I suppose I should really have started a new thread with this lot instead of highjacking poor old Glyn’s line.
Sorry, Moderator- must try harder!
Hi, Adie,
Yes, I remember Colin, but only to wave & flash the lights at really.
Nice to know Len’s kids are still in the game. I only knew Dave- the little’un was just growing up.
I suppose both Len & Dennis are long retired now? Give them my regards if you see them. If they read my rant they will know who it is.
Cheers
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Hello ■■■■ - yes will pass on the message to Dave next time i see him - Len and the boys were doing their own work up until about 4 years ago, from a yard in Ross - all ERF’s on bulk tipper work, but i guess thing’s got tight, so they packed in - still, returning to Glyns thread, i had a didn’t know him that well, but my ex in-laws were his and Pearl’s neighbours, but nevertheless many good stories were heard about him over the years. - i’m sure you will also know that the yard is now given over to a builders merchant, but with his son still having the small workshop for motor vehicle repairs.
Cheers
Adie
Didn’t know that Dennis was still clinging to the wreckage at Kilcot.
I worked in that same garage when I was about 17 or 18 years old. The guy who owned it then also owned the Post Office & village stores at Gorsley, about a mile toward Ross. I remember his name was Norman but can’t think of his surname. We had no mains electricity in Kilcot at that time, so the first job of the day was to start the generator, located in a corrugated shed at the rear of the workshop.
At the side of the genny was “THE HOLE”, where our personal liquid and solid waste was passed into an old grease bucket. This was emptied once a week into a hole dug in the field behind the garage.
Well it hasn’t changed that much then !! - the workshop is, im sure as you remember it, one long building, panes of glass to the roadside, galvanized tin roof, plenty of stuff kicking around outside, but the point being in this day and age, is that their still going and making a living - the yard now has a big shed on it, rougly where all the lorries parked and the side bit facing open fields has all the building materials in it - this is now run by gloster building supplies - busy, but a far cry from the days when glyn’s trucks were parked there, and not half as interesting. I can always remember as a kid, coming back from Gloucester, wanting to stop off and have a look at all the kit there,it always seemed like there was something going on worth watching !! . just like so many yards nowadays, they all seem to have been lost in time or given over to housing estates and the like. By the way, talking of Rex Organ’s yard - you may remember before him when there was a chap running it called, i think John Lane - certainly back in the late 60’s or so ■■
Cheers
Adie
Can’t say the name rings a bell.
well the surname is right, and i’m pretty sure he had a brother or maybe a relative who worked there, who was badly burned with a gas axe, when either working on or cutting up an old vehicle - this was before Rex had the yard, and yet again, another interesting place lost to housing !! - by the way, did John Margret have a brother by the name of Phill ■■ - if so, he worked with me also for a short while at royal mail Ross
Cheers
Adie
Where do/did you run your country music events Old ■■■■.I organised them up this way for 27 years.Still keep in touch through the Krazy Cowboy through Mr Dych.
Cheers Dave.
Adie,
NOW I recognise the Lane brothers. They lived just off to the right of the main road as you go through Gorsley toward Newent. I seem to remember the lad who was pretty badly burned worked as a fitter at BRS Mitcheldean for a while. They bought my father’s two-wheeled tractor complete with all the implements when he decided to put our fields down to grass. As it happens, I was “friendly” with a girl who lived just around the corner from the Lanes. But, of course, that’s another story!
Just remembered, Adie- it was BILL Lane, but can’t think what his brother was called. You’re correct about J.R’s brother being Phil- he’s the one who ran the farm.
Hi, Dave,
Country music nights were at various venues around Gloucestershire & South Herefordshire. The regular ones were at St Peters Social Club in Gloucester and for a few years I was at the Park Hall Ballroom, Wormelow once a month.
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Hi, Dave,
Country music nights were at various venues around Gloucestershire & South Herefordshire. The regular ones were at St Peters Social Club in Gloucester and for a few years I was at the Park Hall Ballroom, Wormelow once a month.
I organised them at Evenjobb for 27 years,did a few at New Radnor.Also a couple at Weobley.
We have been to Clehonger and the Richmond Club a few times as supporters,but mainly the likes of Richards Castle,Cawley Hall,Clungunford and Onibury were the regular places we supported.
Do see a lot from the Gloucester area in the Krazy Cowboy.
Cheers Dave.
Yes it is Bill Lane.Lives in Monmouth and drives a dumper in Stowfield Quarry.I posted some pictures of his when he drove for Rex Organ.There is a thread Rex Organ Of Hom Green.You can find them there.Regards Rich.
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Just remembered, Adie- it was BILL Lane, but can’t think what his brother was called. You’re correct about J.R’s brother being Phil- he’s the one who ran the farm.
Hi Retired Old Time ■■■■, Glad you dropped by to enthral us all with you’re stories of ‘The good old day’s’. I do enjoy reading stories of local people I know or people they know and the way it used to be, especially if it involves old lorries and the ‘old roads’. None of this flitting about on motorways with semi-auto’s or range-changers and cruise-control’s. Hope to read more of your travels…
Bless you, Paul. Glad to have entertained someone with the ramblings of an old man!
Just been watching Country File on the box where they were remembering the felling of the old oak tree outside the cricket ground at Speech House. Brought back a few memories. That old tree was amazing when it was in leaf during the summer. I used to make a detour just to have a look at it after loading charcoal just down the road.
Most of us are getting older on this forum Old ■■■■.Keep adding your memories and stories from your life in road haulage to any of the threads.Always good to hear from someone who has had a lifetime in road haulage.
Cheers Dave.
Mind you, if I’d listened to my schoolmaster, you wouldn’t be reading this!
I think my memory has been running away with me. In my original rant, I mentioned that Rex Organ’s Dodge lay down on the M50. Thinking about it more, I reckon that it was more likely to have been an ERF. The Dodge came after that, I believe.
I remember when Glyn used to do a bit for Andy Lee at Redmarley, one of the few that would actually do some work. There was always someone sat drinking tea when you got back, but they wouldn’t want to pop into Ledbury or Gloucester to load. Days that won’t be repeated, Happily…
Forgive me for hijacking this thread and dragging it back to the front page after all this time, but I remembered that there was mention of one of my old mates, Len Criddle of Weston under Penyard. Sad to say that Len has recently passed away- more details on the Forest of Dean Hauliers site on Facebook.