I’ve been told Cassington pit is reopening (I thought that the plant would be knackered after several years of mothballing?) and that ballast will be imported from Lechlade. Lechlade has new reserves apparently.
Muckaway:
I’ve been told Cassington pit is reopening (I thought that the plant would be knackered after several years of mothballing?) and that ballast will be imported from Lechlade. Lechlade has new reserves apparently.
Talking Cassington , have they as yet got their new concrete plant or still waiting --toshboy
toshboy:
Muckaway:
I’ve been told Cassington pit is reopening (I thought that the plant would be knackered after several years of mothballing?) and that ballast will be imported from Lechlade. Lechlade has new reserves apparently.Talking Cassington , have they as yet got their new concrete plant or still waiting --toshboy
Still waiting I think mate. Smiths Concrete have bought a lot of new mixers, MANs (not popular) and Dafs.
Muckaway:
toshboy:
Muckaway:
I’ve been told Cassington pit is reopening (I thought that the plant would be knackered after several years of mothballing?) and that ballast will be imported from Lechlade. Lechlade has new reserves apparently.Talking Cassington , have they as yet got their new concrete plant or still waiting --toshboy
Still waiting I think mate. Smiths Concrete have bought a lot of new mixers, MANs (not popular) and Dafs.
They only get what they pay for , they pay 50% and Hanson the rest !!!
Hi Ivor
Not a lot has gone on on the post this year. How are you? hope you are well. Wishing you a happy new 2016.
David
davidcox:
Hi IvorNot a lot has gone on on the post this year. How are you? hope you are well. Wishing you a happy new 2016.
David
Hi David, time rolls by ,any news I get is that another has passed away ( recent Ron Ramsey, Dry Sandford Premix ),no more pcs in the loft etc! and nearly 45 years since the demise of Amey Group so its not surprising . Hope you are keeping well too, best wishes for 2016.
toshboy:
davidcox:
Hi IvorNot a lot has gone on on the post this year. How are you? hope you are well. Wishing you a happy new 2016.
David
Hi David, time rolls by ,any news I get is that another has passed away ( recent Ron Ramsey, Dry Sandford Premix ),no more pcs in the loft etc! and nearly 50 years since the demise of Amey Group so its not surprising . Hope you are keeping well too, best wishes for 2016.
I don’t keep in touch with anyone from Ameys, I left there early 70’s and went into other lines of work. My Father died several years back but we had a disagreement several years before that and we never spoke over that time, sad but there you are. I have more photos of my time at Amey but they are in my loft, we live in a bungalow and the loft access is in the kitchen and it makes a mess opening the hatch. I haven’t had cause to go up there so have not had the chance to retreive them.
Happy new year gents, for those that don’t know, Lechlade premix has closed and relocated to Stanton Harcourt. Stantons’ mothballed plant has been demolished.
I looked on the Raf Abingdon tribute site, which mentions a Whitley bomber crash near Great Park Farm during WW2. The crew died but the report does say Ron Amey and others tried to rescue them from the burning plane.
toshboy:
davidcox:
Hi IvorNot a lot has gone on on the post this year. How are you? hope you are well. Wishing you a happy new 2016.
David
Hi David, time rolls by ,any news I get is that another has passed away ( recent Ron Ramsey, Dry Sandford Premix ),no more pcs in the loft etc! and its 45 years since the demise of Amey Group so its not surprising . Hope you are keeping well too, best wishes for 2016.
Muckaway:
Happy new year gents, for those that don’t know, Lechlade premix has closed and relocated to Stanton Harcourt. Stantons’ mothballed plant has been demolished.
I looked on the Raf Abingdon tribute site, which mentions a Whitley bomber crash near Great Park Farm during WW2. The crew died but the report does say Ron Amey and others tried to rescue them from the burning plane.
Hi Nathan , Thanks for the update on Stanton etc ,where do the materials now come from then? There’s very few of us original" old guard " left now so any snippets are welcome . Ron Ameys house at Rowliegh was of course adjacent to Great Park . I follow your various contributions on T N threads still so i’ve got my eye on you !
