Gloucestershire Firms

[retired_old_fart]

Me.Paul.101:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Did you have yer passport stamped when you ventured across the river?

I was incognito, well in the peugeot at least…

Sliding in under the radar, eh? As long as you don’t venture too far from them Forest 'ills.

[basilbrush]

Y111RDF:

Me.Paul.101:
I saw these the other week, It’s been well overgrown for about as long as I can remember. looks like someones been busy…3021And yes it is in Gloucestershire…

Mayshill?

They’ve been left to fall apart for years & it’s never made sense to me.

BB

[basilbrush]

Retired Old ■■■■:
I well remember Eric in that Seddon when Gloucester cattle market was where today’s bus station is.
Along with such names as H. Alan Jones from Hanley Swan, Northover Bros from Pilning, Bob Cooper and Roy Morgan.
Can anyone remind me who ran the petrol Bedford before Timms Bros (later James Timms) bought him out?

Can you remember A.F Cook, Walter Bye & Son and Troughtons Transport being there as well? I never knew the old market but I spent as many days as I could at the then New one. I reckon I first went there in about 1962. I’ve a few photos here somewhere but can’t find them at the moment

BB

[altitude]

Retired Old ■■■■:
Some of us old ■■■■■ can remember the cattle market in the middle of the city.

I wouldn’t own up to that!!!

[shakysteve]

altitude:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Some of us old ■■■■■ can remember the cattle market in the middle of the city.

I wouldn’t own up to that!!!

Didnt you used to take your horse and cart into there John ■■?lol.!

[wideboybob]

mike prossers 1st new truck, daf 2100.worked hard and was pretty reliable (i should know, i was a fitter there for a few years!) head lights were crap ,kept getting stone damage and filling up with water and the wiper linkage kept falling apart. seen here at lower lydbrook when we used to park them up there, loaded with drums of orange concentrate for beachams coleford.

[retired_old_fart]

Them was the days when we had to get up at four in the morning to light the boiler under the Sentinel!

[retired_old_fart]

wideboybob:
0mike prossers 1st new truck, daf 2100.worked hard and was pretty reliable (i should know, i was a fitter there for a few years!) head lights were crap ,kept getting stone damage and filling up with water and the wiper linkage kept falling apart. seen here at lower lydbrook when we used to park them up there, loaded with drums of orange concentrate for beachams coleford.

I brought many a load of that orange concentrate down from Liverpool docks. Some went to Coleford but most of mine were for Beech’s at Hereford.

[lurpak]

Severn Valley Woodworks


Forest of Dean Transport


Forest of Dean Caravans

Cheers
Ade

[nightrod]

pete62:
Anybody remember or got pictures of bennets from blakeney had a great uncle and uncle drive for them also told they moved us when we moved from oaklands park. My uncle went on to drive for cecil & ernest awre, dougie barber is his name if anyone nows him.

Afternoon Pete,

Being a Blakeney boy I can remember Bennett’s very well, only in the bygone days were you allowed a Transport yard right in the middle of a village. If my Gray matter is correct I swear they had blue Dagenham dustbin artics. Know Dougie since I was young and always use to stop me in the tracks as a youngster seeing him go by in Earnest’s Scanias. He came to work at Cecil’s then and was still there long after I left for pastures new.

Regards

Dean

[me_paul_101]

Nightrod:

pete62:
Anybody remember or got pictures of bennets from blakeney had a great uncle and uncle drive for them also told they moved us when we moved from oaklands park. My uncle went on to drive for cecil & ernest awre, dougie barber is his name if anyone nows him.

Afternoon Pete,

Being a Blakeney boy I can remember Bennett’s very well, only in the bygone days were you allowed a Transport yard right in the middle of a village. If my Gray matter is correct I swear they had blue Dagenham dustbin artics. Know Dougie since I was young and always use to stop me in the tracks as a youngster seeing him go by in Earnest’s Scanias. He came to work at Cecil’s then and was still there long after I left for pastures new.

Regards

Dean

Bennett’s, that’s the one I couldn’t remember. I’ll see our brother later I expect, so will see what he has to say…Cheers…Paul

BTW yers one for ya…What is this?

[daibootsy]

Richard Read

[wideboybob]

sorry for quality. one of ernest awre’s scanias

[retired_old_fart]

Me.Paul.101:

Nightrod:

pete62:
Anybody remember or got pictures of bennets from blakeney had a great uncle and uncle drive for them also told they moved us when we moved from oaklands park. My uncle went on to drive for cecil & ernest awre, dougie barber is his name if anyone nows him.

Afternoon Pete,

Being a Blakeney boy I can remember Bennett’s very well, only in the bygone days were you allowed a Transport yard right in the middle of a village. If my Gray matter is correct I swear they had blue Dagenham dustbin artics. Know Dougie since I was young and always use to stop me in the tracks as a youngster seeing him go by in Earnest’s Scanias. He came to work at Cecil’s then and was still there long after I left for pastures new.

Regards

Dean

Bennett’s, that’s the one I couldn’t remember. I’ll see our brother later I expect, so will see what he has to say…Cheers…Paul

BTW yers one for ya…What is this?0

O.K. I’ll stick me neck out & have a guess-

I reckon it was a Leyland before they built that cab.
Go one, then, make me look an idiot (or even MORE of an idiot than usual) and tell us what it really is. I reckon the photo’s taken outside Uncle Richard’s office?

[me_paul_101]

Retired Old ■■■■:

Me.Paul.101:

Nightrod:

pete62:
Anybody remember or got pictures of bennets from blakeney had a great uncle and uncle drive for them also told they moved us when we moved from oaklands park. My uncle went on to drive for cecil & ernest awre, dougie barber is his name if anyone nows him.

Afternoon Pete,

Being a Blakeney boy I can remember Bennett’s very well, only in the bygone days were you allowed a Transport yard right in the middle of a village. If my Gray matter is correct I swear they had blue Dagenham dustbin artics. Know Dougie since I was young and always use to stop me in the tracks as a youngster seeing him go by in Earnest’s Scanias. He came to work at Cecil’s then and was still there long after I left for pastures new.

Regards

Dean

Bennett’s, that’s the one I couldn’t remember. I’ll see our brother later I expect, so will see what he has to say…Cheers…Paul

BTW yers one for ya…What is this?0

O.K. I’ll stick me neck out & have a guess-

I reckon it was a Leyland before they built that cab.
Go one, then, make me look an idiot (or even MORE of an idiot than usual) and tell us what it really is. I reckon the photo’s taken outside Uncle Richard’s office?

I’m asking cause I don’t know. I’m surprised there’s not someone out there that’s driven vehicles like this, or am I being presumptuous? Yes it was at longhope.

[altitude]

shakysteve:

altitude:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Some of us old ■■■■■ can remember the cattle market in the middle of the city.

I wouldn’t own up to that!!!

Didnt you used to take your horse and cart into there John ■■?lol.!

No Steve that was before I started driving, I was working for Contrete Bob then…we built the place!!!

[dave_the_renegade]

Another Gloucester outfit.

[altitude]

daibootsy:
Richard Read

Here’s one for you Steve…who do we both know who would love this

[shakysteve]

altitude:

daibootsy:
Richard Read

Here’s one for you Steve…who do we both know who would love this

R K perhaps ?

[dave_the_renegade]

One from Cambridge Gloucestershire.