From Bishop Auckland we head towards Spennymoor (look at the map here) and pass through Middlestone Moor, where we see a bus of Trimdon Motor Services on route T69.
Another TMS vehicle, this time in Spennymoor itself.
Here's an old postcard of the High Street.
Gardiner's was the local operator.
The vehicles of United and The Eden could also be seen in Spennymoor.
The next town is Ferryhill, once home to Dean & Chapter Colliery.
A postcard of Ferryhill Town Hall.
Ferryhill town centre in 2019 (Creative Commons License).
Here the local operator was Martindale's, with a depot in the town.
At least one stage carriage service was operated.
Ferryhill Station, being over a mile from the town, was on the East Coast Main Line. Trains still pass through.
The loco shed in 1936.
Ferryhill Station village is the location of the Surtees Arms, home to the Yard of Ale Brewery.
In the shadow of an evil looking coking plant at Fishburn was Grierson's Coaches, with a fleet of seond-hand vehicles for transporting miners, etc.
The final town of this post is Sedgefield, home to several pubs and a race course, none of which we are visiting. A local independent here, Wilkinson's, was taken over by United.
We now head for the coast and finish this post at the long vanished Blackhall Rocks Hotel.
Next time, Hartlepool, here we come.
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