Lawrence Dunbar:
Harry, Lawsons breakfasts were second to none, cooked to order day or night, Allways niceley cooked, no lace curtains around the eggs, or black spots,. We will have to have a trip down there somtime before long and enjoy , once again what we did over 50 years ago, what do you think. Cheers Larry
hiya,
Now that is a good idea Larry but only by bus on this occasion if we take a motor each it’ll be a bit tight on the parking area I’m thinking there would be at least a bus load just to see if the brekkie was up to the olden day standard’s, bacon, egg, tomato, sausage and a fried slice two bread and butter and a large tea, and I’ve filled the hip flask with a drop of decent stuff next stop Ma Greens for another session three sugars Ann.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry Lawson does well to cook good breakfasts and run all those tankers
Cheers Dave.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Harry, Lawsons breakfasts were second to none, cooked to order day or night, Allways niceley cooked, no lace curtains around the eggs, or black spots,. We will have to have a trip down there somtime before long and enjoy , once again what we did over 50 years ago, what do you think. Cheers Larry
hiya,
Now that is a good idea Larry but only by bus on this occasion if we take a motor each it’ll be a bit tight on the parking area I’m thinking there would be at least a bus load just to see if the brekkie was up to the olden day standard’s, bacon, egg, tomato, sausage and a fried slice two bread and butter and a large tea, and I’ve filled the hip flask with a drop of decent stuff next stop Ma Greens for another session three sugars Ann.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry Lawson does well to cook good breakfasts and run all those tankers
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
I’ve no doubt the Lawsons Tanker people will have patronised the place over the years good pull-ups always attract plenty of drivers and I’ll dare bet decent stops are getting fewer and far between, only going to be Salmonella outlets left before long though some of them are OK but who wants to trail back to the cab with a paper cup of tea and your brekkie in a bun there’s nobody to talk to and with both hands full you’ve the game on opening the shed door, definitely staying retired.
thanks harry long retired.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Harry, Lawsons breakfasts were second to none, cooked to order day or night, Allways niceley cooked, no lace curtains around the eggs, or black spots,. We will have to have a trip down there somtime before long and enjoy , once again what we did over 50 years ago, what do you think. Cheers Larry
hiya,
Now that is a good idea Larry but only by bus on this occasion if we take a motor each it’ll be a bit tight on the parking area I’m thinking there would be at least a bus load just to see if the brekkie was up to the olden day standard’s, bacon, egg, tomato, sausage and a fried slice two bread and butter and a large tea, and I’ve filled the hip flask with a drop of decent stuff next stop Ma Greens for another session three sugars Ann.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry Lawson does well to cook good breakfasts and run all those tankers
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
I’ve no doubt the Lawsons Tanker people will have patronised the place over the years good pull-ups always attract plenty of drivers and I’ll dare bet decent stops are getting fewer and far between, only going to be Salmonella outlets left before long though some of them are OK but who wants to trail back to the cab with a paper cup of tea and your brekkie in a bun there’s nobody to talk to and with both hands full you’ve the game on opening the shed door, definitely staying retired.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Know what you mean.There’s a good snack van about 15 miles from here which I go to quite often.Its good in the fine
weather ( when we get some ) as there is a table and chairs outside,you can have a chat and a laugh with drivers and whoever is there. Some of the drivers these days have lost the art of conversation so they still carry their grub and drink to the cab.
Its a different world to our days on the road.
Cheers Dave.
Talking of good cafes remember the doudle decker bus on the A64 east bound , I wonder if its still there the new roads are sometimes the cause of them closing down, I allways had a good b/fast in there, cooked to order , Happy Days, Larry
Lawrence Dunbar:
Talking of good cafes remember the doudle decker bus on the A64 east bound , I wonder if its still there the new roads are sometimes the cause of them closing down, I allways had a good b/fast in there, cooked to order , Happy Days, Larry
By eck larry i forgot all about that one,used to pass it regularly on my runs from bolton to n/east.When i was going north i could never get in and never fancied it s/bound as it was on wrong side of road in a bad spot.Last time i passed it had changed colours from red to black and looked rough.
regards dave.
Lawrence Dunbar:
A worthey winner it was a great final , the fued still goes on with Ss & the Ws. Old MR S, would have been very proud of his two lads. Harrison never looked like losing at any time during the race, great stuff, Regards Larry.
Another good cafe Sues at Fairburn in the laybye,cooked to order, local fresh eggs very tastey, parked up there for the night many a time. and walked back to the pub, what was its name ? I cant remember it , but one of the barmaids had nice threepenies. Happy Days, long gone but never forgotten Regards Larry
Can any of you old timers remember the Windmill when it first opened in the 50s, an old stone house converted into a transport cafe a bit rough ,but the grub was canny & cheap, the they had a ex. army type hut behind the house, & used it until the house was demolished, & the new place was built, which ended its days as a L/Chef,formeley a Happy Eater., It was nicknamed the Podarosa, very good at the start , but soon went downhill,it is now standing derilect for some reason, everything else on the old A1 is gone in that area. Regards Larry.
