Anyone remember Tucker’s Brewery bottom of Gateshead High St ■■? Would be all hand ball back then !!!
Clark Taylor has been mentioned before on this thread. They would keep a six wheeler going all week delivering coke over to the West.
Cheers Tyneside
Hargreaves Quarries. Used to have three or four 4 wheelers working every day out of Urpeth Quarry. Pockerly Farm is further over the hill from the quarry towards Beamish. I think there was some sand or gravel extraction going on.
Great stuff, Tyneside. Regards Larry.
RHA membership Cerificate and letter when my Grandfather joined in 1934.
Looks like Bedford had their own insurance scheme for drivers in the thirties.
tyneside:
Hargreaves Quarries. Used to have three or four 4 wheelers working every day out of Urpeth Quarry. Pockerly Farm is further over the hill from the quarry towards Beamish. I think there was some sand or gravel extraction going on.
Hargreaves clearwaste who had orange wagons based in Birtley had the landfill at Urpeth in the 80s.That was a sand pit along with a lot of the land over there.Hargreaves had 8 wheel roll on roll off skip trucks and some tankers.Biffa took the depot over after them.
If my memorie is right Im sure Birtley Brick Co used the sand from there , as well as Sand from Blaydon [Tilcons] Barkers Transport has a 6 wheeler tipper Sedatki I think used to do it. Regards Larry.
hi lads, i can remember tucker brewery, unfortunately they and a few other small breweries where swallowed up by the newcastle brewery,who promptly closed them all down, sad day for anyone who enjoyed a descent pint of bitter, 
bumper
I know Ive posted these ERFs before, but as they belonged to my great uncle Isaac Smiles. [Smiles for Miles] can anyone tell me anything about West Tyne Gravel ? & where it was , I think it may have been near Acomb, Im sure that is the area. Regards Larry. [Lawrence Smiles Dunbar].
DJ2353:
Mootlaw Quarry.
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What year are we looking here Moot Law has been running a Long time, but of course has now been mothbald ? this was a great shock to the the hauliers who were running out of there, I myself did a bit out of there & I must admit getting paid every 7 days was a bit of a bonus, but Im refering to the 80/90s. I have had work from firms that kept us waiting for 3 months , before we got paid, Bobbing Rastards is what I call them, a lot of these robbers a the cause of hard working haulage firms going bust, luckily we came out on top. Regards Larry
Larry these photos are from Feb and June 2010.
The top quarry is full of water. There are stock piles under the water.
Do you remember any of the old ARC drivers who worked out of Mootlaw? Ernie Johnston,Tow Chain (Joe Nixon) Albert Adamson.
David
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I am right in thinking that Jimmy Hunter works for RTH. Sure that is where he went…never seen him in a while…
hi toonheed, yes jimmy hunter works at R-T-H LUBBERS, this is the motor he’s driving at the moment,bumper
DJ2353:
Larry these photos are from Feb and June 2010.
The top quarry is full of water. There are stock piles under the water.
Do you remember any of the old ARC drivers who worked out of Mootlaw? Ernie Johnston,Tow Chain (Joe Nixon) Albert Adamson. Yea I remember them, Albert lived along the Street from me [RIP], Canny memories from the old days, Regards Larry.David
From the same stable, This one was an Ex Dobsons of Edinburgh motors , the body came off a 6 wheeler Foden with a few modifications done to fit the Atki. Regards Larry.
Hi Colin, yes am working at RTH. Been there over 7 years now, been on this site since last year but this is the first time i have replied on it. normally i give marcus or bumper my photos to scan and post, still have more in loft that havent seen the light of day in many a year! as you can tell by the spelling the boiler is typing this for me… i will have a go some time. every time i go thro the tunnel never see you now, that office must have a good heater? if yr passing gis a knock, jimmy
jim hunter:
Hi Colin, yes am working at RTH. Been there over 7 years now, been on this site since last year but this is the first time i have replied on it. normally i give marcus or bumper my photos to scan and post, still have more in loft that havent seen the light of day in many a year! as you can tell by the spelling the boiler is typing this for me… i will have a go some time. every time i go thro the tunnel never see you now, that office must have a good heater? if yr passing gis a knock, jimmy
We are not an English class btw 
so dont really matter bout the spelling although some people do get a bit upity but that is normally on other parts ( i use a spell checker as cant spell 
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