SUNNY SCUNNY

Following the Trent for about a mile southwards and we find Burringham village, depicted in this old postcard.

East now, to Ashby, once a separate village, but now a suburb of Scunthorpe. This is the High Street, looking west.

Ashby is home to a fine free house, the Mallt Shovel.

A local bus company, Hornsby's, have their depot in the middle of Ashby.

Hornsby's run a regular service into Scunthorpe.

We head to the west of the town, to Scotter Road viaduct, which was later converted to an embankment. It's on the GCR Doncaster to Cleethorpes line.

Not far away, close to the football gound, is the Berkeley, a Sam Smoth's pub in CAMRA's National Inventory.

As we head into Scunthorpe town centre, we find the Riveter, seen here as an Old Mill Brewery pub. Reports now indicate it is closed.

Close to Scunthorpe railway station is the Honest Lawyer, a pretty good free house.

The present-day Scunthorpe station was built by the LNER. Here, a class 20 sits in a siding.

31451 has charge of a Sheffield bound service in 1985.

Trans Pennine now operates the faster services through the station.

A walk through the streets takes us into the town centre.

Here's the High Street in the 1930s.

On High Street was the Abacus - now shut!

To the bus station, where Lincolnshire Road Car was the main operator and had a depot here.

Road Car was later taken over by Stagecoach.

The Humber Road Car Co. once served the town.

Enterprise & Silver Dawn was taken over by the bigger Road Car.

With the opening of the Humber Bridge, it's now common to find East Yorkshire's buses in Scunthorpe.

Hornsby's buses are frequent visitors.

This Bedford OB is in Hornsby's haritage fleet (Andrew Fieldsend).

Other independents have included Trent Motors, Sweyne and Daisy of Broughton.

A company called Black & White, running schools and workers' services, had a depot in the town.

Scunthorpe's original GCR station was much closer to the town's industry.

Around the corner was the terminus of the North Lindsey Light Railway.

Surrounded by steelworks was Dawes Lane signal box, on the NLLR.

The Trent Ironworks - a postcard from the early 1920s.

Scunthorpe steelworks boast four "Queens" - three are seen here. They are blast furnaces.

The ssteelworks is served by a large railway network. One of the Hunslet Bo-Bo locos is seen here in 1975.

Yorkshire Engiine Co. locos are used too.

The Appleby-Frodingham Railway Society runs tour of the steelworks complex.

Back to 1975 and the steelworks' bus park is full of vehicles from Granville Tours, Hudson of Horncastle, Isle Coaches ad Scutt's of Owston Ferry.

Iron ore, imported from Immingham, is delivered by train over a line with no connection to the rest of the internal network.

Frodingham diesel depot was a busy place in the 1970s.

Here it is in 1985.

47233 looks sorry for itself at Frodingham in 1991. The depot is now closed.

I'll leave it there for now. Next time, we'll be looking around rural North Lincolnshire.