Thanks to Buzzer, servo88 and lurpak for the photos 
also others for the links and info .
Stories From the Road Museum AUSTRALIA
I’ve joined this public group on FB some great old pics and yarns.
Oily
Looks like the old Woolwich ferry
Buzzer:
Buzzer
That looks like a wartime shot Buzzer
I have to say that looks like quite a good job to me (apart from the bull bar!)
Scroll down for my reaction:
Dennis Javelin:
Looks like the old Woolwich ferry
Spot on Dennis.
I noticed the Bedford T.K. with the F.F. insignia which would have belonged to F. Francis Steel Drums.
I used to back load 45-gallon drums from Francis’s for all placed ‘up North’ in the early seventies and I always thought that their place was in Lewisham on the South Circular Road, the A2. 
I have just had a Google and it seems that their main place was in Woolwich and that they were making tin boxes for the army back in World War 1.
Dennis Javelin:
Looks like the old Woolwich ferry
Used to love getting the Woolwich ferry, it does count as international doesn’t it 
Kempston:
Dennis Javelin:
Looks like the old Woolwich ferryUsed to love getting the Woolwich ferry, it does count as international doesn’t it
Well I thought it did, in my very early days of lorry driving.
Is it still running btw? Must be almost 60 years since I was last on it.
Spardo:
Kempston:
Dennis Javelin:
Looks like the old Woolwich ferryUsed to love getting the Woolwich ferry, it does count as international doesn’t it
Well I thought it did, in my very early days of lorry driving.
Is it still running btw? Must be almost 60 years since I was last on it.
It must still be running because I often hear on LBC radio that it is “not running due to technical difficulties”. So I guess they are getting old and unreliable!
Kempston:
Dennis Javelin:
Looks like the old Woolwich ferryUsed to love getting the Woolwich ferry, it does count as international doesn’t it
No duty free though Buzzer
Dipster:
that it is “not running due to technical difficulties”. So I guess they are getting old and unreliable!
Wiki says the boats were replaced in 2019 with 2 new ones built in Poland.
The previous (3) were built in Dundee in 1963, so 56 years of service, they might have been a bit rattly!
Kempston:
Dennis Javelin:
Looks like the old Woolwich ferryUsed to love getting the Woolwich ferry, it does count as international doesn’t it
Of course! I often used to do 25 tonnes of sugar from Tate & Lyle Silvertown to Andorra. I always used to say that the Woolage Ferry was my first leg ‘over the water’ and that the Dover-Calais was the next one.
Looks familiar!
ERF-NGC-European:
Kempston:
Dennis Javelin:
Looks like the old Woolwich ferryUsed to love getting the Woolwich ferry, it does count as international doesn’t it
Of course! I often used to do 25 tonnes of sugar from Tate & Lyle Silvertown to Andorra. I always used to say that the Woolage Ferry was my first leg ‘over the water’ and that the Dover-Calais was the next one.
Thanks for confirming my thoughts, I can now claim to have done international work.
Franglais:
Dipster:
that it is “not running due to technical difficulties”. So I guess they are getting old and unreliable!Wiki says the boats were replaced in 2019 with 2 new ones built in Poland.
The previous (3) were built in Dundee in 1963, so 56 years of service, they might have been a bit rattly!
And the new ones are suffering “technical difficulties” already? Wonder if they will last 56 years then…
who remembers the snack bar on the north side, done a cracking sausage meat cob while you were waiting late 80’s…iirc…
