Hi Bro. Hope you're all well. On a wander round Braunstone Park today, Can you remember which number Grandma and Grandpa lived at? I'm sure you can, and the reg number of his Ford Consul estate...?
Ok Cheers. I'll take a look whilst I'm here. And am I imagining this or could you get to Grandpa's orchard from our back garden?
Looking at it, it can't be true as it's the other side of Almer Road. Magical childhood memories playing tricks again.
Yeh, found it. Looks very different now. Big extension on the side. I'll send you a Facebook message with some picks later. It's all very familiar, especially the park
Camville Road is looking a lot neater than last time I was up this way.
We lived up the road, Gramp's garden was massive, they had pear and apple trees.
When we lived at 35 Overpark Ave, Dad used to park his six wheeler, a red Albion Reiver, VAL 205, outside Gramp's.
I was racking my brains trying to remember VAL. Before my time. For some reason I thought it was a Dodge 300 (Same cab as the Leyland and Albion I think) and for Alexandra Stone.
OK That sort of rings a bell. My earliest memory is his Redland AEC Marshal Major, parked outside Camville and Mr Mores BP Atkinson tanker starting up in the morning.
Blue smoke, Front mounted exhaust?
Dad had a Bedford KM SPH507F his first truck for Redlands, a four wheeler, then he had CRC396J, an AEC Marshal six wheeler, then left to work with Uncle Terry at a steel foundry, Russell's, didn't like it, went back to Redlands and got CRC394J. I could go on trust me. Jack Moore had that lovely Gardner 240 Atkinson Borderer for AM Walker (Annie Walker) the company was known as Ma Walkers.
Ma Walker of Cosby? Wonder why I have it in my head as in BP colours? Walkers were orange. Anyhow it's the last J reg AEC I must have a memory of. Then the GEC ERF B, then the Bison 2 VNU76S (only reg I remember) and finally his T45, A123BRB?
Ooh nearly, Ma Walkers first colours were green and red and white, then she changed to orange and brown, similar to Herocks, then Jack's last truck was a Volvo F88 in Carlsberg livery, green and white. Dad's Bison was VNU78S and yes you got the Constructor right.
