Many know my more recent genre Buses and Girls photography as those earlier buses I really like have all gone so now I enjoy my bus hobby more for the photography. As well as being an artist I owned a small transport business before I retired but today I have a little job too driving a minibus dong a school run to Wolverhampton in the afternoon and occasionally other jobs. It gets me out and about and satisfies my childhood ambition to drive a bus.
Thursday, 8 March 2007
Marlborough Street Bus Station in Bristol
One of my favourite places for bus photography was Marlborough Street Bus Station and depot in Bristol where the light was usually good enough to photograph at either end as the buses went in or out. Also one could enjoy the audible effects of buses like this Leyland National2 which being 999 should have been red like a fire engine, but a real treat was the distinctive 'boom' of the numerous Bristol RE's allocated there too which also carried Leyland engines. It hasn't changed a great deal since the Eighties but the buses there owned by First Group certainly have
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