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I used to drive my. Dad crazy trying to get the figure in and out.

Just come across this - was borne 1948 at South Steads, the farm owned by Burn just down the fields twards Junction Inn - my dad was the tenant, Charlton Hall. Knew the works pretty well as had to cross the line there between the pit and the brick works to get the bus from Widd Stn. All part of the early British disappearing manufacturing industry.

I had one for Christmas years ago don’t know what happend to it Wish I had it today

> Called Johnny > Is red > Is a truck Yep, you predicted asdfmovie15

I have every single thing they sold. Got it all for xmass in 65 or 66???

Nothing better than starting at 7.30 am on a frosty morning and dipping a rag into your oil tin , fingers instantly going numb as you lubed up the plates on the presses . Gordon always worked the Jessop with a Superking tab hanging out of his mouth .

Ah, memory lane! Thanks for posting!

My 2 older brothers had , 1 a big red convertible, the other this loading truck. They were awesome to a 7 yr old . They were 8 and 9 . Afterwards my younger brother always got the best or biggest toy.

My mother died in the hospice in 2009 most of the hospital was gone then sure the army used it in ww2

This brings back great memories.

I received one for Christmas and took very good care of it. The steering motor or that part of the control was the first thing to fail on mine. I also got the Refrigerator Van No. 6270. I still have them. Agree with others on here that it was fun learning how to back up a trailer.

it was a very nice shot, how many meters high did you fly?

Wow I had one as a kid

i had that but with the pallets and folk lift truck too

1st proper job I ever had, dam hard graft, started with Dave Green from Ashington, a German guy named Rudi was the foreman, scary dude, and Jimmy Farmer was the jack the lad and very popular with the women working there.

The best Christmas present I ever received. Remember that Christmas well. Sadly during our Christmas break my little brother and sister got a hold of my truck and manually pushed it around stripping the gears and it never worked again. But was the best 7-10 days of Christmas vacation I ever had. 😀

Brother had this, I had crusader 101. Christmases back then were GLORIOUS.🎁🎄🎀

I worked there for a short period before joining the RAF. I was mainly imprisoned up in the hoppers with Benny Garbutt but did escape on occasion to dig out the pans and any other shit job Jimmy Farmer could find for me

Got mine from Santa around 69-70,,,my tractor was black,,not red,,,my dad was a steel hauler,,owned an 8 axel trailer,,so I wanted more than one axel on my trailer

I still have mine!!!! I'm thinking of converting it to radio control. BTW: I have many of the accessories.

And now the brickyard is nothing but a pile of ruble and is now currently being debated over to build houses on it

What a real shame Some of it is very old and had been there since ww1 so I did really need to be demolished but the brick buildings could have been refurbished and I think some of those wooden huts shud have gone to beamish and the shud have built a new hospital in its place. I’ve got a sky view picture of all of the hospital and the newer bit which has just been demolished and it looks great back in the 80s do u have any idea how long it had be shut for when these photos where taken ?

I bought mine back in the early 70s, a last remaining display piece with a deformed, manufacturing defect, rim. Kind of late in life, in my teens, because otherwise would have never got one. The store was May company now long gone. Wanted the Johnny Express ever since seeing the commercials in the 60s.

SO COOL TO HEAR THAT MOTOR AGAIN!!

I got one for Christmas when I was six years old. One of my favorite toys. I also had a Mighty Mike and the Camel Back Skyway

I still have one

Thank you so much for posting the Johnny Express Truck. I had one when I was a kid played with it for 7 years. My uncle was a trucker and now am also a trucker. This video brought tears to my eyes. Thank you again God bless.

This place looks like I feel, old.

Worked there 3 times. Should have pleaded guilty. Run by a set of greedy twats.

When I was 3 years old my father died driving a truck 1965.Mom bought me "Johnny" . Recall concerns of battery issues , my young age only handled my truck very limited times ,then neatly stored with trailer in its original cardboard box. It has remained in my mothers attic for well over 50 years.

My Mom and Dad bought me and my brother two Johnny Express Trucks for Christmas back in 1968. My brother and I wound up working for Freightliner Truck Manufacturing Company in Mount Holly North Carolina.

Started working 1974 I remember those wooden steps up to our workshop.. db

I have one got it for Christmas 1966 loved it very much

Excellent video, thank you for sharing! I was brought up at Widdrington Station and have distinct memories of the Brickyard, Screens and Opencast works. Now I find I'm spending more and more time researching and tracing evidence of our areas industrial past. Since a lot of the area around the screens has since been opencasted itself, this video has been very valuable to me! I'm just a bit too young to remember the abandoned dragline boom at chibburn but have found that story very fascinating.

One of the last projects to leave their gate were the bricks used to make internal cupola roof of the Beehive Kiln at Errington Reay's Bardon Mill pottery works.

My father worked there for many years. It was one of the few places around Widdrington that was one of the main employers along with the local pits at Ellington and Lynemonth. Great photos.

I had one of these i still remember the commercials .santa brought mine in 1968. I pick it out at the old Western Auto. I could sit in the flat bed and it could pull me like in the commercial. And the truck sounds it made. I would not let anyone except dad play with it. Thanks for the memories it made me tear up miss my mom and dad. .these were toys not the shit they make now 😪 thank you

That's very good. I fly a Disco too. Try flying it on a sunny day - the pictures look so much better.

Are these the only photos you have?

Quite a special place that. Some of that new construction they were doing in the photos can still be seen on the demolished patch. I'm not sure that the site is finished yet - it's actually in a fair location. Hidden yet close to a road network. Mining won't return and I'm sure the place can be put to good use. Widdrington Station and the surrounding area really needs help getting back on its feet..

Will be interesting to see what happens to this. They were supposedly going to sort it after the harvest 2018. Still nothing done to it.

GREAT VIDEO MATE

Still have the one I got for Christmas in the sixties.

I had one when I was a child as did my brother. We did not have a lot of money. loved taking the wheels off and dropping the child as my dad did in real life. Memories!

An absolutely amazing video. Especially the boom of the Marion 7800 dragline that failed during operation. The machine actually had a shorter boom installed and was later sold and ended it’s life in Canada in recent years. It’s sister machine remained in the UK and finished up at Chester House near Togston where it was scrapped in 1995. Oh and the Bailey bridge near the Widdy Inn 😃

Nice

Please could you let me know what that track is? Love it

I had one of these back in the day, my dad built a transformer and joystick to do away with the control and battery's, I had the crane and the container back, I always wanted the tipper! I bought another a few years ago, imported from the US, it worked great, I had the crate set and spare wheel kit, the noise of the steering overload ratchet is what brings it all back. Jerry Anderson used lots of these as the basis for trucks in Captain Scarlet, he even used the Tiger joe tank as the basis for the Mobiles in UFO. Mine are gone now, replaced by my first love . . . Mighty Tonka trucks!

My dad got my brother and I one in 1966 for Christmas and we opened them on Christmas Eve and my dad and uncle stayed up half the night playing with them Cool trucks and beautiful memories 😁

thanks for sharing this. I'm in the process of buying an apartment in the listed building there and the history is fascinating, dates back to the 1700s at least. Appreciate your effort