Bromsgrove.
Hi Dave,is that cafe still open at that junction,the Wychbold? I used it regular in the 70s,it opened at 0700 and I was always first in the queue with an early start from Sheffield.
Hi Chris,
The cafe closed a few years ago,there is now a Beefeater pub and travelodge and a McDonalds on that site. There is a new transport cafe abot half a mile further up the road,just past Webb’s Garden Centre( any relation 
) called the Pitstop,it’s a good place,got several pics there about ten days ago. About two pages back on this thread,or it can be seen on the transport cafe web page.
Cheers Dave.
A nice Volvo FM seen on the A4103 at Withington near Hereford.
Dave the Renegade:
Chris Webb:
Dave the Renegade:
Northbound M5 approaching junction 5,turn off for Droitwich & Bromsgrove.
Hi Dave,is that cafe still open at that junction,the Wychbold? I used it regular in the 70s,it opened at 0700 and I was always first in the queue with an early start from Sheffield.
Hi Chris,
The cafe closed a few years ago,there is now a Beefeater pub and travelodge and a McDonalds on that site. There is a new transport cafe abot half a mile further up the road,just past Webb’s Garden Centre( any relation
Cheers Dave.
It could be a relation Dave,I’ve been all over the place when tramping I think Uniroyal or was it Scott-Bader had a place at Stoke Works near the Wychbold cafe,I went there once from Baglan with styrene.
One of big fleet operator A W Jenkinson seen on the A456 east of Little Hereford.
One of tonyb70’s mates,seen on the A456 near Woofferton,on the Shropshire/Herefordshire Border.
Dave the Renegade:
One of tonyb70’s mates,seen on the A456 near Woofferton,on the Shropshire/Herefordshire Border.
I wouldn’t go as far as mate dave,more of collegue,
regards
Tony
Scania six wheelar tipper with a clam bucket,seen on the A456 near Newnham Bridge on the Kidderminster Road.
One of BOC’s seen on the A443 at Eardiston,Worcestershire.
