hiya.
Norm, bet i’ve used the same cafe similar two staff used to deliver and collect to/from a metal hardening company in the shade of Sheff U football ground i used to sheet up under where the stand reaches out over the road, remember the name, you’re joking, i can’t remember yesterday.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry, It must have been you that inspired me to become a trucker,
After training I remember watching you sheet up, can’t remember the café though,
Anyway when I was 21 I asked for my release from Sheffield United got my Class 1 & also started riding Speedway. What a life I have had thanks Harry
hiya,
Well C C K if it was me i’m just pleased i was of help i was easy to spot it was usually a 55 ft trailer i was dragging about when doing that job, good job it was too one of our few day trippers, Durham to Sheffield tip and load at the same place back to Durham easy money all crane, my only claim to fame in the footballing world was when i lived in Lancashire as a youngster i got a trial (i’m going to whisper this ) with Accrington Stanley, did’nt get anywhere,was rubbish on the day, your career sounds like it went much better, but if i’d have been any good at the beautiful game i think i know which path i’d have taken and it would’nt have involved early starts and ropes and sheets.
thanks harry long retired.
Bloody hell Harry, think yourself lucky, that you had a warm cab, and you never made it on the pitch, it was a cold old place in that ground, I went there when I was sixteen, then later they went out of the league altogether, and only just got back, but was informed, the ground has not changed a lot! 
hiya,
Norm when i had my trial there it was a long time before they went bust but as a very amateur player i’ve played on a lot worse pitches than that one at least it did have grass on it, and Norm if i’d played well, and i was’nt bad on a good day i might have bee able to retire at around 35 and lorry driving would’nt have got a look in.
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Norman Ingram:
Bloody hell Harry, think yourself lucky, that you had a warm cab, and you never made it on the pitch, it was a cold old place in that ground, l:
You were either very fortunate in your choice of wagon or your memory has really gone haywire Norman. 
I don’t remember any cab of mine before about 1979 being warmer than Accrington Stanley’s pitch. In fact many’s the time muffled up to the eyeballs I would have been glad of a run around any football pitch - or the sight of Stainmore caff and its roaring fire looming at the top of the hill. 
Dave my old chap, I think your memory has gone, or you drove old relic’s for a very long time, for in 1975 I drove Leyland marathons, and they was good heaters, before that I drove the ford with the transit type cab, lovely and warm, bedfords were quite good, the scania’s and volvo’s were excellent, that was in 1969 when I was in them, the only one I remember was a old Guy Vixen which I drove when I came out of the army, I needed to burn a newspaper to clear the ice off of the screen, but I soon corrected that with a heater from a morris minor, it was a Smiths, long memory Norman.
hiya,
Talking about heating i once knew a girl who only had one tooth in the middle of her top gum, i used to call her “central eating”.
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harry_gill:
hiya,
Talking about heating i once knew a girl who only had one tooth in the middle of her top gum, i used to call her “central eating”.
thanks harry long retired.
I called mine JUANITA
hiya,
Viking yours must be a posh bird.
thanks harry long retired.
Cheers Dave.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Talking about heating i once knew a girl who only had one tooth in the middle of her top gum, i used to call her “central eating”.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
She sounds more like a grey squirrel,than a bird. 
Cheers Dave.
Hiya CCK going back to the 80s. If you travelled along. Medow bank road from the motorway after 1/2 mile you go under a bridge on the right was a scrap
yard they had Volvos Blue chassis Brown mudguards and a creamy coloured cab one 6 legger was like spanking new all the time the driver was Colin …
He left that scrap yard and set up on his own with a F10 It was Brown (from another Sheffield firm) In a matter of time he had about 12 motors taking rea bar to the channel tunnel like 24…7 I think his lorries was sprayed white. His yard was by the M1northbound slip road at the end of the Viaduct . After the contract ended i think he struggled a bit and has only 1 lorry now. And maybe lives nr Darnal. Do you mabe know him. If anyone can think of this chap lets have him on here.
Cheers John.
hiya,
Dave i think she was of the red variety having bright ginger hair, still quite a few reds about near me but the greys are getting a foothold which is a shame.
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Hi Harry,
On a serious note,there are more grey squirrels about this year than ever. Better not say no more,it will put em off going in the cafe’s.
Cheers Dave.
Hi if your starving you’ll eat them. Cooked properly the’re nice don’t start a thread on food i’ve eaten the lot. I ate at a place in Nirobi called carnivors and its
all on the menu. Croc zebra boar antilope I must admit I would’nt eat any of the apes on principal.I did eat at the Airport cafe on the A38 and got away with it.phew.
John
3300John:
Hi if your starving you’ll eat them. Cooked properly the’re nice don’t start a thread on food i’ve eaten the lot. I ate at a place in Nirobi called carnivors and its
all on the menu. Croc zebra boar antilope I must admit I would’nt eat any of the apes on principal.I did eat at the Airport cafe on the A38 and got away with it.phew.
John
Hi John,
There is a butchers shop in Leintwardine Herefordshire that sells squirrel pie,they have been on telly a few times,supposed to taste like chicken,probably a bit nutty flavoured.
Cheers Dave.
There were some digs at Carshalton run by a nice old lass and she used to leave the window open at breakfast time so “Sammy” the squirrel could come in and join you
Didn’t bother me but there were one or two drivers tempted to whack it and chuck it back in the garden. 
hiya,
Dave squirrel pie, would give that a go, have eaten some funny old dishes in far east cafe’s croc, snake, monkey, ants in chocolate, all with no ill effects, but would draw the line at having Chris’s tree rat running round the brekkie table would have cracked it round the lughole with the Daily Mirror.
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WAtch out you lot, if my grandaughters knew you was talking about squirrels like that, after they was in the park in Bournemouth, getting them to feed out of their hands, they would report you to the R.S.P.C.A. 
diesel dan:
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.[/qui remember you DD,used to leave you cab unlocked so the old birds could get in for a warm,i wonder if anyone else can recall this,how the hell would they get warm in an ERF?