Going Places The Story of Sunderland Transport
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- This sponsored film by the Turners Film Unit for Sunderland Corporation's Transport Department documents the abandonment of the Sunderland tramway system in 1954 in favour of motorbuses. It details the planning and operations of the bus transport system, and its importance for local people and businesses in Sunderland and surrounding areas. The film features good footage of trams and new buses in operation; local industries of glass making, coal mining and ship building; and of people at leisure in local coastal resorts.
Title: Commentary Spoken By Lionel Marson
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awesome movie! great thanks for posting it!
Glad you liked it Paul, it looked (& probably was) a much simpler time
@@druidwulf yes, indeed ;-)
WOW!!!!!
This has triggered some memories.
It's amazing what's locked away in the biological hard-drive that just takes a little prompt to be able to recall it.
I used to be a student at the University of Sunderland and all I have ever seen is the Tyne and Wear Metro as well as Network Rail. But if there was still trams about it would have been a thing of beauty. What a find mate!
Somewhat before my time. Left Washington in 1984 to live in Germany. Only place I was confident in spotting was Seaham Harbour. Football crowds was massive. Shame no local used for voice over. Thank you for posting.
I’m 16 and have lived in Sunderland all my life and it’s weird to see how places I visit daily used to be
see if you can find a video on sunderland back in the 80s early 90s you will get a surprise, I am from sunderland too 34 years old. I just say remember the ship yard cranes, all vanished back in the 90s , your grand parents will have worked in the ship yards or the mines.
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My grandfather was a Ships plater (a trainee in the 1911 census) and lived in Sunderland his whole life. His father before him was a Ship Wright and his father in law also.
In fact half of my family are from Sunderland. A (in my mind at least) famous relative being Fred Stewart; involved in Sunderland FC and director in the 1970s. Died 1982.
This should be shown in all Sunderland schools as a reminder of what a great place it was.
Sunderland has always had an awful lot of problems - including back then, when crushing poverty was just as evident as it is now. We have huge problems now. But we also did back then, too.
2:13 "but the youngsters always have a wonderful time" - playing on the beach by the sewage outflow pipe!
Hope they'd had their polio shots.
My late mother used to warn me , when my dad took me to Hendon beach , that the water was full of "dead sailors" from the sewage outflow.
I'm a proud mackem
And so you should be, even though I moved to Salem Oregon in '99, I'm still a proud Mackem =)
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18:48 - grandad Tom
Great memories 😊
Notice how well the people are dressed. I can remember dressing with collar and tie in the 1950s 60s now in 2021 we a prime minister living at no 10 with a illegitimate child and not married
People didn't have money and yet were far better dressed than we are today.
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One reason trams (and trolleybuses) were removed in London was fire brigade argued their equipment was an obstruction- did that apply to Sunderland, and elsewhere as well?
why 2 not like this ?
Mags.
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This is God's Country
@davidsnowdon7328 Exactly. English by birth, Mackem by the grace of God 😁
WHAT ABOUT THE SHIPYARD OF BARTRAM AND SON THAT LAUNCHED INTO THE NORTH SEA. I WORKED THERE THROUGHOUT THE 50s AND 60s. WHAT A TIME THEN. UNTIL THATCHER DESTROYED IT.