Hi Tyneside, Re the Northern Worswick Street bus station demolition take a look at the link below showing a good selection of demolition photos.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Hi Tyneside, Re the Northern Worswick Street bus station demolition take a look at the link below showing a good selection of demolition photos.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Thanks for the link, pictures of the demolition of the area keep appearing on the local history f/b page.
The whole bottom end of the town is being redeveloped, future flats are already being advertised and sold off plan.
Tyneside
Carl Williams:
tyneside:
Castellon:
I started in haulage back in the early ‘70’s.Worked for a company called Taylor’s of Teesside.Moved on to David Fox,BICC,Carlisle Bros,Econofreight,Stockton Haulage,Dart,and Whitfields,all amongst the firms I worked for.Retired in 2019,and miss it all!The lads,the comradeship,the laughs and even the bloody hard work,at times! Love to hear from any drivers who knew of those companies I’ve mentioned.Bit of a long shot but can you remember Eddie Swales who ran livestock vehicles,think his yard was close to the cattle mart at Stockton.
Tyneside
Hi Tyneside, I remember Swales just, almost. It seems as if another life now, but we still had one cattle truck until about 1956 when I was about 8 or 9 and I used to ask my dad when I went with him to Darlington & Sedgefield Marts in the cattle truck, who the other ones belonged to and the little bit I remember of Swales were (maybe it was just one) they seemed to have painted it with whatever paint they had as it was a patchwork of colours,
The bit I remember best of Darlington Mart was the canteen and getting nice beef sandwiches. As for Sedgefield I remember asking my dad a few months before he died where the Mart had been, as I had arrived early for a funeral & had a walk round whilst waiting & could see no evidence it ever had existed.
Hi Castellon
Swales were still running about 3/4 wagons In the mid eighties, a mix of elderly Bisons and If IIRC a Sed Ak.
They used to do a lot for a fat stock buyer from Northallerton.
We pulled out of the livestock job in 1987 and I lost all contact with various hauliers after that.
Darlington and Sedgefield were marts we never visited, the only Durham mart we served was Bishop Auckland, the rest were Hexham, Tyneside ( Newcastle and Gateshead merged into one location) and Morpeth.
Where were you based when your Dad had the cattle truck ? My Grandmother was one of a large family from Hutton Henry and some of her siblings had farms in the Elwick area, I still have a cousin on a farm just off the A19 towards Trimdon.
Tyneside
tyneside:
Carl Williams:
tyneside:
Castellon:
I started in haulage back in the early ‘70’s.Worked for a company called Taylor’s of Teesside.Moved on to David Fox,BICC,Carlisle Bros,Econofreight,Stockton Haulage,Dart,and Whitfields,all amongst the firms I worked for.Retired in 2019,and miss it all!The lads,the comradeship,the laughs and even the bloody hard work,at times! Love to hear from any drivers who knew of those companies I’ve mentioned.Bit of a long shot but can you remember Eddie Swales who ran livestock vehicles,think his yard was close to the cattle mart at Stockton.
Tyneside
Hi Tyneside, I remember Swales just, almost. It seems as if another life now, but we still had one cattle truck until about 1956 when I was about 8 or 9 and I used to ask my dad when I went with him to Darlington & Sedgefield Marts in the cattle truck, who the other ones belonged to and the little bit I remember of Swales were (maybe it was just one) they seemed to have painted it with whatever paint they had as it was a patchwork of colours,
The bit I remember best of Darlington Mart was the canteen and getting nice beef sandwiches. As for Sedgefield I remember asking my dad a few months before he died where the Mart had been, as I had arrived early for a funeral & had a walk round whilst waiting & could see no evidence it ever had existed.Hi Castellon
Swales were still running about 3/4 wagons In the mid eighties, a mix of elderly Bisons and If IIRC a Sed Ak.
They used to do a lot for a fat stock buyer from Northallerton.We pulled out of the livestock job in 1987 and I lost all contact with various hauliers after that.
Darlington and Sedgefield were marts we never visited, the only Durham mart we served was Bishop Auckland, the rest were Hexham, Tyneside ( Newcastle and Gateshead merged into one location) and Morpeth.
