No Trolleys to Aquarium

Originally produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the closure of Brighton's much admired trolleybus system, this volume contains colour footage of Corporation and Company trolleybuses in action. Congregate at Old Steine, climb past the station up to Seven Dials; admire activity at St Peters Church; Preston Circus & Open Market; scale the heights to Preston Drove. Hollingbury and Race Hill; snake down to Black Rock; visit Whitehawk and Lewes Road garages. Also featured are Brighton Trolleys in Bournemouth, Bradford, Maidstone and on Teeside. Special features: stunning film of the 1939 tram to trolleybus conversion filmed by the then general manager, Winston Robinson with trams on Dyke Road; visits to Weyman & Cromptons; inauguration of the trolleybuses; the last trams; the magnificent Southern Railway ‘Brighton Belle’ Pullman in 1939; coverage of the world famous Volks Electric Railway including the reopening in May 1948.