ainacs:
Another Meachers ERF pic from Marc’s Scrapbook Thread
Regards Pat
When I used to be parked up on a night out by the baths on Western Esplanade I would hear those ERF’s of Meachers going out on nights, those with the 8cyl Gardners were one of the sweetest sounding motors going.
Now come on Trev,tell us what you really thought when those Meachers 8 potters woke you up? " Yow 'am noisy [zb] [zb]" !! Happy new Year by the way ! Cheers Dennis.
Yes happy new year Dennis ! No those motors didn’t wake me up, I’d be going over the road to the Juniper berry to get a skinful and see the local sights
Hi Trev,
Did you see Chris Webb in the Juniper Berry ? I think he used to have a few “Dodgy” nights out there
Regards
Richard
Yes I did see him, he was always at the back of the room wearing a cloth cap, ringing a bell shouting “order order order”
ainacs:
Another Meachers ERF pic from Marc’s Scrapbook Thread
Regards Pat
When I used to be parked up on a night out by the baths on Western Esplanade I would hear those ERF’s of Meachers going out on nights, those with the 8cyl Gardners were one of the sweetest sounding motors going.
Now come on Trev,tell us what you really thought when those Meachers 8 potters woke you up? " Yow 'am noisy [zb] [zb]" !! Happy new Year by the way ! Cheers Dennis.
I bet he was thinking I didn’t know Meachers ran Big Guy J 4T’s
rward:
jimski is the juniper berry still there us catnic drivers used to eat in there grub good some bloody sights in there regards rowland
Hi Rowland the last time I was in there for a meal about 18 years ago was then called “The Bosuns Locker”
Not sure what its called now will let you know might even get a pic for ya just to clear the grey matter and give ya some happy memories !!
Jimski:
Hi MaggieD I never put you down as a Juniper Berry man Rich !
Regards Jim
Hi Jim,
Hope you are well, only went in there once that was enough for me I was a young innocent lorry driver who didn’t know the difference between ■■■■■■ and arson and set fire to my sister
By the way great model as usual of Bob’s Scania well done, my IVECO you made went through it’s MOT last week
ainacs:
Another Meachers ERF pic from Marc’s Scrapbook Thread
Regards Pat
When I used to be parked up on a night out by the baths on Western Esplanade I would hear those ERF’s of Meachers going out on nights, those with the 8cyl Gardners were one of the sweetest sounding motors going.
Now come on Trev,tell us what you really thought when those Meachers 8 potters woke you up? " Yow 'am noisy [zb] [zb]" !! Happy new Year by the way ! Cheers Dennis.
Yes happy new year Dennis ! No those motors didn’t wake me up, I’d be going over the road to the Juniper berry to get a skinful and see the local sights
Hi Trev,
Did you see Chris Webb in the Juniper Berry ? I think he used to have a few “Dodgy” nights out there
Regards
Richard
Yes I did see him, he was always at the back of the room wearing a cloth cap, ringing a bell shouting “order order order”
Now now lads,only went in a couple of times,a young driver persuaded by older buggers to look at the finer points of life in Southampton.It were nowt out of the ordinary,not after spending two and half years in Singapore in the early 60s.
I eventually started to stay over in a transport motel in Millbrook(?),near Freightliner Terminal and Calor’s depot so the Juniper Berry was too far to walk to.
Now now lads,only went in a couple of times,a young driver persuaded by older buggers to look at the finer points of life in Southampton.It were nowt out of the ordinary,not after spending two and half years in Singapore in the early 60s.
I eventually started to stay over in a transport motel in Millbrook(?),near Freightliner Terminal and Calor’s depot so the Juniper Berry was too far to walk to.
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Hope you wernt down in Sambuwang village Chris in Singers !! good run ashore that was !!
The place your on about in Millbook, is that the place with that Damm myna bird !! Wasn’t you Chris that taught it all that bad vocabulary was it !!!
Jimski:
Now now lads,only went in a couple of times,a young driver persuaded by older buggers to look at the finer points of life in Southampton.It were nowt out of the ordinary,not after spending two and half years in Singapore in the early 60s.
I eventually started to stay over in a transport motel in Millbrook(?),near Freightliner Terminal and Calor’s depot so the Juniper Berry was too far to walk to.
