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.
Monday 25 January 2010
Midland Red in Shrewsbury
Considering this is an enlargement from a primitive 'Junior' old Ilford Sporty negative it's not at all bad. The main reason for it's increase in size is because a publisher wants to use it to illustrate a book of pop lyrics as there is a song there about Barker Street Bus Station in Shrewsbury. This garage was mainly single-deck but about ten double-deckers were on the allocation to work fairly easy town services. However of the 350 D7's delivered SY Garage recieved in 1957 4747 from the last batch new no doubt for the one long run out to Hereford on the X34-5. However in the Sixties a number of new D9's arrived of which 5028 was the first in about 1962.
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