Remember when scrapyards were...

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37426

.... dirty holes inhabited by Faganesque characters with chained up alsatians .... now they're bigger and dirtier and everyone wears day-glo green jackets ... and they're called 'recycling centres' and seem to be Hartlepools biggest growth industry. :roll:

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

and now you are not allowed to enter the yard for fear of breaking H&S rules

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22665

I remember regularly taking all manner of shite to the one at the bottom of Hart Lane. It was run by an old fella who Steptoe must have been modelled on. Won the DCM in WW1 as I remember.

* DCM - Distinguished Conduct Medal. A level two award or in other words; one down from the VC.

verbalkint · **Joined:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:08 pm **Posts:** 3135

Muclusky's i think he was called ?

Frodraff · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:33 pm

Snowy wrote:

.... dirty holes inhabited by Faganesque characters with chained up alsatians .... now they're bigger and dirtier and everyone wears day-glo green jackets ... and they're called 'recycling centres' and seem to be Hartlepools biggest growth industry. :roll:

Yes I kept most of my earlier cars going using second hand parts from scrappies.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:34 pm

The Hart Lane scrappy was just round the corner from us when I was a bairn, entrance from behind in Joicey/Ridley streets.
Fooked if I can remember the name like. We used to sell him rags but no bones.

In his front window he had a Vincent 1200cc Black Shadow, a real beauty! I don't think it worked like cos it never moved. :laugh:

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:39 pm

Frodraff wrote:

Yes I kept most of my earlier cars going using second hand parts from scrappies.

Not that Vespa scooter what you had in our garage though. :roll:

Didn't need spares, just some petrol....... :grin:

Me father told that story about every twenty minutes for 18 years..... clappp

verbalkint · **Joined:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:08 pm **Posts:** 3135

Richard Head wrote:

The Hart Lane scrappy was just round the corner from us when I was a bairn, entrance from behind in Joicey/Ridley streets.
Fooked if I can remember the name like. We used to sell him rags but no bones.

In his front window he had a Vincent 1200cc Black Shadow, a real beauty! I don't think it worked like cos it never moved. :laugh:

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