mushroomman:
It’s good to hear from you again Spardo and you can’t really blame Michael Caine for trying to pull Jane Asher in his bosses Rolls Royce. I would of done the same in my bosses Ford D Series if I had got the chance .
Me too Steve, wasn’t/isn’t she delicious, and not just because of all those cakes she makes.
First noticed her as a very young teenager in the Greengage Summer, in fact she is the only thing I remember from that film, couldn’t really be accused of paedophilia as I wasn’t much older myself at the time.
Hi David, I have just had another flashback , I keep getting them every time I come on this website .
Can anybody remember the graffitti on the back of the toilet doors at Watford Gap Services northbound in the 80’s ?.
Somebody had scrawled My Mother Made Me A ■■■■■■■■■■ and underneath somebody else had written, If I Buy The Wool Can She Make Me One .
Another cafe on the A30 on the way back from Redruth was run by two gay blokes, it was very clean and the breakfast was good, but I know it was on the lefthand side of the village, but was it blackwater or Indian Queens ?
mushroomman:
It’s good to hear from you again Spardo and you can’t really blame Michael Caine for trying to pull Jane Asher in his bosses Rolls Royce. I would of done the same in my bosses Ford D Series if I had got the chance .
Hi David, I have just had another flashback , I keep getting them every time I come on this website .
Can anybody remember the graffitti on the back of the toilet doors at Watford Gap Services northbound in the 80’s ?.
Somebody had scrawled My Mother Made Me A ■■■■■■■■■■ and underneath somebody else had written, If I Buy The Wool Can She Make Me One .
KW:
Running down the A12 the other week and I was reminded of ‘May’s Cafe’ just at the end of the Brentwood by-pass.
It’s still standing there,though it closed down many year’s ago,but I always remember ‘Len’ and his missus who ran it,and their miserable git of a son who just seemed to hate driver’s!
But Len had a habit of licking his thumb when he was picking up the sliced bread,you know,like some people lick their thumb when turning over pages of a newspaper.
Tended to put me off a bit that did.
Another favourite watering hole was the OK Cafe at Kelvedon (Now a Happy Eater or something) and us container bods would always stop there on the way back to Felixstowe.It was a good place for a ‘Dodgy’ night-out too.
That’s another thing,you don’t see any driver’s thumbing a lift home on a ‘Dodgy’ anymore!
Speaking of disgusting habits,I was in the queue one morning in Kate’s Cabin,on the A1 near Peterborough,and one of the old girls behind the counter was pouring out tea’s while the other one took the order’s for breakfast.
Well,I was watching the one pouring tea out for the bloke in front of me whilst he was giving his order to the other one.Only he didn’t see the big drop of snot that dripped from her nose straight into his teacup!
I did.I had a can of pop.
And the ‘Truckers Paradise’ at Godmanchester,which then was on the A604 (Now the A14) I’d called in there one morning for a quick cuppa,and picked out a scone from the cabinet on the counter.
The woman behind the counter then say’s to me “Ooh! I wouldn’t have one of them,they’ve been in their for two weeks”!
Just a tea then please.
Aah! Happy Day’s!
Does anyone a little cafe on the A5 just south of Hinkley Knight the Aviary I think it was called --a cracking little place open 24hrs!
do any of our senior members remember the cresta cafe , on the a6 at finedon (its still there).the eighteen mile cafe at london colney.and one of my favorites,charlies tea shop opposite spitalfield fruit market in commercial street london,where i spent many happy hours being entertained by all sorts of characters. happy days
diesel dan:
do any of our senior members remember the cresta cafe , on the a6 at finedon (its still there).the eighteen mile cafe at london colney.and one of my favorites,charlies tea shop opposite spitalfield fruit market in commercial street london,where i spent many happy hours being entertained by all sorts of characters. happy days
The one opposite Spitalfields was called the Golden Glove I think Dan,that was in 1969.You are right about the different characters that used to frequent the place and who could blame them.One feller I remember got out of his Roller,gold chains clanking,gold rings and Rolex Oyster glinting and declared over a mug of tea and huge sausage banjo that it served the “best bladdy meal in the smoke including Claridges”.
hi chris. i was sitting outside the cafe outside spitalfield market one night munching on my foot long cowboy french bacon roll , when a scruffy bloke banged on my door, he said, do you want to buy some gold, and thrust a carrier bag full of gold jewellery into my hand, i said how much ? paand he said every fink a paand .i told him i wasnt interested,but if he had a good watch i would be,hold on a mo john i will be back.after about twenty minutes he comes running back to my truck with blood pouring down his face and arms.whats happened to you i says? i just smashed the jewellers widow to get you a bleeding watch and the alarm went off couldnt get a watch ,will a silver tankard do, only a paand.
diesel dan:
hi chris. i was sitting outside the cafe outside spitalfield market one night munching on my foot long cowboy french bacon roll , when a scruffy bloke banged on my door, he said, do you want to buy some gold, and thrust a carrier bag full of gold jewellery into my hand, i said how much ? paand he said every fink a paand .i told him i wasnt interested,but if he had a good watch i would be,hold on a mo john i will be back.after about twenty minutes he comes running back to my truck with blood pouring down his face and arms.whats happened to you i says? i just smashed the jewellers widow to get you a bleeding watch and the alarm went off couldnt get a watch ,will a silver tankard do, only a paand.
