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Retreats
From 'Truck' magazine July 1979
Retreat Mohotel - A21 All the usual fry-ups - 60p to 90p B&B £2.40 Sam's Transport Cafe - A22 All day breakfast... generous portions 60p Enterprise Cafe - A45 Go carefully through a jumble of bungalows.... Roasts every day for lunch and dinner 60p Priory Cafe - A433 Overnight accommodation including breakfast and parking - £3 Do we still have any of these places? |
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Probably not. The sleeper cab (once it was legalised) did for the many B&B places where drivers could stay, and the motorways and by-passes routed vehicles away from the usual stopping places (as well as the drivers' hours regulations altering the schedules).
Faster routes meant less need for stops, and drivers could snack in their cabs in comfort. |
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Those prices are reasonable even back then.
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So the Enterprise Cafe was demolished in 2005 for a housing estate and the Priory Cafe is now an 'Inn' with B&B at £85 |
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I'd much rather sit indoors than in the cab to have a break, but of course it doesn't always work out that way.
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My favourite was the Moss Cafe just North of Carlisle on the A74 now M74, but alas it is now long gone.
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