Neville John William Day 7 March 1922 - 26 November 1990

	Preface		Dad and the Cranes
	Neville Day The early years		Dad and his duty to the Crown. Including the one on the can!
	Dad's Dad's Army		Dad’s driving lessons (and some)
	Help from Neville’s Father John Day		Dad and the Mercedes G Wagon
	The Day I met Day		Dad, four tonnes of concrete and the gravel tsunami
	Dad and the Coronation		Norfolk is flat (not!)
	Neville Day’s admirable tutoring		No pheasant in here Charles
	Dad promotes me to Chauffeur		You can drive when you're eighty!
	Dad and THE holiday		Dad and the North Sea Gas pipeline
	Dad’s pigs and the Onion Dance		Dad's Butt pricking
	Dad and me and the Farm Fire		Dad’s idyllic office and the end of Neville Day Plant Hire Ltd
	Fluffy dog meets Steam Engine (fluffy no more)		Dad’s little known speech impediment
	Helping Dad with the pruning and tree felling		Dad and the not a Volkswagen
	Neville Day The early years and the final hour		Dad’s wheelies
	Dad and Fairstead		Dad would have laughed!

Small big works too!

Apart from participating as sub-contractors on major projects such as the A149 King's Lynn Bypass, King's Lynn 'Roll-on Roll-off' docks expansion, King's lynn London Overspill Hardwick Housing Estate and the Bacton to Rugby North Sea Gas Pipeline project, Neville Day Plant Hire Ltd busied itself with sometimes quite minor local works too.

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Sometimes personally and often without charge when he thought the cause worthy enough. Circa 1966 Neville Day crafted by his own hand a series of four 'Sleeping Policeman' speed bumps across 'The Hard', the shingle quay and slipway at Brancaster Staithe harbour in north Norfolk. Thus curbing the speeding excesses of visiting Grockle yobs oblivious to the danger of mowing down children and pensionioners unable to get out of the way of them in time.

I am gratified to see that the remains of one still exists, largely intact to this day in 2025, almost 60 years later. The remaining three would appear to have now been buried beneath successive layers of new 'Hoggin'. A local type of shingle and oher aggregate hard core mix used for road fill, particularly over potholes.

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