Last ones from me.Once again on Bob Hobbs website transportphotos.com/road/photos
City Farm Quarry, Eynsham: My late uncle Pete hauled as dug out of there for Sands and Gravels; It was one of several pits with no washing plant, just used for ballast for road bases. City Farm was a shallow dig by local standard, and it is currently being filled with muck by McKennas. Another ballast pit was at the old bomb dump along the eynsham straight, dug by Ameys.
oiltreader:
This is the bridge that George (BigG-Unit) built with the help of ARC.
A wee while back george told me he worked on the river bank foundations for this the Donnington bridge Oxford.
oiltreader
Wooow! Eddie, You make me sound sooooo! grand, like I built the bridge single handed! 
Actually the bridge was up when I worked on it, all I did was render up inside them block walls between the beams. 
Bloody freezing it was, laying on me back, nearly upside down! could only stick it for about an hour at a time! I went down there a few years back to show my two youngest and it has now been sealed up completely, so my handy work was all in vain! 
Earth cover at City Farm, also reclaiming Alkerton…
oiltreader
I stand corrected, but I thought Alkerton was worked by Oxfordshire Ironstone and then Bennies before landfilling? Another Amey ballast quarry was Brasenose, Hardwick, which might’ve been the one shown in Oiltreaders’ post. Brasenose is now the flyfishing club lake next to Linear Fisheries.
Muckaway:
I stand corrected, but I thought Alkerton was worked by Oxfordshire Ironstone and then Bennies before landfilling? Another Amey ballast quarry was Brasenose, Hardwick, which might’ve been the one shown in Oiltreaders’ post. Brasenose is now the flyfishing club lake next to Linear Fisheries.
Hi Muckaway. Oiltreaders recent wonderful offerings shows an ARC plant location " near Witney" do not recognise it .do you have any ideas??
Toshboy
toshboy:
Muckaway:
I stand corrected, but I thought Alkerton was worked by Oxfordshire Ironstone and then Bennies before landfilling? Another Amey ballast quarry was Brasenose, Hardwick, which might’ve been the one shown in Oiltreaders’ post. Brasenose is now the flyfishing club lake next to Linear Fisheries.Hi Muckaway. Oiltreaders recent wonderful offerings shows an ARC plant location " near Witney" do not recognise it .do you have any ideas??
Toshboy
I thought Brasenose: the plant looks basic and small and I cant think of one closer to Witney? Possibly Ducklington Pit (now Duck’ Lake) that was used during the construction of the Witney Bypass.
Muckaway:
toshboy:
Muckaway:
I stand corrected, but I thought Alkerton was worked by Oxfordshire Ironstone and then Bennies before landfilling? Another Amey ballast quarry was Brasenose, Hardwick, which might’ve been the one shown in Oiltreaders’ post. Brasenose is now the flyfishing club lake next to Linear Fisheries.Hi Muckaway. Oiltreaders recent wonderful offerings shows an ARC plant location " near Witney" do not recognise it .do you have any ideas??
ToshboyI thought Brasenose: the plant looks basic and small and I cant think of one closer to Witney? Possibly Ducklington Pit (now Duck’ Lake) that was used during the construction of the Witney Bypass.
Nathan ,probably right there. not a gravel plant but a large cap sgme split drum mixer ,would have been able to supply large qty of cbgm or lean mix or even PQ but that one could not load truckmixers–would have needed special side tippers for the concrete train feed if PQ – obviously an AMEY CONSTRUCTION set up and separate from the local ARC unit --i did think the stored material looked like limestone (PQ) anyway a long time ago now to verify our thoughts!—toshboy
Seeing the old D series under it; I’ve heard a tale there’s an old lorry at the bottom of Duck’ Lake
I worked at A R C Borough Green in the late 80s early 90s driving FL10
with bulk rubbish ejector trailer running from Kingston and Sutton back to
B Green all the vehicles were in ARC colours then later sprayed cream and liveried
Greenways will try to get some pictures posted.
Hardwick.
oiltrader
Amey tarburner working on Headley Way Headington also another burner having gas tank fitted.
oiltreader
Amey motorway work M27 also Heathrow(guess) resurfacing.
oiltreader
A few shots of the M40 construction.
oiltreader
I’ll stick these excellent examples in here.
fredm:
oiltreader:
Some more.
oiltreadergreat pics mate imagine driving an A type petrol bedford on a lowloader bit of a struggle hey happy days ate, fredm
The trailer pulled by both Bedfords was the trailer I used to pull with my ergo cab Leyland Comet in the very early 70s.
The trailer on the old Foden was later pulled by an S20 foden 4 wheeler unit reg No VRX 110 at the same time driven by Trevor Bennet.
Funny how I can remember these numbers but have a job remembering my present car!
Two days without a picture, so here is Conbloc making, not very exciting but part of this thread.
oiltreader
Couple of photos being used in the campaign against gravel digging in Oxfordshire, not sure where the conveyor belt setup is maybe Stonehenge Farm, the other is near Witney.
oiltreader
