End of season Classic Car show at Ryhope

Cycling from Hetton-le-Hole to Ryhope for the end of season classic car show

About.

Hetton legend Bob Paisley

Bob was a Durham miner and Liverpool FC ‘s most successful manager.

Bob is pictured taking the European Cup and First Division trophy back home to Hetton-le-Hole in 1977.

Bob left Eppleton School at the age of 14 and joined his father to work at Hetton Lyons Colliery.

He then became an apprentice bricklayer at Blackhall while playing football for Bishop Auckland, winning the FA Amateur Cup in 1939.

He transferred to Liverpool FC shortly afterwards, but the outbreak of the Second World War meant he didn’t make his debut for the club until January 1946.

Bob served in the Royal Artillery for the duration of the war, seeing active service in Egypt, Libya and Italy. One of the legendary ‘Desert Rats’, he fought at the Battle of El Alemain, and participated in the Liberation of Rome.

Returning from the war, he helped Liverpool win their first league title in 24 years.

Following his retirement from playing, Bob joined Liverpool’s back room staff in 1954, and served as Bill Shankly’s assistant for 15 years before becoming first team manager in 1974.

He is the most successful manager in Liverpool’s history, winning 20 trophies, including 6 league championships, 3 European Cups, 3 League Cups, and a UEFA Cup.

He retired as Liverpool manager in 1983, but remained at the club as advisor to Kenny Dalglish, and then as club director until 1992.

Bob Paisley died aged 77 on February 14 1996.

Liverpool FC installed the Paisley Gates at Anfield in tribute, and a memorial was placed in his home village of Hetton-le-Hole.

Of his Durham Coalfield upbringing, Bob said: “Hetton-le-hole is a typical Durham mining village, a close-knit community, where coal was king and football was religion. My father was a miner, and although he never wanted any of his four sons to down the pit, there didn’t seem to be many alternatives. We lived in a small terraced house, and although we never went short of life’s essentials, there was never much money left over by the end of the week.”

Information taken from Durham Minera Gala post from 2019

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The Ryhope Engines Museum is a visitor attraction in the Ryhope suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. The Grade II* listed building is a popular landmark in Ryhope and is based at The Ryhope Pumping Station, operational for 100 years before closing in 1967

bit a cold one this morning. Um and you have to pardon the voice about what we call in the northeast that really bad cold around. So um today we’re starting our journey at Tet Memorial Park behind as you can see the Bob Paisy Memorial. um he came from Heton and he went on to manage Liverpool and won multiple trophies with him. And if you’ve ever been to Anfield, you’ll see the um Heton Crest on the the gates at Anfield. And just by the way, you’ve got the cross there for all those who died in conflict over the years. So we’re going to have a ride down to um Riot Riot Pumping Station. There’s the end of the season classic car show one down there. So we’ll get on the old lines. So, we’ll follow them down and just steady away today. So, I’ll uh jump on the bike and I’ll see you down in a submarine. If you get on to the next train to somewhere you never been. If you want to ride in a fast car, feel the wind in your head. Darling, just look beside you. Oh, I go with you anywhere. Oh, and I will be with you when the darkest winter comes. Oh, and I will be with you to feel the California sun. Oh, and I will be with you in the night time with you. [Music] Oh, I go anywhere with you. [Music] Get up in the hillside. If you ride out on the plains. If you go digging up dirt, you go out dancing in the rain. If you go chasing rainbows just to find the gold ain’t there. Darling, just look behind you. Oh, I’ll go with you anyway. [Music] And I will be with you. Oh, and I will be with you. [Music] So, we’re about about 3 4 miles in something like that. Today’s ride isn’t a massive ride to be honest with you. Um, we’re on the Hawthorne to ride line now. It’s it’s fairly straight run. And what we once we get past the seat uh junction, which is the next one, there the paths turning like tarmac. It’s all been tarmac. And it’s a really nice ride. Um, like most of the rides around this area, Southernland and the Durham area, um, the cycling’s really good because most of it, as I’ve said in previous videos, it’s all railway lines. Um, most of them are quite flat. It’s very rarely you get a steep bank on one of these. So, um, yeah, it makes for like really enjoyable rides. So, um, I think there’s probably about another three mile to go, maybe four tops. So, we’ll go turn the bike around and uh we’ll get back on it. See, I go anywhere with you. I go anywhere with you. Oh, I go anywhere. [Music] So, we’re down at RI now, not far to go. It’s a nice feature on the run there. There, the old uh foot bridge at RI there. Just a nod back to its um its heritage, its railway heritage. It’s um a really nice feature. Could have easily been pulled down along with the rest of the railway, but it’s still here. It still exists. So, I’ll make it a go and we’ll see you at the airport soon. [Music] Times they change. Factories close. Take a ride on a ghost train. Stare at the windows. Time moves fast as a hurricane. But it’s so strange. Feels so slow. Sometimes it gets so cold down here. Hey, I swear it burns. Wind like fire coming off of the grave. [Music] Sometimes it gets so dark in here. Yeah, I see it. The emptiness that moves within my soul. We own down in the ghost town. [Music] Hey [Music] See the crash and the rust. See the ash and the dust. Feel it slipping through your hands. Falling on the shoes and the shoulders. The ragged man. See the pride and the shame like fire and the flame burns through every man. Drops him like drunken. soldiers on the river banks [Music] where sometimes it gets so cold down here. Hey, I swear it burns. The wind like fire calling off the great legs. Yes, sometimes it gets so dark in here. Yeah, I see a turn. The emptiness that moves within my soul. We own down in the ghost town. [Music] Yeah, sometimes it gets so cold down here. Hey, I swear it burns. The wind like fire coming off the gray legs. Yes, sometimes it gets so dark in here. I see it turn the emptiness that moves within my soul. We own down in the ghost town. [Music] [Music] Right, we’re off the bike now. Um, had a quick look around the cars behind, as you can see, Riot Pton Station. The building itself is grade two listed and it’s been there for over 150 years and its working life was 100 years. It’s now a working museum. If you to come down just check the website. It does have um tears where you can go in have a look around. The boilers are steamed up and uh you can see the engine’s working and it’s a lovely warm experience on a day like today. So, um, I’m going to get myself a coffee and then we’ll probably get back on the bike and start to head home. [Music] Remember we were young. [Music] [Music] We look back to the best of days, collecting our yesterday as they build up one by one. Oh, how we beg and we borrow. See, we do it tomorrow, but tomorrow never seems to come. Well, that’s our rider ride done. H it’s been a canny ride down. Uh sky got a bit gray. Looks like we could get a bit of rain, but hopefully we’ll get home before it starts rain like canning event. The whole thing’s free and we like free. So, if you like what I’m doing, like and subscribe. I’ll see you in the next one. [Music]