Yes Colin was always in a rush i knew him for 30 years or more and use to exchange photographs with him i have alot inside the quarry on the aproach road and in the small narrow lanes in Kilnsey. Cowgills of Skipton, Taylors of Skipton, Longthornes of Hebden plus lots of owner drivers from around the aera
Great pics quarryman. Many thanks for posting them.
BonkeyDollocks:
Great pics quarryman. Many thanks for posting them.
Super ,keep them coming ,I wouldn’t fancy that in winter .
Dan Punchard:
Thanks Barry ,I’ve got the 8 wheeler book and the fair ground book ,in them he writes of doing more volumes did they happen ? Thanks Dan
Sorry if this message appears twice, but first submission disappeared into the ethos!!!
Volume 1 Eight Wheelers
Volume 2 Fairground Transport
Volume 3 Pickfords
Volume 4 Bus Company Service Vehicles
Volume 5 Tankers
Volume 6 Post Office and Telephone Vehicles
Articulated Lorries ( no volume number)
Barry/Gloves
I’ve got 1,2 &5 ,articulated lorries sounds ok if his other books are owt to go by .
JFC999:
quarryman:
Threshfield quarry was mothballed December 2001 with some redundancies during 2002/03 all the crushing /grading plant was removed. When planning was granted to extract a further 24 million tonnes from Swinden quarry in 2008 this was the last nail in the coffin for the Threshfield quarry having walked into the upper quarry recently there are millions of tonnes still left up there to be quarriedCheers Quarryman, I was talking to a workmate who also worked for Clogger and he said he got one of the last loads out of Kilnsey before it closed.
You are obviously from the Grassington side of the hill, I’m from Pateley I would think paths have crossed at some stage.
Jim
Few from my collection, some 21 YEARS AGO!!! How time flies
Barry/Gloves
PS Someone several months ago put up the photographs of the Ergomatic 8 wheeler on its way down ‘on its SIDE’ think it was ‘Rum do at Kilnsey’?
I think a rum do at kilnsey quarry was posted by Bonkey Dollocks .
Hi Barry. It was me who added the thread some time ago. The photos came from Colin after he lent them to me around 2008. Here’s the link to the thread:
Dan Punchard:
BonkeyDollocks:
Great pics quarryman. Many thanks for posting them.Super ,keep them coming ,I wouldn’t fancy that in winter .
Was thinking that myself Dan! Dropping down into Slinter was bad enough. Never heard of Kilsney before and I have Holidayed in that area many times over the years, know of Threshfield and I have been to Swinden and the dreadful Skipton Rock of course but this is a fresh one on me.
Pete.
JFC999:
quarryman:
Threshfield quarry was mothballed December 2001 with some redundancies during 2002/03 all the crushing /grading plant was removed. When planning was granted to extract a further 24 million tonnes from Swinden quarry in 2008 this was the last nail in the coffin for the Threshfield quarry having walked into the upper quarry recently there are millions of tonnes still left up there to be quarriedCheers Quarryman, I was talking to a workmate who also worked for Clogger and he said he got one of the last loads out of Kilnsey before it closed.
You are obviously from the Grassington side of the hill, I’m from Pateley I would think paths have crossed at some stage.
Jim
Few more from the collection
Barry. Daf 95 was horace newsome from keighley and winterburns first 85 with rod driving. Mine doesn’t look too bad neither.
scrapman:
Barry. Daf 95 was horace newsome from keighley and winterburns first 85 with rod driving. Mine doesn’t look too bad neither.
Young Gill driving Beaky’s truck. Not many drivers then and now, dressed in t shirt, short short shorts and boots, could hardly keep the camera still!!!
Barry
quarryman:
Cowgills Atkinson artic JWW300J crossing over the cattle grid on the climb up to the quarry
Nice photo of a proper motor in a fabulous setting! Thank you 
I like the quote young Richard that photo must have been taken 20 years ago Barry ,you,ll have to let me have a copy sometime when we get a chance to meet up ,they were busy days four loads a day to marshalls at hipperholme was the norm for me and vaughan shoveling snow to get up to the quarry in winter and you had to be carfull on the way back down
hi richard 5 loads on thursdays so we had easy friday and some times a gig in and amongst
scrapman:
hi richard 5 loads on thursdays so we had easy friday and some times a gig in and amongst[/quoteCome on lads you all know you had a job on to keep up with Beeky
Cheers dave
YOUNGDAVE:
scrapman:
hi richard 5 loads on thursdays so we had easy friday and some times a gig in and amongst
[/quoteCome on lads you all know you had a job on to keep up with Beeky
Cheers davespeeking of beeky do you remember the first time we took him down to maltby vaughan? we sat him in the rocking chair all the way ,i dont think poor alan had been on a motorway before ha ha knighty looked after him though.