Plymouth Beacon Park Road again

Western National Double Decker's are a distant memory in my home village of Buckland Monachorum. a 1991 view of the school bus passing the local pub. which in those days you could enjoy a smoke in, before the passing of these evil and unecesary anti smoking laws. The Pub still recommended.

Pure nostalgia the old Fort William Station - now demolished and replaced by the new by-pass- as a Highland Omnibus Coach drifts towards the level crossing, as does D5396+D5395 on a special from Plymouth. 28-04-73. With much tooting of various horns, both drivers came to an abrupt halt.

Scene out side Hounslow Underground Station 26 October 1973

The amazing scene of an Eastern Counties Bristol LD on the Great Eastern Main Line!!!! The bus too big to use the little underbridge.05 Aug 1972

The daily bus of interest passing the Drake Manor in Buckland Monachorum April 2009. This daily working runs on school days only.

A fleet of Lodekka Buses await outside Penzance Station to take participants in the Wirral Railway Circle "Great Britain Railtour" to Penzance, 27 May 1974

Plymouth Route 27 was a casualty of this horrid European Union we should get out of at once. The route was deemed too long under EU regulations for a Stage Carriage Route, what a load of nonsense. In more sensible times, the special Plymouth Corporation Livery for the 1977 Jubilee celebrations seen in North Road West

Climbing away from Wolseley Home, NDR 97 on route 37, 23 May 1970

To me, the PD 2 represented the very best of urban bus design. NDR 90 at the top of Dingle Road in Plymouth 23 May 1970. Just think, you could get a bus like this to the Station and then catch a train hauled by a Class 52 "Western", and you could smoke as well.

My Local Bus Route, well one of them, the erstwhile no 36 Circular at the top of Beacon Park Road, Plymouth. NDR 91 23 May 1970

The Chudleigh By Pass of the A38 almost brand new, and more or less the site of the former Teign Valley Branch Line. Plymouth Corporation Leyland National no 63 on a private charter to Minehead for disabled children. 9 April 1977

Diverting into Exeter on the A38, another Charter with a Plymouth Corporation Atlantean

Plymouth Marsh Mills Roundabout, 1972. The Wembury route was the last PD2 operated route.

A Plymouth Corporation PD 2 awaits its school children for their trip on Weston Mill Hill, Summer 1970

The scene at Peverell Corner is remarkably unchanged, doubt if you could stand here now mind to take a phot with all the traffic. The OCO series like OCO 506 seen here were rare performers on the 36 and 37 circular routes. Summer 1970

A view from the Civic Centre in Plymouth looking up Royal Parade taken by my late Father, Mr. W.A. Mills in April 1964. Regretably the public not allowed on the roof nowadays, due to condition of the Civic Centre and no doubt piles of Health & Safety Rules and Regulations. Also, the roof deck had to be closed off due to the number of people jumping off it for all the wroung reasons.

No 63 again on the Minehead Charter surmounting the top of Haldon Hill near Exeter on the A38. Note the lack of growth and traffic. Imagine parking up today on the verge and running into the middle of the road to photograph the Bus.

A real blast from the blast, October 1965 view of a Reading Corporation Trolley Bus which has just passed under the Great Western Main Line, note the signs directing one to Reading West Station. Note also the traffic.

Buses and coaches await custom at Windsor & Eaton Central Station 04 May 1977

The early Atlanteans were used by Plymouth Corporation on the Country routes, the bus from Buckland Monachorum has just turened off the A386 for the little bus terminal at Yelverton. April 1964

The local bus in all its glory in the evening sunshine at Yelverton Shops, note the wooden sign proclaiming this was also the bus for Buckland Abbey. Huggins Butcher's to the left is now a hair dressing salon. July 1972