Another one in the laybye at Aycliffe before the A1M opened, He was a jock,he worked for Dalziels of Airdrie, they were bakers of the finest scotch rolls you could wish for.Jock used to deliver them around the area, & his family ran the caravan cafe,24,7 food cooked to order, allways busy, long gone are those happy days , Larry.50s60sEra
Lawrence Dunbar:
Another one in the laybye at Aycliffe before the A1M opened, He was a jock,he worked for Dalziels of Airdrie, they were bakers of the finest scotch rolls you could wish for.Jock used to deliver them around the area, & his family ran the caravan cafe,24,7 food cooked to order, allways busy, long gone are those happy days , Larry.50s60sEra
Larry,the caravan at Aycliffe i remember was run by the Trainer family, they lived just round the corner from me at the time,i sure the father’s name was Hughie,Vic.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye I remember the one at Douglas Water an old house South Bound on the 74. Good grub, I remember the arm chairs , real old fashioned ones but very comfey Regards Larry
Lawrence you seem to have a good memory what was the one called on the north side of Crawford if you were traveling south it was on the right side. You had to reverse into the car park up a slope off the road bit awkward with a loaded draw bar used to spin the turntable around unless you could square it up.
This was the car park for Glengylle which was next to the school.It was owned by Mrs Duncan.Coopers of Wednesbury and others used it for change overs. The Merlindale was on the left at the end of the village going south,the car park was down a slope. It has been made into two houses.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye I remember the one at Douglas Water an old house South Bound on the 74. Good grub, I remember the arm chairs , real old fashioned ones but very comfey Regards Larry
It was the miss Wilsons and the name of the house was Fochabers.It’s still there at Coalburn road end,There was a new bungalow there as well which took drivers owned by Mrs Kennedy.They were next to the Dak.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Talking of good cafes remember the doudle decker bus on the A64 east bound , I wonder if its still there the new roads are sometimes the cause of them closing down, I allways had a good b/fast in there, cooked to order , Happy Days, Larry
Just north of where the A64 meets the A1 used to be a little van run by a guy called Tony. Think it was Tonys diner it was at Bramham ,still dual carriage way in those days and you could stop on the roadside. It was nipping clean and always open till teatime, his sausage and egg sarnies and a clean pot with hot sweet tea kept me going for many a mile. Happy days
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye I remember the one at Douglas Water an old house South Bound on the 74. Good grub, I remember the arm chairs , real old fashioned ones but very comfey Regards Larry
It was the miss Wilsons and the name of the house was Fochabers.It’s still there at Coalburn road end,There was a new bungalow there as well which took drivers owned by Mrs Kennedy.They were next to the Dak.
Dead right,how did you remember that, its a long time ago what a shock when i seen the names and addresses.
hiya,
You’ll have to be ancient to remember this one sad to say I can I used it weekly for a few years the cafe/digs was Jack Blackburn’s “Amulree Guest house” Dock Street Dundee it stood just about where the northern end of the Tay Bridge is now good grub, clean beds and always nice and warm, happy days.
thanks harry long retired.
Never did that one Harry, I used to run hatch covers from Wright Andersons at Gateshead to the Calledon Shipyard in Dundee now & then, ran there more to Thompsons the printers ,but I had my own sleeper cab by then. Regards Larry
Another old cafe comes to mind , Spinks Cafe, opposite Peter Slaters Depot, looked like an old house, good cuppa, & nice food. Also there was a caravan opposite, then they buillt a wooden sort of Chalet type cafe, that was good too, food cooked to order,that was in the 50/60s on route Newcastle to Manchester.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye I remember the one at Douglas Water an old house South Bound on the 74. Good grub, I remember the arm chairs , real old fashioned ones but very comfey Regards Larry
It was the miss Wilsons and the name of the house was Fochabers.It’s still there at Coalburn road end,There was a new bungalow there as well which took drivers owned by Mrs Kennedy.They were next to the Dak.
Dead right,how did you remember that, its a long time ago what a shock when i seen the names and addresses.
When I worked at Millars of Abington we could have a mechanic there for a nearly a whole day in the winter defrosting vehicles at the three sets of digs.
Robert.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye I remember the one at Douglas Water an old house South Bound on the 74. Good grub, I remember the arm chairs , real old fashioned ones but very comfey Regards Larry
It was the miss Wilsons and the name of the house was Fochabers.It’s still there at Coalburn road end,There was a new bungalow there as well which took drivers owned by Mrs Kennedy.They were next to the Dak.
Dead right,how did you remember that, its a long time ago what a shock when i seen the names and addresses.
When I worked at Millars of Abington we could have a mechanic there for a nearly a whole day in the winter defrosting vehicles at the three sets of digs.
Robert.
Yeah,i stayed at Abington quite a bit at this time,i was driving for tayforth and remember the winters!!
Aye there was plenty of traffic on the old 74 in those days/nights,Millars were kept busy to say the least. Heres a few names I remember when I drove for Baxters Road Services Newcastle. P&S Contracts,Hull & Glasgow,Sam Anderson. J.K.Allan. McKelvie, Alexander Scott.Rapid Road Services,John Hunter Airdrey,Adamsons Carluke, Smiths Of Wishaw.John Barrie, James Hemphill, McNiel Maryhill.Stewart Cameron.Glasgow Hiring. Gavin Wilkie, Smiths of Whiteinch. ■■? Blantyre, Intercity C/Nauld. J&R.Wright, Rutherglen.& a few more I cant remember, it was a convoy of day wagons & night trunkers, // some more Silver Roadways , Danskins of Cupar plus the Howleters etc, good old happy days, Regards Larry.
