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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. The Bloomfield Talks team, on a visit to the Transport Depot, explore the Rocket, an old illuminated tram which has now been “retired”.
Do you remember the Rocket? What did you think of it? Creepy? Brilliant? Tell us your memories below.
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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. Don, an ex-worker at the Transport Depot, describes how the metal “tyres” for trams are made.
Behind the scenes at the Transport Depot, the end of the line (permanently) for some trams!
This photo, taken by Yannick Dixon at the Tram Depot in September 2008, shows a man whose job it is to clean the buses. You can also listen to an audio clip of Don, an ex-Transport worker, describing how the buses used to be cleaned; and an audio clip of Frank, describing a conversation he had with the man in the photo.
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Bloomfield residents talk about the tram routes during the Second World War, and how soldiers were often seen doing military exercises on the beach.
