First of all, congrats to Steve on reaching retirement. I,m only 728 days behind him. 
Spit…thanks mate, what you up to these days…still on the cranes ■■?
Buzzer…I ain’t gonna be any good at this pub lark, being a non drinker.
Jimmer…good photo mate. 
Jimski:
Hi all today is a special day for this man !
Happy retirement Steve “Rocky” Cherrett !
Regards Jimski
Hi Jim I’ll pass on your good wishes to Steve, we’re all out tonight for a meal and Richard (Dixie) Green is coming
over too so there may be a strong smell of diesel in the restaurant!!!
Regards GAZ
mappo:
First of all, congrats to Steve on reaching retirement. I,m only 728 days behind him.Spit…thanks mate, what you up to these days…still on the cranes ■■?
Buzzer…I ain’t gonna be any good at this pub lark, being a non drinker.
Jimmer…good photo mate.
Right Mappo when you retire I can just see you on the bowling green with Rocky, nice quiet pace just like it was when you both worked for me ha ha ha ! cheers JD.
GazIOW,
Hi Gary wish Steve a Happy Retirement from Angie and myself,I haven’t forgotten his phone call at 3.30 am many years ago to tell me he was on Frankfurt services and a German livestock wagon had just reversed into the front of his truck,or him climbing up the ivy at Paladini’s trying to get to the girls from the office,in their bedroom 
and falling several feet to the ground.
Give my best to Richard GREEN.
Regards
Richard
Hi GazIOW have a good evening, I sure it’ll be a night to remember !! see you both in August ! or Augusta
Regards Jim
Have a good evening lads, it,ll be like a Jamesons jolly boys outing.
On to " C " for the Coopers arms on the corner of William St. where Les Slatey had his workshop, spent an hour or three in there, always had a meat draw Saturday lunchtime but had to get all the washdowns done before going in, think its called something else now cheers Buzzer.
Buzzer:
On to " C " for the Coopers arms on the corner of William St. where Les Slatey had his workshop, spent an hour or three in there, always had a meat draw Saturday lunchtime but had to get all the washdowns done before going in, think its called something else now cheers Buzzer.
Hi Sue and I just got back yesterday from a 13 cruise to the Canary’s on the P&O Ventura!
My contribution for the ‘C’ pub and a name close to your heart John our local The Coach and Horses
Regards Pat
ainacs:
Hi Sue and I just got back yesterday from a 13 cruise to the Canary’s on the P&O Ventura!Regards Pat
Hi Pat, thought you had the hump with us as you’ve been really quiet, now i see why. I am off on the Ventura at the end of this month, the wife wanted to try a “cruise”. more of a channel crossing though as we are on a 2 Dayer to Brugge.
Colin
Hi Pat welcome back and thanks for the" Coach and Horses ", do you know if Billy Robinson is still with the ex Landlady of that pub her name I think was Audrie but not sure. Do you remember when Billys dad upset him when they lived at Minstead and he drove his new F88 straight through the garage and destroyed it and also when he had a funny turn in his house in Romsey and went awol cutting up all the furniture with a chainsaw, rumour has it the police would not go in till he ran out of petrol, cheers John.
Buzzer:
Hi Pat welcome back and thanks for the" Coach and Horses ", do you know if Billy Robinson is still with the ex Landlady of that pub her name I think was Audrie but not sure. Do you remember when Billys dad upset him when they lived at Minstead and he drove his new F88 straight through the garage and destroyed it and also when he had a funny turn in his house in Romsey and went awol cutting up all the furniture with a chainsaw, rumour has it the police would not go in till he ran out of petrol, cheers John.
Nice one John…
Belated Greetings to TIR Tone… can’t believe your that old!
Thanks Balders,the cheque is in the post mate.
Now then " D " is for Dolphin in Botley bin by it loadsa times as I suspect many have on the way for MOT test in Hills Road but are there any more, Cheers Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Hi Pat welcome back and thanks for the" Coach and Horses ", do you know if Billy Robinson is still with the ex Landlady of that pub her name I think was Audrie but not sure. Do you remember when Billys dad upset him when they lived at Minstead and he drove his new F88 straight through the garage and destroyed it and also when he had a funny turn in his house in Romsey and went awol cutting up all the furniture with a chainsaw, rumour has it the police would not go in till he ran out of petrol, cheers John.
