There was a Lorry park in Tiverton Devon about ten minutes walk from the town center. Growing up there as a truck mad young fella I used to go down there most nights in summer with my camera,there were lots of locals who used it with quite a few distance wagons each night. Reading the names and places on the side of those wagons taught me far more than i learnt at school.
Sadly it’s all gone now,yep another Tescos…
Ste46:
Richard J:
Wasn’t there a truck park in Bristol, down by where the SS Great Britain now resides? If you weren’t out early they used to put up a market and you were stuck?Temple Meads, was it?
Cannons Marsh - opposite side of the docks, where the Lloyds bank offices and Sealife Centre now stand.
Steve
Cannons Marsh…of course, that’s the one. Haven’t been down that way for many a year…used to be a regular stop for me.
Thanks Steve, much appreciated.
stopped in higham ferrers bout 1988,me and another driver parked on the public car park not much there but remember the bangin head next morning
Northampton had several lorry parks. There was the big one on the cattle market, one near a “sausage” café off London Road, the Four Fishes had parking, and at least one other in the Spencer Bridge Road area.
Canterbury on the Longport coach park. Folkestone had two; one up the town, the other by the harbour.
Maidstone already mentioned. Herne Bay. Tunbridge Wells.
Littlehampton coach park , Lancaster town centre, Brecon town centre,Poole harbour,always handy for a walk to the pub and chippy
Guildford had an unofficial lorry park, quite close to the cathedral, if my aging memory serves me correctly…five minutes walk to the chippy, but nowhere to get a wash and brush up.
Weymouth had a decent park, alongside the river…all the facilities a driver could ever wish for were within a ten minute walk.
There was also a good parking area in the dock area at Lerwick, on Shetland. First place I ever experienced the delights (?) of haggis…
axletramp:
Northampton had several lorry parks. There was the big one on the cattle market, one near a “sausage” café off London Road, the Four Fishes had parking, and at least one other in the Spencer Bridge Road area.
1980 ish, used to park on the 4 Fishes park Northampton (later super sausage) met a lad there every Thursday for weeks from Bradford area, John afai recall ex. bus driver, in an orange Ford D rigid with sideboards (the Ford not the lad 
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I had a rigid TK…wasn’t you was it ?
We used to hit the town every week and had some bloody good nights there, I had membership of a club there called The Opus 2. Never saw him again.
Newcastle under Lyme cattle market on edge of town centre. some good pubs round there.
Morecambe, 2 parks, market place and Winter gardens, good nights on The Pier disco.
Blackpool next to football ground, used to start in the Tangerine Club.
London area…Aldgate as metioned, The Ramp Bishopgate, and Sheperds Bush next to BBC studios.
Merthyr Tydfil up from The Miners Club.
Birmingham…under The Bull Ring.
Guildford next to railway line somewhere.
Aberdeen on riverside across bridge from Torry now a dual c.way
Arbroath by the harbour
And many more I can not think of in the days when drivers spoke to each other, and socialised, and did not look on the job as a work/sleep endurance test
Richard J:
Ste46:
Richard J:
Wasn’t there a truck park in Bristol, down by where the SS Great Britain now resides? If you weren’t out early they used to put up a market and you were stuck?Temple Meads, was it?
Cannons Marsh - opposite side of the docks, where the Lloyds bank offices and Sealife Centre now stand.
Steve
Cannons Marsh…of course, that’s the one. Haven’t been down that way for many a year…used to be a regular stop for me.
Thanks Steve, much appreciated.
There was a Formula 1 themed disco bar near there with oil drums for seats and tables, and a floating bar boat joby.
Anybody??
Luton lorry park was near the town centre but I don’t think that there were any washing or toilet facilities there. It was handy if you were tipping at Vauxhall’s motors or if you could get out of London before the rush hour started in The Smoke.
Birmingham, Masshouse on Saint Mary’s Road lorry park was in walking distance to The Bull Ring, there was a great café just around the corner and two pubs close by, The Woodman and The Railway. One of them was run by a big Irish fellow called Ray who had about five daughters and if you wanted a sandwich (we only have ham or cheese) it was always made with thick toasting bread slices. The Woodman, I think was opposite the railways goods yard or it could of been a fruit and vegetable merchants.
The lorry park was underneath a fly over and not far away was an old Victorian style corporation wash house, I can’t remember there being a swimming pool in there but you could pay to have a wash or get what they called a Slipper Bath.
