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Click the link to listen.  Don, an ex-worker at the Transport Depot, desxcribes the huge, heavy-duty guillotine they used for cutting metal.

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Click the link to listen.  A worker at the Transport depot describes how the adverts are put on buses and trams.  Years ago, they were hand-painted - but now a printed sticky-back vinyl is used.  Getting those huge sheets of vinyl on smoothly with no bubbles is quite an art!

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Click the link to listen.  A worker at the Transport Depot describes how buses and trams are painted, and how the skills have changed.  Can you imagine getting used to the smell of all that varnish?!

Local resident Frank Murray writes about the bus routes around Bloomfield, complete with a snippet of overheard conversation, and some maps and timetables from a 2008 leaflet.

Buses and bus routes can tell us a lot about a place.  What’s your regular bus route, or what did it used to be years ago?  You could draw us a sketch map, or send us a memory of something that happened on a bus.  Or, if you get the bus regularly, you could write an account of the route and the things you see every day on your journey;or tell us about the conversations you have, or overhear, on the bus.