Tuesday 24th September 2024 It’s been a long while since I’ve visited the wonderful Amberley Museum in West Sussex so its annual autumn Bus Show on Sunday was a good opportunity to put that right. It’s a fantastic museum located in a former chalk pit which housed a working quarry doing its business between the... Continue Reading →
Sunday 4th August 2024 London Transport Museum’s programme of behind the scenes tours of disused parts of the Underground gained a new tour last week featuring Holborn. I was fortunate to secure a place on the very first tour on Wednesday morning. Our hosts were the Museum’s very experienced tour guides, Pat and Tommy, who... Continue Reading →
Thursday 20th June 2024 I joined around 50 members of London Transport Museum Friends on a fantastic day out last Wednesday recreating London's most iconic rural bus route and loved every nostalgic minute of it. RF220 leaving Ardeley towards Blind Lane in July 1974. Photo with kind permission of Mike Harris. And it really was... Continue Reading →
Thursday 7th December 2023 By the 1820s the River Thames at Rotherhithe was so congested it had become the M25 of its day. The nearest river crossing for merchants and citizens was London Bridge but that was over two miles away as well as being busy and expensive to use. It's said the river was... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 12th September 2023 London Transport Museum's Hidden London added a new behind-the-scenes tour last week to its programme at Baker Street Underground station. As we were "winding our way" beneath ground level to begin the tour I couldn't get the lyrics of Gerry Rafferty's famous hit of the same name out of my mind.... Continue Reading →
Saturday 4th February 2023 Welcome to another quarterly dose of nostalgia going back 40 years recalling what I got up to as the recently arrived Assistant Traffic Manager (ATM) at Southdown Motor Services Ltd, one of the National Bus Company’s prestigious subsidiaries based in Brighton with an operating area stretching along the south coast from... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 1st November 2022 Welcome to the first instalment of an occasional series looking back to this day 40 years ago. It stems from today being the exact 40th Anniversary of my arrival in Brighton on 1st November 1982 to the role of Assistant Traffic Manager with Southdown. As you can see from my appointment... Continue Reading →
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