I remember being parked up there on the 21st November 1974 when two pubs that some of the drivers used to use were blown up by the I.R.A. We never heard the explosion while we were sat in The Woodman but the emergency vehicle siren’s could be heard coming and going all night. 
robroy:
Richard J:
Ste46:
Richard J:
Wasn’t there a truck park in Bristol, down by where the SS Great Britain now resides? If you weren’t out early they used to put up a market and you were stuck?Temple Meads, was it?
Cannons Marsh - opposite side of the docks, where the Lloyds bank offices and Sealife Centre now stand.
Steve
Cannons Marsh…of course, that’s the one. Haven’t been down that way for many a year…used to be a regular stop for me.
Thanks Steve, much appreciated.
There was a Formula 1 themed disco bar near there with oil drums for seats and tables, and a floating bar boat joby.
Anybody??
This one I put it on clubs dances and pubs not long ago there’s another two on there. Les.
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just a thought loanhead miners club used to park just along at a carpark (turn o the 80s)…was always allowed in . a memory that sticks in my head new toilet block in the carpark it was spotless when I used it ,had just opened that morning ,went the following morning and it was totally destroyed wasn’t two pieces of porcelain together wae water pouring out the door. aaaaalso iirc Dorchester was a good night out carpark in town able to get a wash and I remember a bar that had a stripper ■■■ barmaid that did a turn on a 
table wae a Geordie driver. lol the things ye remember from the past.
The North West boys will fill the gaps here but I remember the Car / lorry park in Penrith which was very convenient for a couple of very friendly pubs of a Sunday night,
Penrith was a legal day - well as legal as any hand written log book was in those happy days - from Moretonhampstead and it was a nice run the next day to Glasgow. Happy days indeed.
David
Still got ours in Buxton by the viaduct .It only holds about 10artics but it’s only two minutes walk to the railway hotel not dear and the student flats are behind it , plenty of eye candy . KFC just up the road if that’s you’re taste .l
rigsby:
Still got ours in Buxton by the viaduct .It only holds about 10artics but it’s only two minutes walk to the railway hotel not dear and the student flats are behind it , plenty of eye candy . KFC just up the road if that’s you’re taste .l
Lol never saw any candy in Buxton rigers , mind you only time I stayed over was in a room with no view if you know where I mean !
Punchy Dan:
rigsby:
Still got ours in Buxton by the viaduct .It only holds about 10artics but it’s only two minutes walk to the railway hotel not dear and the student flats are behind it , plenty of eye candy . KFC just up the road if that’s you’re taste .lLol never saw any candy in Buxton rigers , mind you only time I stayed over was in a room with no view if you know where I mean !
A Police Cell possibly ? Anon1.
I used to stop in Ledbury when going to the hop board, the lorry park was on the cattle market which was only a short walkon the opposite side of the road from the Seven Stars (below). Always a good night with Jinks behind the bar, but since it overlooked the main road the lorries rumbling through at 4am didn’t give you really enough time to recover from the previous evening’s libations.
Bewick:
When I was a humble O/D I used to park my D1000 regularly in the centre lorry park in Aldgate , well it was used as a car park during the day and lorries/motors at night. Its just one massive sky scraper now, I wonder if the Long Bar and the Red Lion are still there? Cheers Bewick.
I remember that well. Couple of good eateries there too. The trucks wanting to be away first had to wait in the road before being reversed in last of all.
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The romantically named Gas House Lane just off Rochester High Street, not sure if that was a lorry park or if only stayed there after loading timber on the wharf? There was a boat converted into a bar/pub there too I think.
Spent a few nights in Dorking. Seem to remember the Lorry Park was behind a cinema or theatre? Saw an Austrian Steyr wagonndrag there one winter, he had snapped a half shaft and was waiting for a colleague to bring one out to him.
Many a night in Coalville. Load kerbs in Charcon and run into the town for the night. Biggish free parking near the bus depot. We sometimes used the bus-mans canteen, or went to a sit-down chippie. Loads of friendly pubs within a short walk of the lorries. Couple of beers and an early night before a 5 oclock start. Cooked breakfast on the way down in the morn before hand balling off the kerbs on site, or the luxury of a fork tip at a depot!
Gas House rd is still there, but now a coach park.
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I always made for Derby after loading kerbs & flags from Hulland Ward. I don’t recall many turns off the A52 before you came to the lorry park in the town. The digs were overlooking the lorries. But where was this?