mushroomman:
Hi Flishflunk, if it’s in The Rixton Earthquake Zone and the original builder was Ken Cast from The East Lancs Road, I might know this one. If it is and I had a pound for every time that I stood there with a log book in my hand doing a Dodgy I would probably be a tax exile by now living in The Isle of Man or Northampton even .
Whey,it’s the old Wooden Hut on the A57 near Cadishead isn’t it,“toasted fried spam sandwich please” .Two women and ■■■■,an American ran it and it was hugely popular.As for dodgies,well I’ve had one or two on there in me time,always hunted round for somebody going into Manchester or down the M63 as it was then to Stockport and Woodhead and home.On the log book would be Warrington,Widnes,E.Port,Manchester and sometimes even legal like Cadishead or Rixton which was a “force field” befote t’earthquake.
And Steve,I used to hide me dodgy money in a Quality Street tin and from 1968 until 1979 I accumulated enough cash to buy a flat over here,couldn’t afford one in Northampton.
Ray,tell me I’m not wrong about the cafe,otherwise I’ve posted this for nowt
Well done you two, unfortunately you will have to share the prize.
So that’ll be half a spam toastie each thankyou
Ray
Well,I’ve learned summat today - Moat Lane Cafe,IIRC it didn’t have a sign up,I thought it might have been called Chat Moss cafe as Chat Moss was at the back - I know me geography.So was it the Cara Cafe in the old lay-by on the A57 just before the M63 flyover near Barton Dock?
Had some dodgies on there as well
I’ll get me spam toastie now,cheers Ray.
hiya,
So Chris thats the secret of becoming a wealthy I.O.M. resident, anybody want to sell me a sweet tin cheap, i put all my fiddle into brewery shares, but now i know that Northampton is also a tax haven i’m beginning to realise i diverted my coin in the wrong direction too late to change now, but i know where to come if i’m ever in need of a few readies.
thanks harry long retired.
Well done you two, unfortunately you will have to share the prize.
So that’ll be half a spam toastie each thankyou
Ray
Well,I’ve learned summat today - Moat Lane Cafe,IIRC it didn’t have a sign up,I thought it might have been called Chat Moss cafe as Chat Moss was at the back - I know me geography.So was it the Cara Cafe in the old lay-by on the A57 just before the M63 flyover near Barton Dock?
Had some dodgies on there as well
I’ll get me spam toastie now,cheers Ray.
Hiya Chris,
there was a cafe on both sides of the road, both in large lay-bys. I always knew the one on the left going away from the M63 as the Cara caff. The other ones name I can’t think of at the moment, but I shall try and find out.
Wish I had saved my n/o money
2 nights out a week (Tues and Thurs) for about 4 years and only stayed out once and that was because the Time and Motion man came out with me. Ever tried making what you normally did in a day last for 2 days
Time and Motion man said on the second day, did’nt we come round here yesterday Er no
Bit much though when he started clapping after I overtook a farm tractor. He said that’s the first thing you’ve passed in 2 days.
Aye time and motion Ray.When the Transcontis first came for drawbar work,about 1979/80 it was decided to send a TSM out on nights to check delivery times,loading bays,access and all that crap.I took an ex driver one night and went to Altrincham depot for the dolly swap via Woodhead from Maltby then onto Liverpool.Speed limit was 30mph on all roads except Mways which was 60mph for drawbars.By the time we got to Stockport and away out to the A560 at Wyth he’d gone to sleep and was still asleep at “the Rocket”,end of the 62 in L’pool before Edge Lane.I’d swapped trailers at Alt,handed p’work in,had a bit of snap,two ■■■■ and then gave the old ■■■■■■■ some gun but he slept through the lot.
All we wanted was to be left alone and not told to use the M18/M1/M62 route,Woodhead was far more interesting and nearly 40 miles shorter.
Never heard any more about it so I must have done the job right,but the market men like Machins and Parkers,Spalding and Redferns and Cutts from Barnsley and BIS on the sand tank job,plus Bass Charrington weren’t used to us crawling over Woodhead at 30mph,even for only one night
Norman Ingram:
Anyone remember the cafe in London, where you could get to it off of the A4, one road would lead on to the M4, you could go in boths sides once, then they made it one side in, and the otherside out. now it is closed down.
HELP me my heads gone. Before the M62 was open. I used to run from LEEK to LEEDS after going through Ashton and Dingle going up over Standish
just before you joined the A62 in a lay by (bit of old road)there was a cafe and you climed up some steps to it WHAT was it called■■?. Its a house now
painted white I came past 6 years ago. But the cafe closed just after the M62 opened.
Thanks John
flishflunk:
Hiya Chris and Steve,
Spot on
As far as I know it’s still open now.
Think it’s proper name was (is) Moat Lane Cafe.
Well done you two, unfortunately you will have to share the prize.
