hiya…cheers for that info Pete.
John
windrush:
rastone:
Ask the lads about who solld them but a bit of bad news I’m afraid as Dave has had a bad accident at his garage and was taken to Nottingham hospital by Hellicopter.Pelvis, ribs and and lung injuries.I think he’s going on alright but a long job I think.
Coming back to the cargo’s.Andrew Barker and Robert Hadfield bought a 26tonne each but Andrew converted some.I know he did John Waynes
I have got a photo pf Bob’s four wheeler VolvoTony
Yes Tony, I have been in the garage today and seen the car (a write off) and remains of the ramp, quite a mess and he was lucky to survive really. Going back to Cargos, Roy did his own I believe using a magnetic drill to re-site the back bogie. The Foden I had was done by the owner but it spoilt the truck, not as manouverable and too short for some paving machines, of course later on moving the bogie wasn’t required which was typical of Beurocoracy in changing tack part way through!
Dave should be at home now as he was hoping after he was measured up for a wheelchair
Tony
Pete.
Thank’s for that Tony, he made the front page of the Matlock Mercury at least! 
Pete.
As promised a rather poor pic of the GMC’s and Dodge’s at Ballidon quarry near the weighbridge. The offices are in the background. The Dodge’s were originally tractor units I believe and proved slightly top heavy! I feel sure that someone on the forum has a better copy of this, I remember the original photo on the wall of the General Managers office in Tilcon days.
Pete.
windrush:
As promised a rather poor pic of the GMC’s and Dodge’s at Ballidon quarry near the weighbridge. The offices are in the background. The Dodge’s were originally tractor units I believe and proved slightly top heavy! I feel sure that someone on the forum has a better copy of this, I remember the original photo on the wall of the General Managers office in Tilcon days.Pete.
Good.Any chance you could e-mail them as I might be able to crop the photo and perhaps clean it up.tone.val@talktalk.net
Tony
Can do Tony, will have to change computers though! Will do it later.
Pete.
Big daddy’s got some .
That Foden dumper was still there when I started John. It was used on the tarmac plants by then and was missing the cab door and a few other parts besides, that one was Gardner powered but those that came later had ■■■■■■■ 220/250 engines. It probably ended up on the quarry scrapheap. Before that they used Muir-Hill dumpers. Those other pics are after my time there, the new powders plant looks impressive though. I wouldn’t mind going back for a look around but the tar plants are now long gone so I reckon there isn’t much left to interest me now.
Pete.
Moose:
01I know these have been on before, Ballidon many moons ago!
The original quarry was top left in the upper photo, it later became the site of the top block plant. The large building lower left was still there when I left in 2002, it was one of the powder plant’s, but I think that the new plant has replaced the previous three plant’s.
When I started there in 1975 a lot of the plant was alongside the road up to Roystone Grange where the lay-by is/was and alongside the old weighbridge was the dust shed which was fed by dumpers tipping into a hopper by the fuel pumps opposite the bottom garage behind the hill top right. A conveyor ran at the rear of the garage but I can’t remember what that fed. On the hillside behind the garage were the original toilets, corrugated iron with a wooden bench with holes in and the ‘waste’ ran down the hillside, out of use by that time though! The present road into the quarry was just a dirt track for Land Rover’s etc and truck access was through where the wheel wash is/was now.
I remember Moose travelling with his Dad as a kid in Bedford’s and a D series Ford, makes me feel old now… 
Pete.
rastone:
windrush:
As promised a rather poor pic of the GMC’s and Dodge’s at Ballidon quarry near the weighbridge. The offices are in the background. The Dodge’s were originally tractor units I believe and proved slightly top heavy! I feel sure that someone on the forum has a better copy of this, I remember the original photo on the wall of the General Managers office in Tilcon days.Pete.
That’s better Dave, I tried several times to email it to Tony (Rastone) but it just keeps bouncing back. Thank you.
Pete.
windrush:
That’s better Dave, I tried several times to email it to Tony (Rastone) but it just keeps bouncing back. Thank you.Pete.
No problem Pete. I cropped it last night, but it kept showing the same uncropped pic, but when I posted it today it was OK.
Cheers Dave.
rastone:
I wonder who might be on this !
Answers on a postcard please addressed to Tony’s old pictures emporium, I bet Pikehall has never seen such a smart looking couple for years, must have been taken on a Sunday afternoon too, out of lime spreading season, for both of them to be dressed up.
Do I get a prize for my answer Tony?
1970commer:
rastone:
I wonder who might be on this !Answers on a postcard please addressed to Tony’s old pictures emporium, I bet Pikehall has never seen such a smart looking couple for years, must have been taken on a Sunday afternoon too, out of lime spreading season, for both of them to be dressed up.
Do I get a prize for my answer Tony?
Crikey, it’s Monica and Eric! Funny how you don’t recognize folk out of context isn’t it, I would have walked past them without a second glance. They did me a big favour 20+ years ago when my VW campervan was vandalised at Minninglow picnic site, we would have been in a right mess if they hadn’t lived locally and got us sorted. They got some mileage and graft out of that black Albion that they ran on lime out of Ballidon as well.
Pete.
windrush:
1970commer:
rastone:
I wonder who might be on this !Answers on a postcard please addressed to Tony’s old pictures emporium, I bet Pikehall has never seen such a smart looking couple for years, must have been taken on a Sunday afternoon too, out of lime spreading season, for both of them to be dressed up.
Do I get a prize for my answer Tony?Crikey, it’s Monica and Eric! Funny how you don’t recognize folk out of context isn’t it, I would have walked past them without a second glance. They did me a big favour 20+ years ago when my VW campervan was vandalised at Minninglow picnic site, we would have been in a right mess if they hadn’t lived locally and got us sorted. They got some mileage and graft out of that black Albion that they ran on lime out of Ballidon as well.
Pete.
Wasn’t his C.B. handle “Double Decker” because of the passengers he took.
It was taken at Arthur Tipper’s Lupin Farm show when it was only in one field.Those who don’t know I hoping to post some more info and pictures but Edwin’s away at the moment and I want to ask him if it’s all right to do so and including his motors but there will be quite a few cars involved but worth looking at.
Tony
windrush:
1970commer:
rastone:
I wonder who might be on this !Answers on a postcard please addressed to Tony’s old pictures emporium, I bet Pikehall has never seen such a smart looking couple for years, must have been taken on a Sunday afternoon too, out of lime spreading season, for both of them to be dressed up.
Do I get a prize for my answer Tony?Crikey, it’s Monica and Eric! Funny how you don’t recognize folk out of context isn’t it, I would have walked past them without a second glance. They did me a big favour 20+ years ago when my VW campervan was vandalised at Minninglow picnic site, we would have been in a right mess if they hadn’t lived locally and got us sorted. They got some mileage and graft out of that black Albion that they ran on lime out of Ballidon as well.
Pete.
By the way Pete I’ve managed to download the Ballidon photo I’ll Have another look at it but I’ll e-mail it to you.I don’t know why you couldn’t send it me. My ad.in case I didn’t give the right wording. tone.val@talktalk.net. I don’t want to get in to a photo competition
Tony
Hi Pete, yes here’s my copy but its from the same source as yours so nothing new there. Remember them coming through Cromford as a lad but by the time I started in Ballidon in 64 driving one of the late Gerry Applebys TKs ( no heater,always promised to fit one but never did )they had all gone. TKs and Traders if I remember plus all those TS3s and Dodges of W H Phillips. Great place to work out of in the 60s,all those lovely girls in the weighbridge
Mike.
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