Where were you based when your Dad had the cattle truck ? My Grandmother was one of a large family from Hutton Henry and some of her siblings had farms in the Elwick area, I still have a cousin on a farm just off the A19 towards Trimdon.Tyneside
Hi Tyneside
My Grandfather started in 1919 and bought his first T model Ford 1920 & started carrying cattle amongst many things in the nineteen twenties. He, like many others had platform bodies that took drop sides which were made to slot the cattle body into. When the war started in 1939 my dad would be 17-18 and just started driving and at that time my Grandfather had 5 Bedford 2 Tonners all used for cattle as well as other traffic and a Morris Commercial furniture van, our first van of so many. Before that they did removals on platforms & roped & sheeted. Apparently a platform could be converted into a cattle truck within 20 minutes and often took a load into the mart came back to Spennymoor & stripped down & used as a platform before back into a cattle truck to load & take to butchers which in those days there were so many
Aparently we did Darlington, The Gaurnless at Bishop Auckland Sedgefield Stockton Barnard Caste and Newcastle but they must have only sent 1 vehicle to Newcastle. My dad told of pulling out of Darlington with a load of sheep at 7.00Pm when not speaking to my grandfather, & given instructions what he had to do on his own in the rain when he was not strong enough to lift the ramp or whatever it was called. Stopping at Coatham Munderville to check all the sheep were still standing and not getting suffercated soaking wet he got back into the cab and cried that his father could treat him as he did.
Dad also told the story of a side gate breaking and still having cattle on to deliver near Castle Eden he backed alongside a wall on the side of the broken gate so there was no risk, and later found himself in Castle Eden Magistrates court & fined. A woman Magistrate said it was disgraceful behaviour and as he left the dock he heard her say What are these Gates?’ Like he said 'What else could he do there was still cattle on the truck & he couldn’t leave them on.
When the Ministry of food stopped butchers slaughtering their own we went onto delivering meat from Stockton Slaughterhouse to the local butchers and my dad claimed carrying hind quarters made him bow legged. When eventually he went into the Army where he did 9 months before returning to run the business after my Grandfather had had a heart attack, he said the Army was the first holiday he ever had.
After the war & butchers were allowed to slaughter their own again we had an O model Bedford cattle truck along with by then, an all van fleet and thats were I now a 73 tear old have slight memories. Dad told hated the cattle business as it was very difficult to get drivers willing to work such long hard hours so he often got lumbered and getting farmers to pay was impossible as they pleaded povity and was so pleased to be rid when he woke one morning & decided to sell the cattle truck and replace with another van and we then had only vans.
However till his dying days he told stories of the cattle trucks including chasing a bull through the front doors of Binns on Darlington High row through the make-up counters and out through a side door. Women shoppers were screaming he said.
Also my mother was with him on one occasion when she had a reminder on Radio 4 when a chap was being interviewed from the Milk Marketing Board at Durham about an incident that happened in the forties when they were experimenting with artificial incimidation. My mother was with my dad in the cattle truck (They were probably courting at the time) and they had picked up a prize bull and were taking it to the Milk marketing Board and as they were travelling they heard breaking wood in the cattle truck. Dad stopped once or twice to check & could see no legs sticking through the floor but when they got to the destination the bull had put all the floor out apart from four bits on which it was standing. They had to slide boards into enable them to get it out. A few days later they had to get a marksman down from Brancepeth Army camp just up the road to shoot it as it had gone mad and it was this incident that was being recalled as my mother listened to the radio.
I am almost sure if you travel from Stocktonon Yarm Road towards Eaglescliffe just was you are about to cross the A68 (at that time there must have been a road junction there but Jennings Ford is the other side of A68 (if they’re still there). Before that junction Swales had a garage which would take about 2 vehicles there.
Anyway hope you are still well & avoiding this virus and like me fed up of the lock down Best wishes Carl
tyneside:
Carl Williams:
tyneside:
Castellon:
I started in haulage back in the early ‘70’s.Worked for a company called Taylor’s of Teesside.Moved on to David Fox,BICC,Carlisle Bros,Econofreight,Stockton Haulage,Dart,and Whitfields,all amongst the firms I worked for.Retired in 2019,and miss it all!The lads,the comradeship,the laughs and even the bloody hard work,at times! Love to hear from any drivers who knew of those companies I’ve mentioned.Bit of a long shot but can you remember Eddie Swales who ran livestock vehicles,think his yard was close to the cattle mart at Stockton.