So that’ll be half a spam toastie each thankyou
Ray
Well,I’ve learned summat today - Moat Lane Cafe,IIRC it didn’t have a sign up,I thought it might have been called Chat Moss cafe as Chat Moss was at the back - I know me geography.So was it the Cara Cafe in the old lay-by on the A57 just before the M63 flyover near Barton Dock?
Had some dodgies on there as well
I’ll get me spam toastie now,cheers Ray.
Ray is there any chance that I can have a blob of brown Tiger Sauce on my spam toastie .
Hi Chris,your right again Grasshopper I.I.R.C. there was a cafe in the big layby next to Barton Airport and another cafe not far away on the opposite side. I never parked in that layby overnight as it was to close to home but in my log book The Wooden Hut at Rixton came under Warrington area .
I never used that cafe in the layby next to Barton Airport after my mate Brian told me about the last time that he had been in there. He was doing local deliveries in a Transit and pulled up near to the cafe which was then in a porta cabin and after spending a few minutes sorting out his delivery notes for the day he walked in for a cuppa. It was about 3.30 in the afternoon and there was only a couple of wagons parked at the bottom of the layby. When he got inside he was surprised that there was nobody around not even anybody behind the counter. Then he heard the sound of water running into a steel bucket coming from behind the counter as he looked over the counter he saw a girl having a pee into the bucket. He said that he just turned around shaking his head and walked out. ( You can tell he wasn’t an artic driver ) .
Brian told me this in 1987 and I don’t think that he was pulling my leg at the time but I never did go in there.
It was about 3.30 in the afternoon and there was only a couple of wagons parked at the bottom of the layby. When he got inside he was surprised that there was nobody around not even anybody behind the counter. Then he heard the sound of water running into a steel bucket coming from behind the counter as he looked over the counter he saw a girl having a pee into the bucket. He said that he just turned around shaking his head and walked out. ( You can tell he wasn’t an artic driver ) .
Brian told me this in 1987 and I don’t think that he was pulling my leg at the time but I never did go in there.
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The old ■■■■■■■■■■■■■ eh ? or a case of all the water in this establishment passed by the staff regards Big Al
Big Al:
It was about 3.30 in the afternoon and there was only a couple of wagons parked at the bottom of the layby. When he got inside he was surprised that there was nobody around not even anybody behind the counter. Then he heard the sound of water running into a steel bucket coming from behind the counter as he looked over the counter he saw a girl having a pee into the bucket. He said that he just turned around shaking his head and walked out. ( You can tell he wasn’t an artic driver ) .
Brian told me this in 1987 and I don’t think that he was pulling my leg at the time but I never did go in there.
The old ■■■■■■■■■■■■■ eh ? or a case of all the water in this establishment passed by the staff regards Big Al
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Aye,reminds me of the time when one of our drivers gave an old bugger the knock back outside the Legion club in Newport and she wapped her drawers down and started peeing in the gutter saying “I hope you realise I’m sat on a pot of gold here” at which point our driver said “I’ll get some other bugger to pan for it then”
I don’t think I ever went in the one at Barton Airport,it was always the wooden hut going east and the Cara going west.
hiya,
Mel i used to do two loads a night of polished water per night into Blackburn Meadows power station from Thorpe Marsh power station Barmby Dun near Doncaster, which in those days was a piece of cake “no limiters” we was payed 12 hours a shift at a special rate of pay, unfortunately for me i was a glutton for punishment and preferred tramping and ropes and sheets but it was a great job for someone who could stand repitition and liked tanker work, i could never get away with tankers or tippers too boring just like myself.
thanks harry long retired.
A mate of mine sent me this,says it’s north of Berwick on the A1.I haven’t been up there since 1979 so does anybody know if it’s still open.I only remember the one at Scremerston,just south of Berwick on the R/H side northbound.
Here is another teaser, cafe in Ipswich was very popular with truckers, but sold a large part of the car park to a supermarket, and still traded, it was about a quarter mile from the football ground, I do not know if it is still open?
Chris Webb:
A mate of mine sent me this,says it’s north of Berwick on the A1.I haven’t been up there since 1979 so does anybody know if it’s still open.I only remember the one at Scremerston,just south of Berwick on the R/H side northbound.
The Scremerston was a life saver, open 24hrs there was very little else at night on the A1 between Newcastle and Edinburgh in the early 60’s regards Big Al
I remember Scremerston well it used to be the first port of call for me having loaded at Gorgie slaughter house with 1,000 lambs was a real cafe and there would be all sorts pulling in there for a brew,George T Fraser,Daniel Stewart,Pollocks,Clabens oh those were the days!
LB76:
I remember Scremerston well it used to be the first port of call for me having loaded at Gorgie slaughter house with 1,000 lambs was a real cafe and there would be all sorts pulling in there for a brew,George T Fraser,Daniel Stewart,Pollocks,Clabens oh those were the days!
Proper transport cafe, ref Claben do you remember “Wee Arthur” drove for them in the 60’s ? regards Big Al
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Er no 
regards Big Al
