BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Thursday 30 July 2009

When is an old grey corrugated iron shed beautiful?


When it houses buses of course and the Southern National depot and works at Yeovil was a motley collection of red brick and tin buildings and a large yard. When I came to school here in Somerset in 1966 for a year the majority of buses were the Bristol LS, and the newest bus was their sole Bristol SULA4 No.692 EDV555D. Of greater interest tucked away in a corner was a number of stored delicenced Bristol K double-deckers. However even in the Leyland National and Minibus-Nineties Southern National could produce something interesting here including this twenty-year-old old Plaxton bodied Bedford of 1974 as the operator had taken over the local Independent Darch and Wilcox from Martock trading as Comfy-Luxe and was running vehicles in the not too different old green and white colours like No.8009.

1 comment:

Andy R said...

A wonderfully atmospheric shot. Thanks for sharing this.

Andrew