Tyneside
Hi Tyneside, I remember Swales just, almost. It seems as if another life now, but we still had one cattle truck until about 1956 when I was about 8 or 9 and I used to ask my dad when I went with him to Darlington & Sedgefield Marts in the cattle truck, who the other ones belonged to and the little bit I remember of Swales were (maybe it was just one) they seemed to have painted it with whatever paint they had as it was a patchwork of colours,
The bit I remember best of Darlington Mart was the canteen and getting nice beef sandwiches. As for Sedgefield I remember asking my dad a few months before he died where the Mart had been, as I had arrived early for a funeral & had a walk round whilst waiting & could see no evidence it ever had existed.Hi Castellon
Swales were still running about 3/4 wagons In the mid eighties, a mix of elderly Bisons and If IIRC a Sed Ak.
They used to do a lot for a fat stock buyer from Northallerton.We pulled out of the livestock job in 1987 and I lost all contact with various hauliers after that.
Darlington and Sedgefield were marts we never visited, the only Durham mart we served was Bishop Auckland, the rest were Hexham, Tyneside ( Newcastle and Gateshead merged into one location) and Morpeth.
Where were you based when your Dad had the cattle truck ? My Grandmother was one of a large family from Hutton Henry and some of her siblings had farms in the Elwick area, I still have a cousin on a farm just off the A19 towards Trimdon.Tyneside
Hi Tyneside
My Grandfather started in 1919 and bought his first T model Ford 1920 & started carrying cattle amongst many things in the nineteen twenties. He, like many others had platform bodies that took drop sides which were made to slot the cattle body into. When the war started in 1939 my dad would be 17-18 and just started driving and at that time my Grandfather had 5 Bedford 2 Tonners and a Morris Commercial furniture van, our first van of so many. Before that they did removals on platforms & roped & sheeted. Apparently a platform could be converted into a cattle truck within 20 minutes and often took a load into the mart came back to Spennymoor & stripped down & used as a platform before back into a cattle truck to load & take to butchers which in those days there were so many
Aparently we did Darlington, The Gaurnless at Bishop Auckland Sedgefield Stockton Barnard Caste and Newcastle but they must have only sent 1 vehicle to Newcastle. My dad told of pulling out of Darlington with a load of sheep at 7.00Pm when not speaking to my grandfather, & given instructions what he had to do on his own in the rain when he was not strong enough to lift the ramp or whatever it was called. Stopping at Coatham Munderville to check all the sheep were still standing and not getting suffercated soaking wet he got back into the cab and cried that his father could treat him as he did.
Dad also told the story of a side gate breaking and still having cattle on to deliver near Castle Eden he backed alongside a wall on the side of the broken gate so there was no risk, and later found himself in Castle Eden Magistrates court & fined. A woman Magistrate said it was disgraceful behaviour and as he left the dock he heard her say What are these Gates?’ Like he said 'What else could he do there was still cattle on the truck & he couldn’t leave them on.
When the Ministry of food stopped butchers slaughtering their own we went onto delivering meat from Stockton Slaughterhouse to the local butchers and my dad claimed carrying hind quarters made him bow legged. When eventually he went into the Army where he did 9 months before returning to run the business after my Grandfather had had a heart attack, he said the Army was the first holiday he ever had.
After the war & butchers were allowed to slaughter their own again we had an O model Bedford cattle truck along with by then, an all van fleet and thats were I now a 73 tear old have slight memories. Dad told hated the cattle business as it was very difficult to get drivers willing to work such long hard hours so he often got lumbered and getting farmers to pay was impossible as they pleaded povity and was so pleased to be rid when he woke one morning & decided to sell the cattle truck and replace with another van and we then had only vans.
However till his dying days he told stories of the cattle trucks including chasing a bull through the front doors of Binns on Darlington High row through the make-up counters and out through a side door. Women shoppers were screaming he said.
