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Pickfords Heavy Haulage and us!

Some old and not so old pictures of Big Loads on the move. I remember Dad ( Tommy Bradley ) here in some of the pictures and especially the ones I took next to the Volvo and Daf ). Sometimes he could be away for weeks if he was driving a Contractor from Newcastle to London and then up to Glasgow. He used to send me to buy cigarettes from a machine to use as a thank you if he was able to get a lift home instead of staying in digs. The wages were poor and they had to do the best they could. Men would arrive at our home with Dad's Pay Packet so that Mam had enough cash to feed us. No bank accounts in those days. I have been with Dad installing an electricity transformer once and when I was 8 years old got a guided tour of the flight deck of a Scammell Contractor. Wow!.... I can still smell his overalls. We especially liked it when Dad had been to Scotland because he always brought us back some Edinburgh Rock. Summers that went on forever, Austin 7 Ruby that didn't and caravan holidays in Eyemouth.