OT Transport Cafes.......

[The Wanderer]

... or the demise thereof.

So my recent enquiry about the Black Cat Cafe in Devon got me thinking about the many transport cafes that have disappeared over the last couple of decades.

I spent many years working around Berkshire/North Hampshire/Wiltshire and can think of quite a few that have long since disappeared.

Foremost has to be Gill's cafe, Monxton R/A in Andover. Truckers would go quite a way off their journeys to stop here.

Another with a good reputation was the Golden Arrow on the A4 between Hungerford and Marlboro, used to see the Rollers parked up there at the weekends for breakfast. Last I saw of this place was an American themed eaterie. Further west beyond Marlboro was the Ridgeway Cafe.

There was St George's Cafe at Ogbourne St George, a couple of Greasy Spoons in Ludgershall, another couple in Tidworth itself, and one amongst the trees at Everleigh on the A342.

One other comes to mind, at Beedon north of Newbury, although the name escapes me.

I guess all the bypasses and motorways of the last 30 odd years put paid to so many of these.

[ARWadsworth]

Of couse I have a Redbeck cafe within striking distance of my house

best cafe ever. It never shuts. I dread to think how much that place has cost me.

Adam

[Stuart Noble]

I'm going to book a single room for next Xmas

[gilli]

Hi, Some years ago there was a guide to such places sponsored by Fruehauf Perhaps someone still does it. David Gilliland

[gilli]

Hi, Some years ago there was a guide to such places sponsored by Fruehauf Perhaps someone still does its equivalent. David G.

[gilli]

Hi,

Just found these appropriate to the earlier comment:

hunting

David Gilliland

[mark]

Here`s a site for you to get the nostalgia really going.