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.
Sunday, 9 March 2008
August Bank Holiday in Blackpool: Waiting for the Heavens to open up
This was an awful dull wet early-Eighties day and because of the contrast provided by puddles and reflections it was much easier to take photographs once the impending rain fell providing I kep't my lense dry. In the heavy gloom No.12 HE 8054 (PWB 252R) a Yorkshire Traction Duple Dominant Express bodied Leyland Leopard pauses outside the Collesium Bus Station long enough for me to get a shot of a English Electric tram dating from 1935 that had been rebuilt by Blackpool Corporation in 1935 returning to the depot next door in Blundell Street. Despite the weather I was quite pleased to get this view all the same as it was not always easy to get buses and trams together except on the Promanade.
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