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It’s old age
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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On we go,as I said AT that time I was working out of Deal ,well it could only happen to me EARLY one morning
was delivering bread to the cross channel ferry Sealink out of the western end ,and it was very fogey in fact could not see where I was going in the 1960s you entered the west docks by going round the clocktower turning then turn right at was also where the customs office was,you had to get out sigh in and tell them where you was going and how long you would be there.Having done that I had to go very slow because of the fog round to where the ferrys was and then take the bread on bored then return to my lorry and come out of the docks,wait for the fun side of this story.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Must say I have not seen fog like it was that morning anyway going very slowly I got to the ships which was maud up just out side what was then the marine railway stations having delivererd to the ships I drove to the end of the railway station and turned to come back in the 1960s there was also a rail track running along the outside of the station,and it was fix in the road so thinking to my self I did not want to end up in the water ,so because I could not see a hand in front of me I drove very close to the outside of the station well I forgot at the end of the station the road went round to the right, but I went straight on and yes I ended up on the railway lines which had pebbles under the track not the road ,and my lorry being heavy I could not drive off my wheels were digging in the pebbles I was truly stuck there.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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I did not know what to do,a chap run up and shouted to we got to get you of quick because the GOLEGN ARRIOW WAS ABOUT TO COME ROUND TO THE STATION,Any way there was no way to move it.so they had to stop the train .so heavy crane could come round and lift off orpull me off,well this took about two hours to do ,no one was happy with me.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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That is not the end of this story, I was driving back round the dock to get out got to the customs they came out and stopped me,"you been a very long time mate, nornally it only takes you about 30 mins and you have been over two hrs.I told them what happen",We will have to look in the back and do a searth of it."I am very late now.Sorry about that but rules are rules, well by the time they ae done that there was nothing left they pulled all the bread apart and rolls all it was good for was to give it to the seagulls.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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It was about this time my brother had completed his time in the household cavalry they wanted him to sigh on again but that was a no he had a very good record ,and he got married in the army still with his wife now over 60years ,and they are holding a party in Dover very soon.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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As for myself I was still working as a lorry driver the company moved from Deal to Canterbury I went wit-but it was not long after that that I to got married my dad gave my brother and myself over £500 each to buy a house and that was to act as a deposit,My brother got a new bungalow just outside of Dover and I got one in St Margarets bay.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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But my wage was not that good so left the bakery and my dad got me a job at the D.E.W working in the Foundry he was one of the foreman there. Very heavy and dirty work I was trained as a floor moulder .
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