Back in the day

[Kidds]

Only 2000.

Yes, but 2000 proper sized 10p pieces. Two shillings or a florin were still quite acceptable.

 

[Muck Spreader]

A proper busy pub back then. Was told the pool tables used to rake in £200/week, that was an awful lot of 10p pieces!

Half of them were probably mine

 

[Muck Spreader]

I had a purple fizzy, and was envious of my mates Garelli. Tried two up on mine, with my brother. We leaned too much on first corner and fell off. He was a year younger and only had a pushbike, so we used to tie him behind on a rope.
I soon moved onto an Austin 1300, then a 1600 Capri!

I also traded in my 1300 Dolly for a 1600 Capri fairly quickly.

 

[Old dog]

No ones mentioned the shady oak or Bickerton poacher yet !!! Dink international on the turn tables ,wow what a DJ sometimes his records were nearly in fashion....

 

[Philip Watkins]

Yes, but 2000 proper sized 10p pieces. Two shillings or a florin were still quite acceptable.

Granted, you wouldn't want them in your pocket or a carrier bag.

 

[Old dog]

Yes two self propelled and three trailed machines. Self propelleds were few are far between then.

Did you ever go to peckforton estates, always remember his 7000 and Massey 1080 pulling the Norton trailers ..

 

[ProDrive]

Yes went to Peckforton, must of been a bit later though 21 and 3140's but still with the Norton trailers.

 

[Old dog]

Tony's pride and joy a 3140 forget the lads name who was driving it at the time he lived opposite the bull in clotton ,anyway we had been playing chicken all day,we both won in the end,the wheel on my 7610 lost as it went rolling down the hill ,that took some explaining to Geoff Vickers??? The joys off being 18 .....

 

[Davos]

I had a purple fizzy, and was envious of my mates Garelli. Tried two up on mine, with my brother. We leaned too much on first corner and fell off. He was a year younger and only had a pushbike, so we used to tie him behind on a rope.
I soon moved onto an Austin 1300, then a 1600 Capri!

I went to York to the dealers to buy a fizzy but they had sold out so tried to buy a Garelli also sold out.In the end bought a Fantic ,biggest heap of shyte ever.Dealer I bought it from tuned it up by putting a 18mm carb on from the Fantic chopper instead of the standard 14mm.Used to eat spark plugs ,50 miles on one and you were lucky.
Moved on to a Honda 175 and then an Escort van.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Did you ever go to peckforton estates, always remember his 7000 and Massey 1080 pulling the Norton trailers ..

Went a few times with the college in the 70's to look at the novel new crop they were growing, Maize.

 

[Old dog]

Went a few times with the college in the 70's to look at the novel new crop they were growing, Maize.

Geoff Vickers was a pioneer in his day ,he was one of the first to grow it , always remember Clive Goodwin buying a Massey 525 combine with a maize header in the late 80's so they could cut some for the grains don't think it ended to well though think they cut 2 acres then parked it up at the back of the farm where it stayed until it rotted away ...funny really maize was Vickers down fall in the end, when the farm went organic he was still trying to grow it ,he couldn't farm without his sprayer and liquid feet

 

[Muck Spreader]

Geoff Vickers was a pioneer in his day ,he was one of the first to grow it , always remember Clive Goodwin buying a Massey 525 combine with a maize header in the late 80's so they could cut some for the grains don't think it ended to well though think they cut 2 acres then parked it up at the back of the farm where it stayed until it rotted away ...funny really maize was Vickers down fall in the end, when the farm went organic he was still trying to grow it ,he couldn't farm without his sprayer and liquid feet

We used to go up their to count cob densities and do dry matter calculations, but it used to generally turned into a re-enactment of the battle of Burma with cobs flying everywhere.

 

[ProDrive]

Tony's pride and joy a 3140 forget the lads name who was driving it at the time he lived opposite the bull in clotton ,anyway we had been playing chicken all day,we both won in the end,the wheel on my 7610 lost as it went rolling down the hill ,that took some explaining to Geoff Vickers??? The joys off being 18 .....

That would of been John Cooke.

 

[Old dog]

That would of been John Cooke.

That's the lad , the others I remember are Warwick Platt and Tim Ellis

 

[Muck Spreader]

Tony's pride and joy a 3140 forget the lads name who was driving it at the time he lived opposite the bull in clotton ,anyway we had been playing chicken all day,we both won in the end,the wheel on my 7610 lost as it went rolling down the hill ,that took some explaining to Geoff Vickers??? The joys off being 18 .....

Used to know the landlords son from the Bull in the 70's, Ceri Hughes, had a Suzuki GT250.

 

[ProDrive]

Still see Warwick but haven't seen Tim since he left Tony's.

 

[fingermouse]

No ones mentioned the shady oak or Bickerton poacher yet !!! Dink international on the turn tables ,wow what a DJ sometimes his records were nearly in fashion....

Think he only had about 5 discs but could keep the floor filled all night Wednesday nights at the poacher were a religion
The cock o Barton was another favourite of mine ,used to start off in there go to a do and then a tap on the kitchen door and stay in there till milking time ,the joys of youth in

 

[Old dog]

Think he only had about 5 discs but could keep the floor filled all night Wednesday nights at the poacher were a religion
The cock o Barton was another favourite of mine ,used to start off in there go to a do and then a tap on the kitchen door and stay in there till milking time ,the joys of youth in

Always remember pulling the plug out for his decks one night he never noticed until his groupies told him,not a happy chappie that night!!!! Use to be good for lockins in the shady ,good job I was working on a arable farm in those days never got home until 5 some mornings,I start at 5 now !!!

 

[fingermouse]

Always remember pulling the plug out for his decks one night he never noticed until his groupies told him,not a happy chappie that night!!!! Use to be good for lockins in the shady ,good job I was working on a arable farm in those days never got home until 5 some mornings,I start at 5 now !!!

Maybe he was listening to something on that phone he had glued to his ear then and it wasn't what he was playing
The shady oak ,Christ its been through the mill for sure .never drank in there much ,maybe a last swift half if coming back from a yfc meeting ,but no lockins
My one abiding memory of the shady will be trying to be a clever sod and taking a SP sprayer over the bridge with terras on ,not good

 

[ProDrive]

The canal always looked a lot narrower after a few beers, got wet a few times.:-(