Hope you wernt down in Sambuwang village Chris in Singers !! good run ashore that was !!
The place your on about in Millbook, is that the place with that Damm myna bird !! Wasn’t you Chris that taught it all that bad vocabulary was it !!!
Regards Jimski
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I can’t recall a Mynah Bird in that place Jimski,I suppose it would be about 1972/3 when I first stayed there,it was handy for away to ISR at Hythe,a regular tip/reload for us. There was a big boozer across the road from the motel,but I can’t remember the name of it. Certainly more upmarket than Juniper Berry but not half as much fun. Sembawang was RN wasn’t it,I was a Crabfat at RAF Changi 1964-66,Bugis Street,Lavender Street and Lorong 33 Geylang were Juniper type areas. Changi village could be quite entertaining at night as well…
I had to behave mesen as my dad was a Flt Sgt in the RAF Police/SBI at Seletar at the same time and also I was married with our lass with me,by my side,watching…
On second thoughts there may well have been a Mynah Bird at Millbrook,might have been the one that said “BRS drivers are wan*ers”,can’t be sure.
Jimski:
Now now lads,only went in a couple of times,a young driver persuaded by older buggers to look at the finer points of life in Southampton.It were nowt out of the ordinary,not after spending two and half years in Singapore in the early 60s.
I eventually started to stay over in a transport motel in Millbrook(?),near Freightliner Terminal and Calor’s depot so the Juniper Berry was too far to walk to.
Hope you wernt down in Sambuwang village Chris in Singers !! good run ashore that was !!
The place your on about in Millbook, is that the place with that Damm myna bird !! Wasn’t you Chris that taught it all that bad vocabulary was it !!!
Regards Jimski
I can’t recall a Mynah Bird in that place Jimski,I suppose it would be about 1972/3 when I first stayed there,it was handy for away to ISR at Hythe,a regular tip/reload for us. There was a big boozer across the road from the motel,but I can’t remember the name of it. Certainly more upmarket than Juniper Berry but not half as much fun. Sembawang was RN wasn’t it,I was a Crabfat at RAF Changi 1964-66,Bugis Street,Lavender Street and Lorong 33 Geylang were Juniper type areas. Changi village could be quite entertaining at night as well…
I had to behave mesen as my dad was a Flt Sgt in the RAF Police/SBI at Seletar at the same time and also I was married with our lass with me,by my side,watching…
On second thoughts there may well have been a Mynah Bird at Millbrook,might have been the one that said “BRS drivers are wan*ers”,can’t be sure.
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Hi Chris
That pub could possibly have been the Regents Park Hotel straight across Millbrook road and about a five minute walk up on the left!
Here is a pic coming out of Southampton towards that motel it was just past the freightliner terminal on the left.
I dare say you would have gone around this (Millbrook) roundabout, before they put a flyover here, on your way to Fawley
morning pat, just looking at the photo you put on here with hills going down by freightliners millbrook,well if you can imagine comeing the other way back into town,now im going back into the 50/60;s the road used to split into a one way street by the church,if you kept to the left of the church you would be going up towards shirley,there used to be a transport cafe up there on the right hand side,was it called sylaven cafe?(my have spelt it wrong)i think he sold up and moved to portugale,but before he went didnt he have the cafe outside freightliners/calor dept in millbrook.■■? think that was a motel as well.
bev wyatt:
morning pat, just looking at the photo you put on here with hills going down by freightliners millbrook,well if you can imagine comeing the other way back into town,now im going back into the 50/60;s the road used to split into a one way street by the church,if you kept to the left of the church you would be going up towards shirley,there used to be a transport cafe up there on the right hand side,was it called sylaven cafe?(my have spelt it wrong)i think he sold up and moved to portugale,but before he went didnt he have the cafe outside freightliners/calor dept in millbrook.■■?
Hi Bev
Not sure on the cafe but yes the road used to split into Waterloo Road coming into Southampton and Millbrook Road going out! on the lefthandside going out just before Freightliners there was a Motorcycle dealer Lawton and Wilson!
Also do you remember when one of the the roads out of Southampton went past the front of the Swimming Baths and Pirellis factory by the old walls.
