David Slater (Spoddendale)'s photos with the keyword: Spoddendale Coachways

The full Spoddendale timetable effective 24 May 1977 spread over four pages (two eastbound and two westbound) plus a fifth page containing general information and the codes used within the timetables themselves. All the handwritten written content was made using a very sharp pencil. I was very fortunate to have access to a photocopier at work to create the literature but had to take into account that the copies it produced were slightly smaller than the originals. When preparing an original I did so on a piece of paper that was a few millimetres larger so the end result came out neatly without featuring any borders.

In addition to the normal summer and winter timetables I also produced timetables outlining the revised services operated over the Christmas and New Year periods each year. Depending on the days the actual holidays fell it would reflect how the services would operate in the days leading up to and immediately after the holidays.

Two of the 122 pages from the ‘Spoddendale Coachways – A Computing Project’ workbook produced at Spurley Hey High School in Gorton, Manchester in the 1970s. The operations of Spoddendale were built into the project and the pupils used the workbook in their lessons primarily to teach them computer programming but also to make them aware of commercial business, geography, mileages, how to read timetables etc.

In the early 1970s Valerie Nolan, a teacher at Spurley Hey High School in Gorton, Manchester, created a ‘Computing Project’ workbook. The operations of Spoddendale were built into the project. The pupils used the workbook in their lessons primarily to teach them computer programming but also touching on commercial business, geography, mileages, how to read timetables etc. The cover of the book, which contained 122 pages, featured a caricature of a jovial looking Spoddendale coach.