Also my mother was with him on one occasion when she had a reminder on Radio 4 when a chap was being interviewed from the Milk Marketing Board at Durham about an incident that happened in the forties when they were experimenting with artificial incimidation. My mother was with my dad in the cattle truck (They were probably courting at the time) and they had picked up a prize bull and were taking it to the Milk marketing Board and as they were travelling they heard breaking wood in the cattle truck. Dad stopped once or twice to check & could see no legs sticking through the floor but when they got to the destination the bull had put all the floor out apart from four bits on which it was standing. They had to slide boards into enable them to get it out. A few days later they had to get a marksman down from Brancepeth Army camp just up the road to shoot it as it had gone mad and it was this incident that was being recalled as my mother listened to the radio.
I am almost sure if you travel from Stocktonon Yarm Road towards Eaglescliffe just was you are about to cross the A68 (at that time there must have been a road junction there but Jennings Ford is the other side of A68 (if they’re still there). Before that junction Swales had a garage which would take about 2 vehicles there.
Anyway hope you are still well & avoiding this virus and like me fed up of the lock down Best wishes Carl
tyneside:
Carl Williams:
tyneside:
Castellon:
I started in haulage back in the early ‘70’s.Worked for a company called Taylor’s of Teesside.Moved on to David Fox,BICC,Carlisle Bros,Econofreight,Stockton Haulage,Dart,and Whitfields,all amongst the firms I worked for.Retired in 2019,and miss it all!The lads,the comradeship,the laughs and even the bloody hard work,at times! Love to hear from any drivers who knew of those companies I’ve mentioned.Bit of a long shot but can you remember Eddie Swales who ran livestock vehicles,think his yard was close to the cattle mart at Stockton.
Tyneside
Hi Tyneside, I remember Swales just, almost. It seems as if another life now, but we still had one cattle truck until about 1956 when I was about 8 or 9 and I used to ask my dad when I went with him to Darlington & Sedgefield Marts in the cattle truck, who the other ones belonged to and the little bit I remember of Swales were (maybe it was just one) they seemed to have painted it with whatever paint they had as it was a patchwork of colours,
The bit I remember best of Darlington Mart was the canteen and getting nice beef sandwiches. As for Sedgefield I remember asking my dad a few months before he died where the Mart had been, as I had arrived early for a funeral & had a walk round whilst waiting & could see no evidence it ever had existed.Hi Castellon
Swales were still running about 3/4 wagons In the mid eighties, a mix of elderly Bisons and If IIRC a Sed Ak.
They used to do a lot for a fat stock buyer from Northallerton.We pulled out of the livestock job in 1987 and I lost all contact with various hauliers after that.
Darlington and Sedgefield were marts we never visited, the only Durham mart we served was Bishop Auckland, the rest were Hexham, Tyneside ( Newcastle and Gateshead merged into one location) and Morpeth.
Where were you based when your Dad had the cattle truck ? My Grandmother was one of a large family from Hutton Henry and some of her siblings had farms in the Elwick area, I still have a cousin on a farm just off the A19 towards Trimdon.Tyneside
Hi Tyneside
My Grandfather started in 1919 and bought his first T model Ford 1920 & started carrying cattle amongst many things in the nineteen twenties. He, like many others had platform bodies that took drop sides which were made to slot the cattle body into. When the war started in 1939 my dad would be 17-18 and just started driving and at that time my Grandfather had 5 Bedford 2 Tonners and a Morris Commercial furniture van, our first van of so many. Before that they did removals on platforms & roped & sheeted. Apparently a platform could be converted into a cattle truck within 20 minutes and often took a load into the mart came back to Spennymoor & stripped down & used as a platform before back into a cattle truck to load & take to butchers which in those days there were so many
Aparently we did Darlington, The Gaurnless at Bishop Auckland Sedgefield Stockton Barnard Caste and Newcastle but they must have only sent 1 vehicle to Newcastle. My dad told of pulling out of Darlington with a load of sheep at 7.00Pm when not speaking to my grandfather, & given instructions what he had to do on his own in the rain when he was not strong enough to lift the ramp or whatever it was called. Stopping at Coatham Munderville to check all the sheep were still standing and not getting suffercated soaking wet he got back into the cab and cried that his father could treat him as he did.
