This August 1934 view shows one of the Corporation's two new 'Tram-O-Car' buses outside Alex Hasting's shop at Seaburn. The shop sold sweets and buckets and spades and was also Seaburn post office.
The little bus is waiting to set off on a sea-front tour to Whitburn, as advertised on the big board above it. The edge of the tram turning loop is on the left and the Seaburn Hotel was built on the right two years later. Caption from Malcolm Fraser.
Roker Park c 1910. The land for Roker Park was given to the town by Sir Hedworth Williamson in 1879, the year the horse trams started, on condition that the Corporation would build the stone bridge over the ravine to link Roker (on the right) with his land to the north (on the left) which eventually became Seaburn. Caption from Malcolm Fraser
