malmic:
Can’t speak for Robert but i’m awake happy to read all your comments.
Good to know that Mick, I imagined that with all the white stuff hanging around (here at least) you would have hopped on a big bird and drifted off to somewhere hot. Don’t stay awake on my behalf either, I write just as much twaddle as I used to speak so you wont be missing much if you nod off!!! 
Still trying to think of more locations but nothing much springs to mind. Slinter Corner on the Via Gellia I guess?
Pete.
Coldra roundabout, or motorway interchange, near Newport South Wales, has grown into a small town with hotels and other business springing up all around it. Good for business being close to the M4 and other major routes I suppose.
Cheers Dave.
I suppose Spaghetti Junction would be hard to place on a map nowadays with so many slip roads everywhere.
Polo mint roundabout A75.
How about ‘The Whirlies’ East Kilbride?
Surely can only be said with a Scottish accent!
John.
how about the dumbers , a54 buxton to congleton , never understood how it got it’s name . 13 bends bakewell to baslow , gobbling mountain whaley to kettleshulme , i’ll let you guess how that one got it’s name . dave
:Bush Bends on the A69 between Hexham and Haydon Bridge, now long bypassed, the road was very narrow and winding with the River Tyne waiting for the unwary to drop into (eastbound).
This was usually where you met a Cawthorne Sinclair motor with a Cat 'dozer with a wide blade!! 
. Another spot was Whitechapel Sawmill also A69 between Haydon Bridge and Bardon Mill near the Monkey Puzzle Tree. I once saw a bread van swerve up the bankside and tipover onto a car coming up the hill. The car roof was flattened!!! Luckily it was in the days before compulsory seatbelts and the driver was pushed into the well on the passenger side. We got him out then waited hours 'til the road was cleared. Regards Kev.
kevmac47:
:Bush Bends on the A69 between Hexham and Haydon Bridge, now long bypassed, the road was very narrow and winding with the River Tyne waiting for the unwary to drop into (eastbound).
This was usually where you met a Cawthorne Sinclair motor with a Cat 'dozer with a wide blade!!
You’ve just reminded me of an incident on the A590 Levens bridge to barrow road - there’s a roundabout there now, so I can claim it’s ‘on thread’, although to be fair in the seventies it was a junction.
As you came into Lindale village, the road went straight on, with actually a ‘jink’ to the right in front of the Coop to barrow, or you turned left for grange.
The nightly ‘Wonderloaf’ delivery was normally a BMC. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the usual lorry, so they substituted a Ford.
Most drivers on here will immediately understand the significance. The BMC had a hard, unforgiving suspension. The ford was a much more relaxed affair!
The driver approached the bottom of Lindale hill and changed down, accelerated and swung hard right on the steering to attack the steep slope. His usual drive, the BMC, stayed upright. The Ford, being a softer sprung cab, leaned heavily over to the left.
The driver panicked and straightened the steering to remove the lean. The Ford straightened, but made an uninvited entry to the Coop through the front window!
No sandwiches in Barrow that day!
John
windrush:
Dan Punchard:
malmic:
How about cow s**t canyon on the Uttoxeter- Stafford rd.?Good one mick ,that’s my cousins in laws farm .
Is it still as bad Dan, haven’t travelled that way for 10+ years? Oh and who woke Mick up, and where has his sidekick 1970 Commer been hiding eh?
Pete.
I’m still here Pete, I’m a big believer in “if you’ve nothing constructive to say then say nothing”
I look on here occasionally but aint posted for a while so I thought I’d better reply so you know I’m still here, I’ve put you a few pictures on the photo forum so you can see how I’ve been wasting my time lately.
Dan Punchard:
Roberto will be igniting the 1970s computer ,he’ll probably post tomorrow ,unless he’s in a anti truck face mood !!!
I’m waiting for an E-mail confirming my next big contract, curtainsider all polished inside & out, trolley tyres all inflated, blankets all ironed & folded, Shipton’s put on hold, cancellation fee invoice growing by the day, I’ll just keep stoking the fire until I’m told otherwise.
anybody remember tonys at grantham, the roundabout has gone now, but tonys used to be a transport café well before it got turned into a services, memories they are flooding back to me now gallowbank,windyhill,death valley,
Marconi roundabout in Chelmsford, when the factory was still operating.
cherry blossom corner archwayA1 crittle corner A20
raymundo:
Marconi roundabout in Chelmsford, when the factory was still operating.
I always called it the Britvic roundabout
1970commer:
I’m still here Pete, I’m a big believer in “if you’ve nothing constructive to say then say nothing”I look on here occasionally but aint posted for a while so I thought I’d better reply so you know I’m still here, I’ve put you a few pictures on the photo forum so you can see how I’ve been wasting my time lately.
Good to know you are still around Rob, if only constructive comments were posted on this forum we would still be on page one! 
Might catch you (and Dan) at a show this summer, missed you last year but your luck will run out eventually. 
Pete.
there was Red House on the old A1
cheers Johnnie
There’s the Black Cat-A1/A421 Roxton, (doesn’t the Cat keep getting nicked !) roadworks on it at the moment.
Five Ways at Barton Mills A11 & the famous Hanger Lane Gyratory (how many of us have sat queuing around that one ?)
Oh ! & that huge one around ‘Longdoom’ called the M25 !!!
What about the roundabout ,jesus how long has that been there…some parts of BELGIUM in the 1980s the priorities changed ,like ,if you were on the roundabout, you had to give way to traffic coming on to the roundabout from your left. being right hand drive was hairy at times.
5 ways at mildenhall, then 4 ways on the roundabout on the 1303 on the A11 with the cafe that had all the grease hanging down the wall from the extractor? The Comfort? I always called the one on the A1 at baldock Jacks Hill, Tony’s - I never went in there. I called the one on the A1 near the Angel cafe the parachute cos of the filling station canopy a few yards north. I don’t remember them all, but the North and South circular was well known by its features eg. Hangar lane, Gant’s hill,Staples Corner? What was the pubs called that named all the roundabouts on the Southend Arterial? Good stuff this, a right memory trigger. Away from the roundabouts, for the naughty boys, The Jungle on Leith Walk, The Long Bar in Manchester,
the Custom House in Cardiff, the Red Lion, Aldgate, The Juniper - nobody under 40 will have been in that one. Red Lodge, Bed time, the brain has run off with me. I gave up driving in '75 so how many do you guys remember? Jim.
