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THE British Steel Gala was one of the highlights in the Teesside calendar.
It started in the summer of 1977, when 20,000 people attended the first one at Redcar racecourse.
It featured a circus and fairground and a parade of decorated floats made by workers on various plants.
The event was born from an idea by then Teesside Works director David Ford and was designed for employees and their families.
More than 2,500 people of the workforce paid a monthly subscription to help fund it.
It became hugely popular with displays ranging from camel racing to motorcycle stunt teams, family fun from tug of war to It's A Knockout style challenges and music from the works' brass band.
The float parade was always a crowd pleaser.
Every year, men across the different works designed and built their own creations to display on the backs of lorries.
It later became known as the Teesside Steel Gala.
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I’d like to see the articles referring to THE British Steel Gala which was one of the highlights in the Teesside calendar.
It started in the summer of 1977, when 20,000 people attended the first one at Redcar racecourse.
It featured a circus and fairground and a parade of decorated floats made by workers on various plants.
The event was born from an idea by then Teesside Works director David Ford and was designed for employees and their families.
More than 2,500 people of the workforce paid a monthly subscription to help fund it.
It became hugely popular with displays ranging from camel racing to motorcycle stunt teams, family fun from tug of war to It's A Knockout style challenges and music from the works' brass band.
The float parade was always a crowd pleaser.
Every year, men across the different works designed and built their own creations to display on the backs of lorries.
It later became known as the Teesside Steel Gala.