After negotiating The Cavendish island, 224 & 215 pose for photos on Walbrook Road, once part of the service from Uttoxeter Road to the Midland Station but by Sun. 30 July 1967 normally the preserve of motorbuses, since December 1966

RC 4252 deals with the last strand of spanwire at the corner of Markeaton Lane, as the Kedleston Road route overhead is dismantled, Friday 7 April 1967, just before my 17th. birthday!

It's all over for the Kedleston Road route. This shot was taken on Sat. 25 February 1967, 16 days after closure and the wires for the power booster have already been cut and hang down over the bracket arm on the traction pole, opposite Derby Malt Vinegar Brewery and Sherwin Street. New lamp standards have already been erected here

Chaos on St. Peter's St at the bottom of Babbingon Lane on Mon. 24 July 1967. An unidentified Roe / Sunbeam F4A has to have its booms on the wrong set of wires to negotiate a broken down artic. The motorbus sqeezing past me is Roe / Daimler CVG6 No.135. The motorbus fleet by this time only carried the green (officially Olive Drab) as far as the lowerdeck windows, whereas trolleys still carried it between decks too.

Sunday 30 July 1967 and the NTA tour with 224 leading, posed for photos on Bateman Street, disused since the service to The Cavendish ceased in December 1966

DRC 235 heads back down Ashbourne Road on the 31, at markeaton Hill above the park of the same name, after leaving Prince Charles Avenue on the Mackworth Estate, the last extension to the system in 1952/3. This was taken on a very frosty afternoon, Tues. 3 January 1967

DRC 224 is seen at The Mitre on Harvey Road, on the 41 bound for the Market Place on 24 July 1967.

A general view of Mackworth Estate terminus at morden Green, looking towards Ashbourne Road with a rear view of 237, 20 March 1967

The new order! KRC 175 D, Roe / Daimler Fleetline 175 stands at Kedleston Road terminus on Sat. 25 February 1967. After trolleybuses were withdrawn from the route, it reverted to service 11 both directions and ran only to and from the Market Place for the time being

Morden Green terminus on the last day and conductress Joan Hobson poses for me alongside DRC 223, after my lengthy ride on this trolley. I caught up with Joan some years later for a chat in her flat, not long before she sadly died of cancer.

ARC 515 with generator clearly in tow, formerly being a DMU power unit of BUT manufacture! Another shot at Shelton Lock terminus around 1980

Derby 215 is seen in the old turning circle at Shelton Lock, terminus of trolleybus route 60

ARC 515, DCOD 215 is a 1949 Sunbeam F4 with BTH electrical equipment and Brush H30/26R body, seen at The Mitre on Harvey Road. No overhead wires here! This was a trip out with a mobile generator trailer in tow for power, some years after the system closed with 215 in preservation locally. She now resides at The Black Country Museum in Dudley - well worth a visit!

ARC 507, Derby 207 heads back down Kedleston Road, opposite Markeaton Park allotments, towards the old Toll House and heading for town, April 1966, hotly pursued by a Ford Prefect and a Morris Minor 1000!

DRC 221, Derby 221 outside the Midland Station and heading for town in May 1966. She had only recently been repainted - one of the last!

DRC 230 on Kedleston Road, pulls away from Longford Street, by Clovelly Hotel on Tues. 20 Sept. 1966. 230 was destined to be the LAST TROLLEY ON THIS ROUTE on 11 February 1967 when I rode on it from the terminus to this stop. The scene has changed much and the hotel was demolished during 2005. This was a stop which I used regularly when visiting my grandmother in Longford Street. Note the Standard Vanguard Phase 4!

ARC 507, Derby 207 with trolleybooms down to allow the dupe to pass, on the regular 41 to Harvey Road at Allestree lane End. The unidentified DRC 2** behind is a rush hour extra, with the usual route number 02 for such workings. This was teatime on 6 Sept. 1966. I had gone down to see what was on from my grandparents' house and was delighted to find two trolleys at the terminus!

Sinfin Lane, 6 Sept. 1966 and the overhead is partially dismantled. The route had never been 100% trolleybus worked and succumbed finally that month. The sytem had one more year to go. Note how the wires have been tied off to a traction pole to take up the slack until final removal.

DRC 233 is on the left, waiting for time in Victoria Street, April 1966

Awaiting removal, the overhead stands disused on Duffield Road at Ferrers Way, Oct. / Nov. 1964. This was a wide impressive stretch of road in trolleybus days, dating from 1947

April 1966 finds DRC 225 at the Cavendish, on the 33/55 circuit. Note the advert for Offilers Ales on The Cavendish Hotel. They became part of Bass in 1967. At one time, the Browning Street route headed off to the right of the picture here but closed to trolleys in March 1960.

Market Place April 1966 and two trolleys can be seen, the one on the right bound for Kedleston Road on the 11 and the one opposite for Harvey Road on the 41. Behind it is a Park Royal / Daimler CVG6 of 1957, on crosstown 57 from Duffield Road to Burton Road, a merger of two trolleybus routes closed in October 1964.

Taken by a friend of mine, Duncan Wheeler, this shot shows the overhead wires at Ferrers Way on Duffield Road, after closure of the route to trolleys on 4 Oct. 1964. I never got to photo this route but I did ride on it as a boy. The view is towards the terminus at Kingscroft

DRC 223 on Osmaston Park Road, just after The Mitre island. I stepped off to take this shot and chatted to the conductress, Joan Hobson, before continuing my ride