Hi John I haven’t seen Bill for many years so do not know if he is still with Audrie! I sometimes see Jimmy Alford on the golf course at Hamptworth I will ask him next time he may know! Last time I saw young John Symes was at Tutty’s party at Alresford a couple of years ago I think he was driving a unit pulling a medical scanner, and had been on for Meachers!
Todays Southampton pub near the docks The Duke of Wellington!
Regards Pat
Carrying on from and earlier post.
the first job for newbies at Clapcotts was running crude oil from oilfields, in Horndean and Alton, down to the Esso refinery, this meant many trips through the infamous Hockley traffic lights where in Summer you could queue for hours.
Later in life with sleeper cab and new owner.
From Nutsey Lane Clapcotts had tankers running on contract to Esso fawley, Berk chemicals, Carless Exploration and Shell whilst at Poole they had a contract with BP at Wytch Farm oilfield and also some work for Shell. They started a transport company in London called STAG, made up from their names (Seymore, Trevor and Graham), but the operations manager there was ripping them off and it was eventually sold to City Transport.
Volvo running Moulten Sulphur for Berk Chemicals
TBC
Colin
nilocekyd:
ainacs:
Hi Sue and I just got back yesterday from a 13 cruise to the Canary’s on the P&O Ventura!Regards Pat
Hi Pat, thought you had the hump with us as you’ve been really quiet, now i see why. I am off on the Ventura at the end of this month, the wife wanted to try a “cruise”. more of a channel crossing though as we are on a 2 Dayer to Brugge.
Colin
Hi Colin
No I did not have the hump as you put it, I try to log on when ever we were in a port but only had limited data allowance! The internet on board the Ventura was very expensive so I switched data roaming off! Calls both to and from my mobile were also extremely expensive £1.64p a minute to call and about £1.30p to receive calls!
Your recall of the Clapcotts is interesting I knew they had a depot at Millbank for years if fact I helped to demolish the workshop, the ground was incorporated into Halls Aggregates yard. I also knew they had a workshop/yard at Nutsey Lane now part of Calmore Ind Estate, where was their yard at Nursling?
I knew Trevor and Seymour quite well they used to drink at Minstead Club, and that is where I last saw Trevor at Pip Hickmans daughters wake a few years ago, he was not as sharp as he was and said he knew me and called me ‘Murphy’ . Seymour was living Oxford way. I did not know Graham that well although had a few cups of tea with him and Seymour at their Parkstone yard just around the corner from Mark Compton’s yard, he had a very nasty experience when his home was broken into and he was beaten up quite badly.
As JD would say “More Mary Hopkin moments”
Regards Pat
[quote=“ainacs”
Your recall of the Clapcotts is interesting I knew they had a depot at Millbank for years if fact I helped to demolish the workshop, the ground was incorporated into Halls Aggregates yard. I also knew they had a workshop/yard at Nutsey Lane now part of Calmore Ind Estate, where was their yard at Nursling?
I knew Trevor and Seymour quite well they used to drink at Minstead Club, and that is where I last saw Trevor at Pip Hickmans daughters wake a few years ago, he was not as sharp as he was and said he knew me and called mre ‘Murphy’ . Seymour was living Oxford way. I did not know Graham that well although had a few cups of tea with him and Seymour at their Parkstone yard just around the corner from Mark Compton’s yard, he had a very nasty experience when his home was broken into and he was beaten up quite badly.
As JD would say “More Mary Hopkin moments”
Regards Pat[/quote]
Pat,
yeah I got that wrong, I meant Nutsey Lane (now edited post).
as I said previously I found them all, including Colin and Neville (the outcasts) really nice people and all had terrific knowledge on trucks, engines, fuel pumps etc. in fact the Co. was called “Diesel Fuel Pump and Injector Services” but everyone knew the firm as “Clapcotts”.
here’s one of their old AEC’s at Mannings Heath, i think this one had been parked up for some time!
Colin
Todays pub letter is " E " for the Elephant and Castle although it is no longer there as it was demolished to make way for houses and flats on the Bursledon road out of Southampton, cheers Buzzer.
Hi All E for The Englishman Shirley ! used to pick up from there in the cab years ago !!!
Regards Jim
