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Here's the face you make after sucking a lemon  (my face would be much worse I think) Ben went back for a second and third taste!!
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Where shall we go Grampa? 
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He is so cute.I love eating lemons too!
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Michelle and Terry at the Largest Bass Pro shop in Springfield,Missouri:-
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Sheer nostalgia for those of us that were ever involved in road haulage.
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I've been to a few of these commercial vehicle shows but not come across the type of lorry my father used to drive - a Seddon diesel. Lots of Atkinsons around but not quite the same. What did you used to do in road haulage Freelance?
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I've been to a few of these commercial vehicle shows but not come across the type of lorry my father used to drive - a Seddon diesel. Lots of Atkinsons around but not quite the same. What did you used to do in road haulage Freelance?
Frankiesays ---- was your father's name Jimmy ? If so, I drove his Seddon many times.
What did I do ? ...... I drove for every worthwhile lorry firm in Lowestoft, and some of the not so worthwhile ones as well, including Durrant Fruiterers, A.E.Balls- fish haulage, C.Moore and Sons, A&S Boardley, B&B Transport, Humber Warehousing (which became Humber McVeigh) and for what was then the biggest and best privately owned fleet in East Anglia --- J.Tubby Ltd. I spent several years with Jack Tubby and covered around a million and a half miles in those lorries.
I am suspecting that your father was there as well ??
Later my brother and I owned Transfash Services (Lowestoft) Ltd. - the hot-shot and multiple delivery company.
Even so, transport was only part of my extremely diverse working life - -----------
Thanks, Meg also.
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...the hot-shot and multiple delivery company.
Great slogan Freelance.
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Great slogan Freelance.
We were a great little company, Mel. The very name was derived from "Transport in a Flash".
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Freelance - He drove for Harper's Transport which is not on your approved list  but maybe this was before your time? They sold out to Ernie Quantrill in about 1963 and diversified into the holiday business. My father's name was Neville. I believe their sister Company (Bowell & Harper) were the first in the country to use refrigerated containers? I took my father to a couple of the commercial vehicle shows but we could never find a lorry like either of his. The Seddon Atkinson with the big A on the grill is similar but his was presumably before the Seddon Atkinson partnership.
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I used to be quite keen on lorries as a boy as my father drove one and i used to go about with him a lot. As I remember it the main users of the Commer truck were EARAT in Pakefield - noisy little blighters.
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I believe their sister Company (Bowell & Harper) were the first in the country to use refrigerated containers?
Unfortunately, I think you are mistaken there, frankie. I'm sure you will find that Bowell and Harper never had any refrigerated containers - even when they had several lorries on Birds Eye contract, in Birds Eye livery. They were all insulated containers and kept the foods frozen by "dry ice" without a fridge.
Yes, I remember Harpers. They were based in Harpers Pit.
We had a fleet of those Commers at Tubby's on fruit market deliveries. They were so noisy because they were two-stroke diesels. They would de-carbonise themselves as they went along and threw out huge displays of sparks at night, frightening the following motorists.
I have a photo of the Commers somewhere if I can find it.
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There should have been 8 lorries in that line-up, but one was still on its way home from some far away fruit market.
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Quote: Later my brother and I owned Transflash Services (Lowestoft) Ltd. - the hot-shot and multiple delivery company
And here's a picture of Mick, brother Mervyn, & Jean taken by me at the Transflash headquarters on the Pakefield industrial site, way back 1978.
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Lorries of old had much more character than the trucks of nowadays.
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Mick and Jean haven't changed that much! (sorry. don't know about Mervyn!)
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Thank you, Eileen. Mervyn Harrod was always such a nice chap. Like his dad, he became a house painter, and he painted our shop for us (this was before Transflash). He also took down the old baked enamel signs for cigarettes and soap - which would be worth a fortune today! We were looking forward to meeting him when we came home last year, but apparently the family have lost track of him and don't know where he is. We would just like to know if he is OK...
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Spire of Norwich Cathedral (especially for Meg).
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That's a really great picture. Trigger.
It's a moving experience just looking at it. And one can almost imagine believers climbing that spire, up, up, up all the way to Heaven...
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Mick and Jean haven't changed that much! (sorry. don't know about Mervyn!)
Thanks Eileen,
Please take no notice of the remarks that follow your post regarding Mervyn's whereabouts. Of course we know where he is.
