Silly me, forgot to post the link…Here it is
youtube.com/watch?v=GPTei47Hxew
I can’t wait for the Great North Road book, I travelled it hundreds (or Thousands) of times when I worked for Herrings of Hartlepool in the Sixties and Seventies.
I still use the A1 at least five or six times a year, I moved south to live in 1979, I retired in 2001 but I still use it regularly to travel North to see my family and friends still living in Hartlepool.
Best Regards…Jimbo99
bumper:
hi lads,only new it as grantshouse cafe, it closed as a cafe in the early 70tys opened as a tourist and tarten shop for a while then went back to a cafe,last time i went past it was been used by some plant/machine outfitt,always used the little cafe just before dunbar,it was just after the railway bridge nextto the blacksmiths,this closed when they put the first dunbar by pass in,after that used the cafe at haddington, some of the older drivers will remember these cafe’s,
anvil cafe @dunbar
oak tree @haddington
Chris Webb:
That green shed would be the one at Scremerston I think Archie.Do you remember the Clock cafe just south of Scotch Corner on the n/bound side of the A1?
remember the port cafe where washington north bound services are now?
We had the contract out of Ecko Plastics Southend for Bumpers to Nissan in Washington, great run up the A1 in the late 80’s early 90’s, half single half dual carriageway then, I have heard its changed. Could still do SOS to Washington and back on 10 hours driving and that was without speeding, there never seemed to be traffis jams.
remember a road side cafe on a roundabout in Nottingham by the sign for Sherwood Forest
That roundabout has changed now, the A1 goes straight through as dual carriageway and the roundabout serves the slip roads and the A57. The caff was in a big layby just after the roundabout, like a log cabin thing. It was burned out a few years back.
I love driving the A1, it always makes me think of all the Old School drivers that have passed that way before me. Even now that it is virtually a motorway.
I had a complete rear light array stolen off my New EC11 at Kates Cottage once. I had only stopped for my tea. That was in '93 it wasn’t thier fault but I have never been there again.
I hope you don’t mind a post from a modern driver.
Br Al
Unless it’s been mentioned earlier 
does anybody remember the stretch of experimental surface of the A1 somewhere around Peterborough I think.It was like corrugated concrete,the Road Research Laboratory were in charge of it.AECs were noisy enough without running on that lot. 
Chris Webb:
Unless it’s been mentioned earlier
Yeah i remember that surface ,was there about about 10 mile of the stuff, the old Albions we had used to rattle along on that, its a wonder we did’nt end up with cold finger!!!
Yes I remember that too, its mentioned in the book although briefly cos I don’t know much about it. It was further south than Peterborough at Southoe, between Buckden and St Neots.
I don’t recall it being more than a couple of hundred yards long though 
Yes I remember it but I thought that it was only a stretch on the North bound lane about a couple of hundred yards long 
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Regards Steve.
Thats where the garage full of Volvo cars is isn’t it?
Wasn’t there a similiar surface on the A1 at Balderton (where the Lightning is)?
ERFMarc:
Thats where the garage full of Volvo cars is isn’t it?Wasn’t there a similiar surface on the A1 at Balderton (where the Lightning is)?
Yeah,thats the one i was thinking of did’nt think it was as far down as Peterborough!!
I know nothing about that one, with the mention of Albions etc it must have been before my time.
Lonewolf Yorks:
I know nothing about that one, with the mention of Albions etc it must have been before my time.
Yeah it was late 60s -early 70s.