Hi boys
Im I right in thinking there is a Shepards on Liverpool dooks where they load the boats for export?
Regards Keith
Desert driverâŚYou may be right i doânt think that scrap yard is in Manchester anymore,I picked some parts up near their about 6 months
ago and i remember looking as i came past.I have a story about nipping in that yard to check the weight of a 19 ton container.The weigh
bridge man told me to get off his bridge quickley.The box had come from Hull and was going less than a mile down the road.We was only on
4 axels in those days and i would of needed about seven.
John
dessert driver:
Hi boys
Im I right in thinking there is a Shepards on Liverpool dooks where they load the boats for export?Regards Keith
Donât know if there is now Keith but there was for years, I have tipped many a load in there.
cheers
John.
Hi Andrew ,hi keith
Keith first yes they did Shephards did have some thing at the docks in Liverpool but I didnât go there.Apparently they had ther own ship too !!Andrew yes i went to the scap yard at Rochdale it was the same firm as the one in Rochdale . After about a month of doing nights for Joints Alun said he had got a special job for me !! My job was to tip in shotton , Widnes , north west etc then go too load scrap for joints at Shephards in Manchester. Billy, I canât remember the girl that worked for joints and a few more Welsh drivers came there. It was mostly for the Shrewsbury drivers. , some times the day drivers but mostly the night drivers. I even had a key too get in there so after I had tipped at Blackburn I could get in there have a nip before I started loading the scap on the trailers.It was a â â â â â â place when it was dry there was dust every where and when it was wet it was a bog !! But the people there was nice and I got on well with them. I donât know if the place is still there now it was in Ardwick about a mile from Manchester city centre.
Tony
Can any one tell me If Shephards are still going in either Rochdale , Manchester or Liverpool ?
Mercman123âŚI have just had a look on google earth and there dosânt seem much is going on at Manchester yard.I think you can see a machine
but thats all and a couple of small piles(they could be bricks).I never went to the Rochdale yard so not shaw where to look.When i was
doing scrap it was from Shotton (which is about 3 miles from where i live now)to Tinsley park⌠locals around Sheffield (Walter Hesslewood)
and 3 loads of cast a week to Bangor, That put me back into Shotton .I lived in Leek so i was home every night that job lasted 3 years.
John
mercman123:
Can any one tell me If Shephards are still going in either Rochdale , Manchester or Liverpool ?
itâs my understanding that they along with scrap giant giant cooperâs and several others all became emr,or european metal recycling to give itâs full title.i donât think any of sheperds former yards are still in use?
regards andrew
Ok thanks John and Andrew. Its been 14 years since I was up there so Iâm not surprised that they have gone or have been taken over. I was there for 2 years,sometimes it was good sometimes bad .
I have a few more pictures if you want.
some more
the next pic was of terry the manager he was a good bloke
hiya,
Proper driver boiler suit and a Woodbine, bet he knows the job.
thanks harry long retired.
No you wouldnât think so he was the manager at Manchester not a driver ! But he was a good fair bloke
i borrowed this image from my mate bubblemanâs brilliant scrapbook memories.thought iâd post it for dai âcapâ davies who lives in tondu,dai remembers williams and griffiths before he went on his own many years ago.i know that dai looks on trucknet regularly and he has kindly promised me some old photos.happy new year all.
tdw 120s one of glyn s. johnâs many f88âs.in feb. 2000 i bought the remains of this f88 for parts my f88 restoration of gfc 500n.
one of south walesâ smartest large fleets is that of gerry jones.
another on loan from bubbleman.
Where was the photo of Ronnie Evans Merc taken Paul?
a sentinel ? steamer.seen in the cab is david a. davies or dai cap as many of his friends and fellow hauliers and drivers know him.dai as previousley mentioned has kindly given me a disc containing photos of some long gone south wales hauliers.
d.david and sons later became blue line transport tondu.
w.hall were i am told (i canât remember them) a large concern,based at heol-y-cyw,near bridgend.they ran everything from artics to tippers.they sold out to joint motorways around 1967/68.