We tried to finish this week what we'd started last week, with our Review Of The Past Year, but it soon became clear we would need to continue next week if we were to get to hear a brief sample of everyone's contributions - the idea of this being so that listeners could request us to replay in full anything that caught their ears.
At this stage, we are not even half way through! It's good though to be reminded of all that has been heard on the show to date and this, of course, gave us an opportunity this week to mark the sad passing on Christmas Day, at the age of just 57, of Dr. Colin White, of The Royal Naval Museum, a great expert on Lord Nelson, by replaying in full his own valuable contribution to the History Show last April. A great loss indeed.
On the right we see the winner of the 4th January 2009 History Show Quiz John Holland of Eastney holding his trophy presented to him by Robin in ExpressFM's new studios in Arundel Street on 7th January 2009, during Darren Gamblen's 9am - 12pm weekday morning programme.
The subjects (well, two of the four we so far have pictures for) of the answer to this week's local history Quiz question "Mention the names Craven or Burlingham, English Electric or Metro-Cammell and what do you suppose we are talking about that were a daily sight around Portsmouth in the last half of the last century?"
These names referred to the different designs of bodies built for the city's trolley buses. Shown here at Cosham is the last to be built, the Burlingham body, of which 15 were built between 1950 and 1951 upon a BUT chassis.
Here in Guildhall Square we can see two examples of the total of 75 Craven bodies built on AEC chassis between 1937-1937.
English Electric and Metro-Cammell had previously built a much smaller number of very many other designs of bodies during the early period of trollybus operations when all kinds of designs were being invited from coachbuilders for evaluation.
Both photos: Bruce Oliver |
