Muckaway:
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They have turned a lot of the old warehouses in Gloucester Docks into posh flats now Nathan. That must be one of the few left.
Cheers Dave.
Me last year, on a night out in Scotland (Livingston).
Dave the Renegade:
Muckaway:
0They have turned a lot of the old warehouses in Gloucester Docks into posh flats now Nathan. That must be one of the few left.
Cheers Dave.
That one is, Dave. It was Pridays, taken over in '93 by Dalgety and closed the following year. The old ADM mill is still there, derelict. Itâs nextdoor to the Quays shopping centre multistorey.
Anyone know if Tewkesbury Mill has started to be redeveloped? Matthews bought some old machinery from there last year, refurbished it and itâs now running at Shipton. My mate went there with the mill engineer in an articto collect the stuff, said it was like the Mary Celeste inside.
Good Luck on your new job , âMuckawayâ . 
Back to driving the DAFs again.
Keep your shovel clean, and don`t allow loose flour inside your wellies on a wet day. 
I guess youre too tall to be one of Mr. Homeprides Flower Graders â â 
âŚAnd âDave the Renegadeâ reckons I dislike younger drivers , huh . 
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
it doesnât matter how many straps you put on plastic food pallets shirt box the bloody things slip around . all you achieve with straps is torn bags . iâm surprised elf n safety still allow their use . wooden pallets canât be used to store flour in a bakery . another case of conflicting rules with the driver catching the flak .
I think itâs the customers they supply that specify no wood pallets, as many bakeries still accept them. Meant to be easier to clean, but most have bits broken off so dirt and germs will find their way in. Iâve heard theyâre about ÂŁ80 each to buy. Many places will only give you the same number that youâve delivered; I dropped 5 at one place today, I delivered 6 last week so there were 6 empties. I was only allowed to take 5 though. Youâd think theyâd want to send them back as they get charged for them.
cattle wagon man:
âŚAnd âDave the Renegadeâ reckons I dislike younger drivers , huh .Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Quite so as they canât rope and sheet, and if theyâre like me, donât give a â â â â because we use curtainsiders and straps nowadays.
Tewkesbury mill has now been sold and plans approved for some of the site mainly the old buildings this side of the bridge the old offices and canteen/mill stores etc but no work started yet.All the contents left got sold by auction last year.cheers flourpower.
Muckaway:
Dave the Renegade:
Muckaway:
0They have turned a lot of the old warehouses in Gloucester Docks into posh flats now Nathan. That must be one of the few left.
Cheers Dave.That one is, Dave. It was Pridays, taken over in '93 by Dalgety and closed the following year. The old ADM mill is still there, derelict. Itâs nextdoor to the Quays shopping centre multistorey.
Anyone know if Tewkesbury Mill has started to be redeveloped? Matthews bought some old machinery from there last year, refurbished it and itâs now running at Shipton. My mate went there with the mill engineer in an articto collect the stuff, said it was like the Mary Celeste inside.
Muckaway:
cattle wagon man:
âŚAnd âDave the Renegadeâ reckons I dislike younger drivers , huh .Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Quite so as they canât rope and sheet, and if theyâre like me, donât give a [zb] because we use curtainsiders and straps nowadays.
Oh! dear Nathan,youâve let me down big time,I would have thought that youâd be a natural at sheeting and roping 
but youâve âgone over to the other sideâ The summer is on itâs way so what better time than to switch you onto a flat and make your deliveries of Flour like real drivers used to do prior to the introduction of curtainsiders 
By the way,who built the body on your motor,a well known name or a local body builder? Cheers,although very disappointed,Dennis
I never had the luxury of delivering flour with a curtainsider. It was all done with my Bedford S-type or my mateâs Albion Reiver. With proper roping & sheeting, of course. And at that time I donât think pump trucks had been invented. They wouldnât have been much good for getting those hundred-weight-&-a-quarter bags up in the granary, anyway!
I havenât done a granary delivery since coming back Casey. There is a bakery near Leicester that still has one, but most seem to be holiday lets and granny flats nowadays.
Talking of Tewkesbury, I wonder if the silo has leant over much more?
I wouldnât have thought it could have gone too much further!
mr flourpower i have few pictures of j n millers wolverhampton,who where flour millers until 1960,from foden steamers to lad cabbed albions got to find a way to copyright em,then work out how to post them,will do it over the next week if you interested,cheers pete
pete smith:
mr flourpower i have few pictures of j n millers wolverhampton,who where flour millers until 1960,from foden steamers to lad cabbed albions got to find a way to copyright em,then work out how to post them,will do it over the next week if you interested,cheers pete
J N Millers flour mill is still standing in Corn hill Wolverhampton, only just though ! At BRS Wolves we had 4 or 5 lorries working for them in their colours till they finished early 90âs IIRC.
hello trev worked at jn millers myself i can remember brs doing work,thats when they had yard in jenner street,little steve in office was it arthur his gaffer and the depot manager ted baker? but drivers called him shaw taylor cos he looked like bloke off police 5! cheers pete
pete smith:
hello trev worked at jn millers myself i can remember brs doing work,thats when they had yard in jenner street,little steve in office was it arthur his gaffer and the depot manager ted baker? but drivers called him shaw taylor cos he looked like bloke off police 5! cheers pete
Yes your right Pete, I worked at Ettingshall rd., Jenner st. and Foxes lane, I still speak to Steve now and again, yes Ted Baker was the depot manager at that time. I managed to dodge the Millers job I was on general haulage then.
Still work with some of the same lads today but of course itâs DHL now, been with then 38 yrs At the moment I work out of Fred Smiths yard at West Brom.
if i remember right dave tarbucks son also called dave did a stint on a leyland constructor bulk blower at millers another lad was ray duncombe think he ended up with steve at atlas bolt darlo,little bloke [used to work at roadline? in gypsy lane willenhall ] terry cant think of surname he done 12 months of it trevor kelly another,terry the wash [blue leyland terrier always on test track in goodyears asleep] think he done couple weeks,i only stuck it cos millers put on that young drivers scheme plus i was young and did not know any better! my last truck at millers was in fact a brs motor a leyland freighter D687TAW the workshop manager [foxes lane] tony eggington would moan at service time cos of the âcountryside aromaâ! got to go now trev on nights out rest of week,real ones not them dodgies! ta pete
Now, this is a proper load of flour⌠on a proper lorryâŚ
It seems incredible that we all used to load stuff like that. Doesnât it make you feel old?