Here's my transcription of the Richard Grainger recording, just a bit different from what Garry came up with.

TEESSIDE BRIDGES
(Erik Gooding)

CHORUS
If you're looking for fine bridges then on Teesside we've got two,
To show what local engineers and laborers can do,
There's one of them that lifts itself up out of shipping's way
And the other shuttles back and forth a hundred times a day.

When I was just a college lad and living on a grant,
I went and got a summer job in Dorman's Acklam Plant (?)
Where conditions for the workers never change in fifty years
And fumes of oil and manganese blew (flew) in the furnace flames.

The output of this plant you would be hard-put (too?) to beat,
We wirey types are toiling in the grime and bloody heat;
Why, a firm that makes a finer steel, now tell me if you can
For this furnace made the very steel for Sydney's Harbour span.

One day the foreman and meself was going to the Bess (?).
We passed three hundred ton of steel - I'm sure it was no less,
Says he, 'This job looks for us, of ingots there's a glut.'
And sure enough, by twelve-month, that Acklam Plant was shut.

But I tell you sons of Brumagem who makes us fancy cars
With fittings fine electrical and fruit and nut case (?) bars,
There's not a single one of you that know the way we feel
About this area in the North, where we make British steel.


"Bess" - as in Bessemer?