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Ken - thank you so much for your kind comments about the photo - much appreciated. And I must also thank you for saying how you could imagine believers climbing up that spire - hadn’t ever thought of it in that way - but that’s certainly food for thought. I occasionally stand in front of that building and think of its beauty and splendour - and achieved with such basic tools, equipment and knowledge - not forgetting that the foundation stone was put in place by Bishop Herbert in 1096.
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I love Norwich Cathedral!Every time we came to Lowestoft we went to Norwich to shop and visit the Cathedral where my dad was a choirboy in the early 1900's!
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Meg - I genuinely meant to add after "Norwich Cathedral Spire (especially for Meg)" - as I know that you love the Cathedral as well - and I forgot! Sorry!  (So I've changed it!!)
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Thank you ,John - I appreciate it.
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The earliest East Anglian pea season in living memory has just begun.
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There is a lot more traffic on the roads now than when I was young.Do kids still follow the lorries and pull the pea vines off?
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That stopped a couple of decades ago Meg. I used to live opposite the old golf course in Long road as a child and we had a couple of holly bushes that stuck out into the road and the peas from the tractors used to get stuck on them. For years now the pea viners have shelled them as they harvested them and they are transported to the factory in big hoppers on the back of lorries. The old tractors used to go to Mortons to have them shelled, the last time i saw any they were going straight to Salvesens cold store on Gorleston Road.
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Hi Meg When we were kids living in Dell Road Oulton broad we used to wait for the pea lorries to come down Colville Road the boys used to run out and grab as many peas as they could then we would sit under the lamp post out side our house and tuck in.Happy times.I would see that as highly dangerous now if my Grand children did any thing remotely like that.
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The pea viner is a bit like a combine harvester, but more gentle.
Besides Morton's they were brought in on the vine in earlier days to CWS Canning Factory and Birds Eye . There were several outying vining stations belonging to Birds Eye, as well.
Meg, - when I lived a few doors from you, I used to cycle to Blundeston daily at 3 am in the pea season to harvest peas using horses.
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Thanks for the pics Mick.
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i can't imagine you on push bike mick.how long it take get to blunston from LT i was thinking of trying to walk to yarmouth via beach
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sun on church tower
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Thank-you Freelance .
The black dog decided the best way to have a drink was to get in the canal and his young friend was not sure what was going on he was pawing the water and looking puzzled.
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The star of the show at the East Anglia Transport Museum yesterday.
The oldest trolleybus in working order in the world 'Copenhagen No. 5'. (Chassis built at Garrett's of Leiston).
Also a well restored telephone van.
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The weather was just right yesterday for punting on the river in Cambridge, although it got a little bit crowded at times...
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Great pics Mick & Mel.
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Thanks Meg, I think this 'punter' learned his trade in Venice on the gondolas
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Day out yesterday went here for a ride on the Yellow train up to Fort Ramu .
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Chalet with a living roof.
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Lovely pictures, Kerch, also very interesting ones. What can you tell us about the 'thousands of mirrors'?
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It's a research station ,someone said they do alot of work for N.A.S.S.A.Uses for sun power .It's called the Four du Soleil (sun oven) .There is a section open to the public but did n't have time to visit it this time ,I've been there before and did the tour then .I expect Google can tell you more about it . Bit further up the road is a expermental solar power station but did n't stop there no time .
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Four soleil d' Odeillo is on google do n't know how to post link but the pages explain it better than I can .
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There was a fire in the Thatch of a cottage down the road from us, I took a couple of pic's, Firemen soon had it under control
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The Crystalette Twirlers will be giving a demonstration at Caister Carnival tomorrow.
They will also march in to open a Grand Fete at Abbeville Lodge residential home, Yarmouth on July 9th at 2 pm and give a display at 3 pm.
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Michelle and Terry spent the weekend in Fort Worth ,Texas.Her are a few pic.
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Nice pictures Meg. Have they been to the Alamo?, i seem to remember someone did, it may have been June.
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June lives in San Antonio and I think she took some friends there.When we were in San Antonio and met June and her husband we went to the Alamo.June gave us a lovely print of a painting by a local artist of the River walk.
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Agree with Blue Eyes Meg nice pictures, love the old stagecoach so evocative of all the 'westerns' I have seen.
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Yes, starring Dale Robertson. Remembered the name but checked first with Google and Susan who both have better memories than me. She remembered him for his good looks but could not remember him being the 'left handed gun'
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I have just watched an episode of 'Wells Fargo' on YouTube (the Internet has certainly got its plus points) it has certainly dated but I did enjoy it...in fact it has cheered me up no end after being a bit miserable earlier. So thanks Meg...
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