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Kwik Save Ashton in Makerfield

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Kwik Save depot Lockett Road Ashton in Makerfield 1999.
Kwik Save depot Lockett Road Ashton in Makerfield 1999.
Photo: Colin Harlow
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Item #: 27544
Bailing machine building, drivers reverse and drop off trailers with old food boxes and waste. Once empty, the shunters park the trailers on the loading bay for the next load to the stores.

Comment by: Ozymandias. on 6th February 2016 at 19:20

Spent a few weeks on nights here , de-kitting the backlog of trailers. It must have been October '99 as Macy Gray was at No 5 in the U.K. charts with ' I Try '. There was a cracking lad working as chargehand at the time. He was a Scouser, I think his name was Kevin. I didn't half throw some decent gear into Blakeley's skip. Heartbreaking really. I don't recognise the driver of the dock spotter, but it isn't my old mate Dave Dawber, R.I.P.

Comment by: Colin Harlow on 6th February 2016 at 20:37

The shunters is Ste Myres (always asleep) Dave Dawber was a great guy RIP, and Kevin Melling was in charge after Stan Cook.

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