Best wishes to you and your family for 2016 --toshboy
I think it’s shipped up from Appleford sidings, as far as I know Browns’ pit at Northmoor still hasn’t been reactivated. I think Coln Gravel at Lechlade has shut, only bagging is still there. The only gravel production at Stanton is Sheehans’ recycling plant in Smiths old tip.
Hi Ivan
Still haven’t ventured into the loft as yet!!! but I thought I would post something on her to keep the thread alive. Hope you are still well.
davidcox:
Hi Ivan
Still haven’t ventured into the loft as yet!!! but I thought I would post something on her to keep the thread alive. Hope you are still well.
Hi David yes , badly in need of a bump ,but keeping well ( 87 last week ) hope you are ok as well ,hav’nt come across any one recently- literally a dying breed i’m afraid . so please try that loft before its too late !-- regards ivor
Ivor
Glad you are well.
You have 20 years on me as I was just a lad in the 60s. I keep threatening to venture up there, trouble is that the hatch opens in the kitchen and every time we open it loads of crud falls out so Mrs Cox tries to stop me.
I worked for Amey’s at Clayton Pike Lechlade years ago ( late 60s ), there was a Conblock plant in the pit, at the time I was told Conblock belonged to Amey’s, but I have now been told it was owned by Mixconcrete, any of you old Amey lads know anything about this.
Definitely one for you Ivor.
altitude:
I worked for Amey’s at Clayton Pike Lechlade years ago ( late 60s ), there was a Conblock plant in the pit, at the time I was told Conblock belonged to Amey’s, but I have now been told it was owned by Mixconcrete, any of you old Amey lads know anything about this.
Hi John , a long time since we conversed, firstly is it you that i have seen around the Hills Tubney pit area in a bulker artic from the Swindon area ? if so a nice outfit and quite unlike the Amey stuff you drove light years ago.
Talking Tubney , to know that the pit adjoins Ron Ameys property -he would have known the large reserves under his house and yet objected to old appleton rd pit just up the road years ago , it would seem that the nimby in him lost out in the end so close to his grave just up the road.
No ,in a nutshell never by Mixcon, Conbloc started when Ron Amey bought a small outfit in Tidmarsh ,Pangbourne wayway back and moved block making into the Oxford area.
Conbloc was kept apart from the gravel division except from the materials input to some degree it had its own managing director and it grew rapidly like Premix and Agreggates, to many of the larger pits around the country.but Conbloc was fully in the group ,but had its separate HQ in west way Botley Oxford.
When the Amey Group was aquired by Goldfields , who later sold Amalgamated Roadstone then group companies lost their indentities and became ARC then Hanson and now something like idlebergers .
So in away Conbloc became Mixcon via Pioneer and Hanson eventually,but Amey and Mixcon in their day were fierce competitors in most of their products
Evening gents, a few things.
Hanson Heidelberg no longer own Conbloc; There was some English based buyout a year or two ago and has been branded as Forterra. Still running out of Sutton Courtenay.
Talking of concrete blocks, Sheehans are now in on the act; They’ve recently started producing eco-blocks at Yarnton using recycled aggregate.
Still no news whether Hanson are reopening Linch Hill quarry (aka Stonehenge Farm), but the reopened batch plant at Dix Pit is knocking out some serious meterages at the moment, a lot to the Westgate shopping centre in Oxford.
Hi Toshboy, yeah been a long time hope your well. thanks for clearing that up for me, there’s a guy on another lorry site, that wont have it that Conblock was anything to do with Amey.
Yeah that could have been me in Hills Tubney, I was working for a Swindon company, but living in Mid Wales, so the lorry was based down there. I had loads from there up to the Swindon area, then loaded out of Tubney some days to get me home again. Sadly no more had to pack it up due to health problems, 
on the scrap heap now, 
but there you go I was well past retiring age anyway. Thanks again for your help.
Cheers
John.