Carriageworks (ABB) closure: 1995 audio

BBC Radio York reports on the closure, short compilation of first reactions and news reports, 11 May 1995 (3 mins 31 secs):

Radio York, 11 May 1995, carriageworks closure, news report (43 secs):

Mike Briscoe, transport correspondent, gives the background/recent history leading to the closure announcement, on Radio York (4 mins 59 secs):

The Managing Editor of the Evening Press talks to Barry Parker, Radio York, about the closure, the newspaper’s campaign, and its supplement celebrating the carriageworks (2 mins 35 secs):

Mabel, a caller to Jonathan Cowap’s programme, Radio York, morning of 12 May 1995. Mabel and Jonathan discuss the impact of the closure, and their sadness 
(56 secs):

Pat, a caller to Jonathan Cowap’s programme, 12 May 1995. Pat lives near the carriageworks, her call conveys the way this factory was at the heart of the community 
(2 mins 36 secs):

The piece that sticks in my mind the most is this from Mike Briscoe, north of England transport correspondent, on BBC Radio 5 Live, a few days after the closure announcement. I thought it was such a brilliant and poignant piece I spent a long time typing up his words at the time. Now retrieved and turned into a PDF, so you can read it as well. But I recommend a listen. He conveyed so well, in measured words beautifully delivered, the feelings many of us had at that time. He highlighted the ‘hiatus’ that had led to the closure.

Mike Briscoe on BBC Radio 5 Live, 14 May 1995 (3 mins 47 secs):

Transcript of the above (PDF)

Notes

I have a full C90 audio cassette from which these extracts were taken. I recorded it on one of those bulky radio cassette recorders, in a flat on Bootham where I was living at the time. The cassette is one of many I made a digital copy of earlier this year. I haven’t asked for permission from the BBC to include these extracts but I trust no one objects.