Steve Penny talks about Mark Crook's Wath Wanderers on the Grassroots Plus Podcast by Chris BrookOleh Chris Brook

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Alan descibes where the original shed was in MexboroughOleh Chris Brook

Going through the ranks at Mexborough loco in the 1940sOleh Chris Brook

Alan recalls George's lapel flower.Oleh Chris Brook

Alan speaks about Arthur Speke who supported teh church throughout his life.Oleh Chris Brook

Alan speaks about Bob Turner whose commute was a walk from Wombwell to Mexborough - 6 miles each way!Oleh Chris Brook

Alan's experience of how strike breakers were treated.Oleh Chris Brook

Route learning Scarborough and Roger Hague's brother has an accident that stopped him from driving.Oleh Chris Brook

Mexborough loco drivers had to work some unusal special trains including circus trains, Carl Rosa opera company and racing pigeons.Oleh Chris Brook

Alan Brook speaks about his father, Percy Brook, who was a driver at Mexborough loco from 1914.Oleh Chris Brook

Walking home after missing the last trainOleh Chris Brook

The different driving links at Mexborough loco in the 1950s.Oleh Chris Brook

The workings of the Masborough to Stratford service.Oleh Chris Brook

Was the world record speed by a steam train fair?Oleh Chris Brook

Families who moved from the port of Liverpool to the port of Hull (vice versa) had monthly direct services to visit relatives.Oleh Chris Brook

Sons often follwed their fathers into similar trades.Oleh Chris Brook

Alan discuss the merits of different drivers & even different coal in the performance of the steam locosOleh Chris Brook

How a religious driver reacted when Alan swore.Oleh Chris Brook

fire dropper : drops live fire by removing loosely fitting slotted bars from fire box and rakes ashes and cinders from fire box into ash pit with long metal rake, on arrival of engine at shed after journey; in small sheds also does work of ash filler q.v.; on some railways work done by fireman and occasionally by engine cleaner…

Various Links at Mexborough LocoOleh Chris Brook

Listing some of the collieries served by Mexborough loco.Oleh Chris Brook

Alan Brook describes an experience of working on a "Boswell".Oleh Chris Brook

Everyday use of Asbestos on the Railway (1940s)Oleh Chris Brook

Army leaders were often involved in crash investigations. Also after the war, they were drafted in to manage depots.Oleh Chris Brook

Progression through the ranks at Mexborough Loco Shed in the 1940sOleh Chris Brook

Alan Brook descibes how the railway helped to deal with sewage in South Yorkshire (approx 1950s)Oleh Chris Brook

An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.Oleh BBC Radio 4

The national mood begins to change over the Vietnam war - how America began to move from early indifference to the recognition of a nightmare.Oleh BBC Radio 4

Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, Mayor Lindsay and the water commissioner, and a President Truman Christmas story.Oleh BBC Radio 4

Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night.Oleh BBC Radio 4

The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?Oleh BBC Radio 4

How the debacle of the Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston boxing prize fight tarnished one of the elements of American culture - sportsmanshipOleh BBC Radio 4

President Lyndon B Johnson's inauguration for his own full first term, and some earlier notable inaugurations, including Washington and Jefferson's.Oleh BBC Radio 4

The assassination of John F Kennedy, the first president of the television age, and the style, grace and fun he brought to the White House.Oleh BBC Radio 4

How New York construction was brought to a halt by the Electrician's Union strike, and why the computer or 'the big brain' will soon change how people work.Oleh BBC Radio 4

Alistair Cooke remembers Lindsay Wellington, the BBC head who came up with the idea of weekly letters to help people in the UK understand American life in 1946.Oleh BBC Radio 4

A tribute to American Pianist William Kappell, the best pianist of his generation, and what music means to Americans.Oleh BBC Radio 4

How a new daily diet of television in America is changing people's lives, as reported by Alistair Cooke.Oleh BBC Radio 4

A fragment preserved from Cooke's talk, reflecting on the importance of democratic capitalism and a free economy to Americans.Oleh BBC Radio 4