Dad also told the story of a side gate breaking and still having cattle on to deliver near Castle Eden he backed alongside a wall on the side of the broken gate so there was no risk, and later found himself in Castle Eden Magistrates court & fined. A woman Magistrate said it was disgraceful behaviour and as he left the dock he heard her say What are these Gates?’ Like he said 'What else could he do there was still cattle on the truck & he couldn’t leave them on.
When the Ministry of food stopped butchers slaughtering their own we went onto delivering meat from Stockton Slaughterhouse to the local butchers and my dad claimed carrying hind quarters made him bow legged. When eventually he went into the Army where he did 9 months before returning to run the business after my Grandfather had had a heart attack, he said the Army was the first holiday he ever had.
After the war & butchers were allowed to slaughter their own again we had an O model Bedford cattle truck along with by then, an all van fleet and thats were I now a 73 tear old have slight memories. Dad told hated the cattle business as it was very difficult to get drivers willing to work such long hard hours so he often got lumbered and getting farmers to pay was impossible as they pleaded povity and was so pleased to be rid when he woke one morning & decided to sell the cattle truck and replace with another van and we then had only vans.
However till his dying days he told stories of the cattle trucks including chasing a bull through the front doors of Binns on Darlington High row through the make-up counters and out through a side door. Women shoppers were screaming he said.
Also my mother was with him on one occasion when she had a reminder on Radio 4 when a chap was being interviewed from the Milk Marketing Board at Durham about an incident that happened in the forties when they were experimenting with artificial incimidation. My mother was with my dad in the cattle truck (They were probably courting at the time) and they had picked up a prize bull and were taking it to the Milk marketing Board and as they were travelling they heard breaking wood in the cattle truck. Dad stopped once or twice to check & could see no legs sticking through the floor but when they got to the destination the bull had put all the floor out apart from four bits on which it was standing. They had to slide boards into enable them to get it out. A few days later they had to get a marksman down from Brancepeth Army camp just up the road to shoot it as it had gone mad and it was this incident that was being recalled as my mother listened to the radio.
I am almost sure if you travel from Stocktonon Yarm Road towards Eaglescliffe just was you are about to cross the A68 (at that time there must have been a road junction there but Jennings Ford is the other side of A68 (if they’re still there). Before that junction Swales had a garage which would take about 2 vehicles there.
Anyway hope you are still well & avoiding this virus and like me fed up of the lock down Best wishes Carl
Lawrence Dunbar:
This young lad Ben was born to be a Foden man, Regards Larry.0
With you on hand to teach him the 12speed box he’ll do alright Larry . We have to keep the old skills alive !
rigsby:
Lawrence Dunbar:
This young lad Ben was born to be a Foden manWith you on hand to teach him the 12speed box he’ll do alright Larry . We have to keep the old skills alive !
I’m back, lads- fixed the machinery. Gas bottle was empty!
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Hi Castellon
Swales were still running about 3/4 wagons In the mid eighties, a mix of elderly Bisons and If IIRC a Sed Ak.
They used to do a lot for a fat stock buyer from Northallerton.
We pulled out of the livestock job in 1987 and I lost all contact with various hauliers after that.
Darlington and Sedgefield were marts we never visited, the only Durham mart we served was Bishop Auckland, the rest were Hexham, Tyneside ( Newcastle and Gateshead merged into one location) and Morpeth.
Where were you based when your Dad had the cattle truck ? My Grandmother was one of a large family from Hutton Henry and some of her siblings had farms in the Elwick area, I still have a cousin on a farm just off the A19 towards Trimdon.
Tyneside
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Hi Tyneside
My Grandfather started in 1919 and bought his first T model Ford 1920 & started carrying cattle amongst many things in the nineteen twenties. He, like many others had platform bodies that took drop sides which were made to slot the cattle body into. When the war started in 1939 my dad would be 17-18 and just started driving and at that time my Grandfather had 5 Bedford 2 Tonners and a Morris Commercial furniture van, our first van of so many. Before that they did removals on platforms & roped & sheeted. Apparently a platform could be converted into a cattle truck within 20 minutes and often took a load into the mart came back to Spennymoor & stripped down & used as a platform before back into a cattle truck to load & take to butchers which in those days there were so many
Aparently we did Darlington, The Gaurnless at Bishop Auckland Sedgefield Stockton Barnard Caste and Newcastle but they must have only sent 1 vehicle to Newcastle. My dad told of pulling out of Darlington with a load of sheep at 7.00Pm when not speaking to my grandfather, & given instructions what he had to do on his own in the rain when he was not strong enough to lift the ramp or whatever it was called. Stopping at Coatham Munderville to check all the sheep were still standing and not getting suffercated soaking wet he got back into the cab and cried that his father could treat him as he did.
