Hope,Kirkbride
hodgeturbo:
Oneil,Aspatria
When did Squeak sell out Paul? He had a good Marra from Milnthorpe called Ted Johnston who drove for the Paper Mill and I believe they got friendly when they both used to run up and down to Bristol,Squeak with re-conditioned Marchon drums and Ted with paper they stayed in Les Cook’s digs at Stone on the A38 regular.Squeak also used to come down to Milnthorpe on a weekend sometimes and I believe they got a fair bit of drink at a la’l local boozer and also at Holme WMC. 
Cheers Dennis.
truckfing:
dew:
Anyone got any pics of the mint 143 doing logging work round these parts lately? Think it’s about an N reg, dark green.Gorgeous looking but I never see it stood still!
Is this it?
Got it in one, nice shot!
Bewick:
hodgeturbo:
Oneil,AspatriaWhen did Squeak sell out Paul? He had a good Marra from Milnthorpe called Ted Johnston who drove for the Paper Mill and I believe they got friendly when they both used to run up and down to Bristol,Squeak with re-conditioned Marchon drums and Ted with paper they stayed in Les Cook’s digs at Stone on the A38 regular.Squeak also used to come down to Milnthorpe on a weekend sometimes and I believe they got a fair bit of drink at a la’l local boozer and also at Holme WMC.
im not sure dennis,but I will ask Duncan Clark dunc thinks early 90s when squeak sold up heres his 142 with john irving stickers on the doors.
Seeing 'as Hodge has abandoned the thread I will stick this early 90’s S.■■■■■■■■ shot on taken at Lakeside,Windermere, of the Hudson Engineers crane driver the late Tom Grindey off loading a replica Viking Longship onto the Lake off a Bewick artic which had brought it from Bristol dock the day before.
Tut tut Dennis ,must try harder with the masking tape on that trailer .
Dan Punchard:
Tut tut Dennis ,must try harder with the masking tape on that trailer .
Eh! ? they are vinyl letters Dan,actually now you have mentioned it this trailer was off J & J Makins own fleet which I bought out in 1995 and it was a Crane Fruehauf tandem chassis fitted with ----wait for it---- a Fleetloader Curtainsider body ( Or some other kind of crappy body from a Rochdale/Olham body bulider that the Makin Transport manager had been “bribed” to buy ) We parked it up after we took the Makin fleet over but on closer inspection it transpired that this trailer had done very,very little work.The Body was a bag of ■■■■ but the platform and chassis were “mint” Fruehauf so we butchered the body off it and our welder fitted a headboard from a number we had lying about off TASK trailers we had sent to Bo-Alloy for conversion and then I had it sand blasted,painted,tyred and MOT’d and hey presto we had what was a virtual new tandem axle flat to which I allocated an old fleet no. 37 and this job was the first outing it had when I rode “shot gun” with one of our Star men the late Jim Varney down to Bristol to collect this Long Ship for return to Lake Windermere.Cheers Dennis.
Err ,I was meaning that someone had painted over the electric sockets and air connections rather than remove or mask up ,■■■■ I know but some things just have to be done !
Dan Punchard:
Err ,I was meaning that someone had painted over the electric sockets and air connections rather than remove or mask up ,■■■■ I know but some things just have to be done !
but they still worked Dan Time to go Dennis.
hodgeturbo:
Bewick:
hodgeturbo:
Oneil,AspatriaWhen did Squeak sell out Paul? He had a good Marra from Milnthorpe called Ted Johnston who drove for the Paper Mill and I believe they got friendly when they both used to run up and down to Bristol,Squeak with re-conditioned Marchon drums and Ted with paper they stayed in Les Cook’s digs at Stone on the A38 regular.Squeak also used to come down to Milnthorpe on a weekend sometimes and I believe they got a fair bit of drink at a la’l local boozer and also at Holme WMC.
im not sure dennis,but I will ask Duncan Clark dunc thinks early 90s when squeak sold up heres his 142 with john irving stickers on the doors.
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Bewick:
Seeing 'as Hodge has abandoned the thread I will stick this early 90’s S.■■■■■■■■ shot on taken at Lakeside,Windermere, of the Hudson Engineers crane driver the late Tom Grindey off loading a replica Viking Longship onto the Lake off a Bewick artic which had brought it from Bristol dock the day before.
I’m back dennis busy busy at the moment weve been doing nights resurfacing the M74 at gretna
Nee problem Marra eh! glad to hear your busy,as the old saying goes you have to “mek hay w’ilt sun shines” or in your case Paul “went moon shines” Cheers Dennis.
Noo Dennis, Thoo wad hev nee problem talking to them Vikings in that langship neither would any of us ■■■■■■■■■ cos we all hev Viking blood in oor veins, did thoo hev a “whip roond” wid a proper whip to mek them oarsman work harder and mek it ga faster.
Here is a photo of a new langship being built in Roskilde, Denmark when I visited in 2003.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Great shot there L600 of the Longship in build,but it looks a tad too lang for our 40 ft flat (probably an RWB job eh!) I recall hearing Richard Madely telling a tale about when he was setting out on his career he must have lived in Ireby for a while? when he was on Radio Carlisle and this particular night he was in the Sun Inn (I think it was) with some Norwegian friends who were stopping with him.Well they were just about ready to go when in comes a couple of local farmers (you would probably ken them!) and their dialect (craic to thee and me) had these Norwegians stop dead in their tracks because they were listening almost to their own language and they could pick out many words that would have passed for nearly Norwegian.I know,I know,there are are a lot of funny buggers living aboot Ireby !Cheers Bewick.
I can believe it Dennis.
Accents and language have always interested me, after finding that my schoolboy French actually worked in France! To the point of trying to understand the Russian Cyrillic in the Eastern Bloc and also Arabic, handily with a translation above on the road signs in Saudi!
I have a friend in the IOM and I think there is a huge Scandinavian influence there too.
looks like immigration has been a long standing problem in this country! Part of our school song was ‘Danes over wold and fen, Britons encumber, scarcely a thousand men, Alfred can number’
John
John West:
I can believe it Dennis.Accents and language have always interested me, after finding that my schoolboy French actually worked in France! To the point of trying to understand the Russian Cyrillic in the Eastern Bloc and also Arabic, handily with a translation above on the road signs in Saudi!
I have a friend in the IOM and I think there is a huge Scandinavian influence there too.
looks like immigration has been a long standing problem in this country! Part of our school song was ‘Danes over wold and fen, Britons encumber, scarcely a thousand men, Alfred can number’
John
I have always found UK accents very interesting John and I reckon to be able to just about place anyone as to where they come from by their accent,but what about the Barrovian accent,now that is unique don’t you think ? I recall been in Tenerife on holiday in the early 90’s and we were in a Bar and there was two couples jabbering away at the next table and it sounded like it could have been Serbian or Double Dutch even ! So I was up at bar getting some drinks and one of these fellas came alongside and spoke to me in perfect English,so I couldn’t resist (being a nosey bugger!) I asked him if he wouldn’t mind telling me where he came from-----wait for it-----Angelsey in North Wales,now his Welsh bore no resemblance to the Welsh lingo I was familiar with !!We had a good crack for the rest of the night----in English ! Cheers Dennis.