'Trolleybus and beyond'

The Trolleybus shed on Middlesbrough road South Bank and beyond. Some of the pictures are a few years old now so currently updating with 2021 'now' pictures for a future video. None of the 'Then' pictures belong to me so many thanks to the many people who the pictures belong to.

[@uk-martin4905]

As a southerner who has never been further north than Fleetwood and now lives in Manchester, I don't know the area but it was interesting.....well, very sad actually........to see a once quite vibrant environment die as industry obviously closed down or moved away.. There may be more trees and greenery now but it is as if all life has been drained out of the area leaving a feeling of profound sadness.
Congratulations on putting the film together so professionally. It was very moving. And the mix of trolleybuses was interesting (although I admit the Nortern Counties-bodied double-decker at the end wasn't unpleasant!)

[@chezyladinboro2176]

you are wrong in a way because i live in grangetown and the colour hasnt been took away from i live and i know what you mean by been took away

[@charlesbaines2510]

These videos are fantastic. I did my apprentceshipfor british steel in South Bank and i used to walk this way to work down past Cargo Fleet and onto South Bank. Looking at these brings back so many fond memories. They were great communities with lovely friendly people, they were flushed away in the 80s by Thatcher's anti-socialist policies and left to rot. When i see it now i could weep. So much potential and experience flushed down the drain!
Keep up the good work, these are excellent!

[@trevorhart545]

There weren't the Tory Votes to be had so Teesside suffered at the expense of areas where "votes could count". Collapse of ICI, Steel Works, Shipbuilding and as a Port meant there was little left. Wilton and Billingham sites still there but under different ownerships. In the 1960s/70s ICI joint Billingham/Wilton plants was the biggest Chemical Site in Europe. BSC Redcar was designed by Japan and used exclusively Australian Iron Ore and Coal, thanks to Margaret Thatcher and her following PMs. Looking down from Ormesby Bank at night looked like Disneyland. New Year all the ships in Port would Sound In the New Year, heard for miles.

[@kenhutley971]

Congratulations on compiling this video. I grew up in Cargo Fleet from 1945 to 1960 and it stayed pretty much the same as did 'Doggie' (North Ormesby) as did 'town' (Middlesbrough) itself. I loved the area as a kid, as it was at that time and am glad that I did. All things change with time but I often ask myself why so few things, especially visual things, are are not better than the things they replaced? Subjective I know and just my opinion!

[@arthurvasey]

1:16 I remember a few times getting buses home from Middlesbrough to Grangetown - often came home around tea time during school holidays - and we often got Corporation buses - which our adults called “T-buses” for some reason - going as far as the “Trolley Services” - the building pictured here - and getting off the “T-bus” and on to a trolley bus in front!

[@paulnolan1352]

Thanks very much for these, the images coupled with the music add to the ambience and feel for the industrial and social decline of a once great steel making area.i have never known a country so bent on destroying its own people.

[@albertwant6251]

I use to work on the Cleveland transit .worked at Middlesbrough depot then South Bank

[@bs6028]

I grew up in a house at the bullring in Birchington Ave., which was the terminus at the time. (I am almost 80) My sister Mary and Harry Taylor met on the busses. I worked at Dormal Long (Just down the road from the Lyric) when I left school in '58 and then in about 1960 I went to Cargo Fleet. In '62 I joined the army for 6 yrs. and then to Australia. Grangetown was a great place when I was young. I wrote a lot about it on a Grangetown site on Facebook (Which I left due to the usual idiots on Facebook.)

[@MadeInGrangetown]

Hello from a currently very wet & windy Teesside. Thankyou for watching and commenting. I love and appreciate it when people share their very interesting history and links to the area. My memories of Grangetown and Teesside only really begin from the very late 70's and early 80's. It is a shame you left the Facebook page as it is the perfect place for leaving such nice memories. Hope Australia is treating you well

[@stewartmcmanus3991]

I worked at both those places in the sixties. Cargo Fleet as a stocktaker and TRTB as a conductor.