Dad also told the story of a side gate breaking and still having cattle on to deliver near Castle Eden he backed alongside a wall on the side of the broken gate so there was no risk, and later found himself in Castle Eden Magistrates court & fined. A woman Magistrate said it was disgraceful behaviour and as he left the dock he heard her say What are these Gates?’ Like he said 'What else could he do there was still cattle on the truck & he couldn’t leave them on.
When the Ministry of food stopped butchers slaughtering their own we went onto delivering meat from Stockton Slaughterhouse to the local butchers and my dad claimed carrying hind quarters made him bow legged. When eventually he went into the Army where he did 9 months before returning to run the business after my Grandfather had had a heart attack, he said the Army was the first holiday he ever had.
After the war & butchers were allowed to slaughter their own again we had an O model Bedford cattle truck along with by then, an all van fleet and thats were I now a 73 tear old have slight memories. Dad told hated the cattle business as it was very difficult to get drivers willing to work such long hard hours so he often got lumbered and getting farmers to pay was impossible as they pleaded povity and was so pleased to be rid when he woke one morning & decided to sell the cattle truck and replace with another van and we then had only vans.
However till his dying days he told stories of the cattle trucks including chasing a bull through the front doors of Binns on Darlington High row through the make-up counters and out through a side door. Women shoppers were screaming he said.
Also my mother was with him on one occasion when she had a reminder on Radio 4 when a chap was being interviewed from the Milk Marketing Board at Durham about an incident that happened in the forties when they were experimenting with artificial incimidation. My mother was with my dad in the cattle truck (They were probably courting at the time) and they had picked up a prize bull and were taking it to the Milk marketing Board and as they were travelling they heard breaking wood in the cattle truck. Dad stopped once or twice to check & could see no legs sticking through the floor but when they got to the destination the bull had put all the floor out apart from four bits on which it was standing. They had to slide boards into enable them to get it out. A few days later they had to get a marksman down from Brancepeth Army camp just up the road to shoot it as it had gone mad and it was this incident that was being recalled as my mother listened to the radio.
I am almost sure if you travel from Stocktonon Yarm Road towards Eaglescliffe just was you are about to cross the A68 (at that time there must have been a road junction there but Jennings Ford is the other side of A68 (if they’re still there). Before that junction Swales had a garage which would take about 2 vehicles there.
Anyway hope you are still well & avoiding this virus and like me fed up of the lock down Best wishes Carl
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Hi Carl
A lot of what you say sounds familiar to me, I can just remember cattle wagons having the rear ramp split vertically in two, there was no spring assistance and if the door was in one piece it would be too heavy to lift.
I was delivering a load of cattle to the slaughter house at Sunderland one day, the lairage man gave me the ok to drop the door but someone had left a gate open at the far end of the building and about four got out into the yard, we got three back but one got very excited and cleared two five bar gates and got onto the main road and headed straight into the Mill Garage at Fulwell, who at the time, were agents for Mercedes, fortunately it kept running and ended up in the old quarry at the back of the garage, we managed to keep it confined in there until a police marksmen turned up and solved its problems.
Great stuff once again Tyneside, The car is a 1923 reg , Its looks like a Morris 10, 
, Thanks for posting these, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Great stuff once again Tyneside, The car is a 1923 reg , Its looks like a Morris 10,
I’d have said Morris 8 but I’ll stand corrected 
Scania 81 unit being rescued from Stanhope Ford.
bumper:
larry one for you found on another site
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Hi Bumper, I have this in my collection A Corgi model, Jimmy Blackburn drove RJR 348 & I had RJR 349. Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
bumper:
larry one for you found on another siteHi Bumper, I have this in my collection A Corgi model, Jimmy Blackburn drove RJR 348 & I had RJR 349. Regards Larry.