PMSL. I can believe it as well Dan,only a paand john,bleedin’ bargin a paand .
I used to meet up with an Atlas Express driver from Coalville most nights,Leicester Forest going down and Leicester Forest coming home with another break at Spitalfields in between.He changed over at Bermondsey I think and I had to change over at Abbey Wood or sometimes Charlton so I’d got a bit more to do plus back to Sheffield whereas he only had to go to Coalville.We used to have some laughs,somebody was trying to nick some fruit off a sheeted load across the road,it was somebody going to Manchester market but the name of the firm escapes me.We all saw what was happening and nabbed this bloke and tied him to the load with proper dollies,the works. You should have seen his face when the driver told him how nice Manchester was at that time of year and would get a good view of the English countryside on his way up to Lancs from the side of his wagon,even though it was dark.
hiya,
Yes Norm, but in my case it was usually too big to fit in the shed and always when i was loaded out, once got offered a quality bed off a Silentnight driver and another time enough carpet to do Buck house but would have needed a forklift to lift the roll even got offered a three piece suite off a guy on a removals outfit, some of those cafe’s where like Aladdins cave the gear that was on offer.
thanks harry long retired.
diesel dan:
do any of our senior members remember the cresta cafe , on the a6 at finedon (its still there).the eighteen mile cafe at london colney.and one of my favorites,charlies tea shop opposite spitalfield fruit market in commercial street london,where i spent many happy hours being entertained by all sorts of characters. happy days
Hi Dan, I used to deliver to Spitalfields,The Gardens, Stratford and Borough Market with nets of peas 45/46 years ago. The Tea shop at Spitalfields same as the one in
Covant Gardens was used by many colourful characters, being a young country bumpkin I was not too wise in the ways of the Big City. Just a few facts and figures for you
younger members, My lorry a TK Bedford reg number 6572 DT (It was the ex demo model from the Vauxhall Bedford dealer Thompson’s of Doncaster) would do 6 trips a week
to London from Doncaster area with deliveries to 3 or 4 four markets and maybe up to 8 or 10 drops.We would leave around 5.0 in the evening to get to the Smoke around
Midnight when the markets opened, it could take upto around 4 or 5 hours to tip and then you would high tail it empty back home to ■■■■■■ a few hours sleep before
repeating it again the next night. The pea picking seasons would last for about 6/8 weeks, as I was an owner driver I tried to do 4 myself and pay a driver to do the other two, the going rate in the early sixties was £3-00 The lorry would carry 500 nets of peas for this we got one shilling per net, £25 per trip Going into London down the Hollaway
Road I seem to remember an all night cafe on the left frequented by lorry drivers, only stopped a couple of times as time was precious with so many drops on. regards Big Al
hi,big al.
i remember the cafe on hollowell road.bottom of archway bear right and left cafe on left, the irish truck drivers used it.do you remember the jack the ripper pub outside spitalfield market,at closing time the prostutes used to come rolling out and make a beeline for any lone truck driver who happened to be standing there.being an innocent country boy they used to frighten me to death.iwas standing there one night repairing a side light when one of the girls crept up on me and grabbed my wedding tackle,well, whats a man to do.i ran off, jumped into the cab fired up the mighty 180 gardner and commenced off,i swear i heard the wheels spin . ha. ha.
Hi can anyone remember the “Rocket” cafe on the A636 at the Junction with the A629 at Shepley near Huddersfield it closed late 70s and became the offices for Sykes Bulk Liquids which became Shawfleet
sammyopisite:
Hi can anyone remember the “Rocket” cafe on the A636 at the Junction with the A629 at Shepley near Huddersfield it closed late 70s and became the offices for Sykes Bulk Liquids which became Shawfleet
I remember it Sammy.I was only thinking about it the other day and couldn’t remember it’s name.
Have you lot seen the news, 50 years today the Blue boar cafe opened at Watford gap, I was 22 years old, the M1 started at Watford just after the Busy Bee cafe roundabout, and finished at J18, I remember the transport cafe, and saw many drivers eating the cakes while queueing for a breakfast, they soon put a stop to the self service.
Norman Ingram:
Have you lot seen the news, 50 years today the Blue boar cafe opened at Watford gap, I was 22 years old, the M1 started at Watford just after the Busy Bee cafe roundabout, and finished at J18, I remember the transport cafe, and saw many drivers eating the cakes while queueing for a breakfast, they soon put a stop to the self service.
It wasn’t 50 years ago that I remember but it was one of the best motorway services with a separate drivers section, separated from another building
Wheelnut, in 1975, when Carlsberg started, all the dodgies were there, I am sure other drivers from different firms thought it was the brewery car park
and you can’t really blame Michael Caine for trying to pull Jane Asher in his bosses Rolls Royce. I would of done the same in my bosses Ford D Series if I had got the chance
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, I keep getting them every time I come on this website 