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, 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.
A wonderfully atmospheric shot. Thanks for sharing this.
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