Jimski:
Now now lads,only went in a couple of times,a young driver persuaded by older buggers to look at the finer points of life in Southampton.It were nowt out of the ordinary,not after spending two and half years in Singapore in the early 60s.
I eventually started to stay over in a transport motel in Millbrook(?),near Freightliner Terminal and Calor’s depot so the Juniper Berry was too far to walk to.
Hope you wernt down in Sambuwang village Chris in Singers !! good run ashore that was !!
The place your on about in Millbook, is that the place with that Damm myna bird !! Wasn’t you Chris that taught it all that bad vocabulary was it !!!
Regards Jimski
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Jim I stayed at the Millbrook for a couple of weeks we were doing some big loads internal at Esso Fawley and bye the time we nearly done the mynah bird was fluent at straight speaking Yorkshire vocabulary and I was blamed and received a bollocking but it did know the words already and and it was only its pronunciation which changed
cheers Johnnie
hi pat, yes mate remember them well,used to be a cafe in the park by the swimming pool,and didnt perelli move from there out to eastliegh,and remember brains haulage going into thier old place behind the baths.cheers for that pat,thursday isnt it mate,mr scorey round yet for a brew>> give him my best regards.
bev wyatt:
hi pat, yes mate remember them well,used to be a cafe in the park by the swimming pool,and didnt perelli move from there out to eastliegh,and remember brains haulage going into thier old place behind the baths.cheers for that pat,thursday isnt it mate,mr scorey round yet for a brew>> give him my best regards.
Yes Scorey P should be in today as usual but I don’t know who else will come!
Yes I think Pirellis had a few, one in town, one at Leigh Road, Eastleigh, and another at Chickenhall Lane, Bishopstoke.
Jimski:
Now now lads,only went in a couple of times,a young driver persuaded by older buggers to look at the finer points of life in Southampton.It were nowt out of the ordinary,not after spending two and half years in Singapore in the early 60s.
I eventually started to stay over in a transport motel in Millbrook(?),near Freightliner Terminal and Calor’s depot so the Juniper Berry was too far to walk to.
Hope you wernt down in Sambuwang village Chris in Singers !! good run ashore that was !!
The place your on about in Millbook, is that the place with that Damm myna bird !! Wasn’t you Chris that taught it all that bad vocabulary was it !!!
Regards Jimski
I can’t recall a Mynah Bird in that place Jimski,I suppose it would be about 1972/3 when I first stayed there,it was handy for away to ISR at Hythe,a regular tip/reload for us. There was a big boozer across the road from the motel,but I can’t remember the name of it. Certainly more upmarket than Juniper Berry but not half as much fun. Sembawang was RN wasn’t it,I was a Crabfat at RAF Changi 1964-66,Bugis Street,Lavender Street and Lorong 33 Geylang were Juniper type areas. Changi village could be quite entertaining at night as well…
I had to behave mesen as my dad was a Flt Sgt in the RAF Police/SBI at Seletar at the same time and also I was married with our lass with me,by my side,watching…
On second thoughts there may well have been a Mynah Bird at Millbrook,might have been the one that said “BRS drivers are wan*ers”,can’t be sure.
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Hi Chris yeah Sembawang village was our run ashore I was 16/17 years old then and having a Damm good time, I had a photo taken in a bar there with a Cheif Stoker form our ship the photo went missing years and years ago then about two months ago my Daughter turns up with it blimey what a shock I looked like a kid! Well that’s time for ya !!
Still with your Dad there at the time would have kept you away from places like that !!
Like Pat said the pub was probably the Regents Park or the Sailors Return which was also just across the road!
It looks like it was Sammyopisite who is to blame for the myna birds vocal humor !!!
The Regents Park sounds like the pub I mean,Sailor’s Return I would have avoided as it would be dodgy ground if the buggers had been at sea for a long time - Rum,Bum and Baccy and all that.
A more refined place to stay was a place on the Fawley road,on the right before turning down to ISR at Hythe,think it was called The Pinewood. Nice and clean and good snap.Was it Marchwood,can’t remember.There used to be some digs as you ran into S’oton on the A33,maybe called Seven Dials or summat,late 60s when I stayed there.
