Wilko:
Keep em coming.Where the docks in the set above
Porto, Matosinhos.
Wilko:
Keep em coming.Where the docks in the set above
Porto, Matosinhos.
Keep em coming Harry. Some memories of good times in those for me. Thanks for posting them
The blurred snap of the truck accident in the rain was the only main road from Porto to Lisbon ,on a good day it would take you 8-10 hrs. empty!
The people standing on the pavement were waiting to see the cortege of a young airman .He was the only one killed in the revolution that had taken place earlier in the week. They drove his coffin from Lisbon to Porto for the people to see.
The first B+W snap was the young driver of that Morris timber artic.A rope from one his sheets had wrapped around the prop-shaft & stalled the transmission which locked the drive wheels putting him off the road.
Portugal,Swiss,France,Spain,Maroc,Belgium & UK.
kerbut:
Correct there Vas, but there was also a good Chinese in the same complex
The chinky was downstairs IIRC. Decent grub too.
The baghouses were (so I’m told) all over the square, there were a couple next door to Freds and at least one on the opposite side of the square, the slappers used to bring in BOGOF beer vouchers, in the late 80s it was 100ptas for a beer in Freds and double that in the baghouses, those vouchers levelled things out, but the baghouse owners used to get the hump if all you did was drink and feel up the tarts
Fantastic photos,i see one of Fred,he has not changed that much,looks well,has a small bar in a block of flats in Coslada,still fluent in many languages.
The original Freds was dusty,and lots of fights due to the beer,he would tell me dont spend the weekend there,and get the bus or train to the city centre,i onced biked it there.
One or two photos of Lisbon,near the big bridge with the Christ on it.The old cobbled streets too.
Boceguillas
Baz,Lob-on,Skeletor,& that geezer from Sotton.
Baz
Glyn.
I was trawling back over the old threads on here and saw this. Thought I would bump it back up for our resident North Africa correspondent, Mr Robert. Quite a lot of Breda / Maroc photos on here.
harry:
pines:
harry the saviles lad in accident was that after 1992 i worked there till thenDon’t know but were you there when Little Jimmy bought it in Romania?
Harry where was that wooden bridge in Swiss sure I been there when I was pulling for uniex
bullitt:
I was trawling back over the old threads on here and saw this. Thought I would bump it back up for our resident North Africa correspondent, Mr Robert. Quite a lot of Breda / Maroc photos on here.
Good bump
I never did garments, and didn’t start going abroad, (mainly just Italy and Spain to start with) until 93/94 but once i did it i was hooked. Had some cracking times back then running up and down to Madrid, Barcelona, etc they were def the best times for me.
Many a ggod night at Victors, Freds, Nules etc. Could be hard graft at times, but you met some cracking people along the way and had some good times, oh how its sadly changed.
I recognize some of the Spanish photos, and there is no mistaking FRED, “hello mate!”
What became of Fred? And his right hand man, was his name Mano or something?
I recognize Skelly, (Phil i think) he was doing garments for DTS at the time, had a night out with him and a couple of Bredas lads i seem to remember, few beers at Freds, then off to the chinese, and may have ended up in Coslada town
I do miss the Spanish runs, good times!
Fred is doing well and still trading in Coslada.
He has not aged that much, his restaurant is on the ground floor in a block of flats.
Where the town has the circus, there are three large appartment blocks, he is in one of those.
Like you said, some rib cracking good laughs, some good people, it is not the same now.
Maybe I’m miles out but is that Kevin Miller? certainly looks like him, I haven’t seen him in about 18 years.
Excellent bump! I’d not seen this thread. It nicely compliments my North Africa Work thread on the Old Timers’ forum. I do recognise many of these drivers and their lorries, and drove some of the Breda examples. Cheers! Robert
toby1234abc:
Fred is doing well and still trading in Coslada.
He has not aged that much, his restaurant is on the ground floor in a block of flats.
Where the town has the circus, there are three large appartment blocks, he is in one of those.
Like you said, some rib cracking good laughs, some good people, it is not the same now.
I was there last summer
Fred has sold it to people who worked for him still says freds
Parking been blocked off but new owners will come collect you
Spoke to fred on phone he decided to retire and sell up
Told him of ghe rumours he was dead lol and he laughed and was def alive
Irishtrucker66:
Maybe I’m miles out but is that Kevin Miller? certainly looks like him, I haven’t seen him in about 18 years.
It’s Woody, isn’t it? Robert