Hi, Bugsy -
Long time, no see. Teesside bridges, eh? I'd sure like to see that Transporter Bridge. The Tees Newport Bridge is a beauty, too. Your song is "Teesside Bridges," recorded by Richard Grainger. Here's a YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVBxDQSUW8A

TEESSIDE BRIDGES
(Erik Gooding)

CHORUS
If you're looking for fine bridges then on Teeside we've got two,
To show what local engineers and laborers can do,
There's one that lifts a stretch of road up out of shipping's way
And another shuffles back and forth a hundred times a day.

When I was just a student lad and working on a grant,
I got me sen a summer job in Dorman's Ackland Plant
Where conditions for the workers hadn't changed in fifty years
And the smell of smoke and manganese hung in the furnace glare.

The output of that plant it would be very hard to beat,
Wi' weary tykes a-toiling in the grim and bloody heat;
But a firm that mak's a better steel just find one if ye can
For that very furnace forged the steel for Sydney Harbour's span.

One day the foreman and me sen were walking to the mess.
We passed five hundred ton o' steel - I'm sure it were no less,
Says he to me, 'The job looks hard, of ingots there's a glut.'
And sure enough a twelve-month and that Ackland Plant were shut.

Now I'll tell ye lads of Brumagem what mak's us fancy cars
And fittings fine electrical and fruit and nut cake bars,
There's not a single one of ya that knows the way we feel
About our area up The North, where we mak' British steel.


Source: http://garrygillard.net/music/DannySpooner/yearslyrics.html. I take it that this is a transcription of the Danny Spooner recording.
Good to see that Garry is back to transcribing lyrics.

Here are Danny Spooner's notes on the song:

For a brief time in the 1970s Erik Gooding worked as a mathematics lecturer in Melbourne and used to visit Frank Traynor's Folk Club where I got to know him. As a student he had taken a job at the Dorman Long Steel Works at Ackland on Teeside, and wrote this song about his experiences. It's a bottler of a song which my brother Mick and his mate Pete nicked - and they do a great job with it too. This recording was made for Ian Ball's Anthology record Danny Spooner and Friends.