POPS at Hanley: Keeping those memories alive

The Sixties and the early Post-Deregulation period before the 'corporate age' set in were my favourite times bus-wise. The latter being a kind of final colourful flowering or 'indian summer' with new and rekindled identities liveries, almost surreal developments and hedonistic expansion, and of course Leyland's attempt to rekindle our affections with a return to it's cat badge culture before the under-fed and no longer so sprightly feline was run over by the more businesslike Volvo. All that is a distant memory now. Or is it? Thankfully not only can we keep it alive thanks to video and places like Flickr there are friends who gather and even take us to events for which I'm truly grateful. Sadly the Tiger saw little of the success of the RTW of the Leyland PD2 family or Leopards seen here at  POPS Rally at Clough Street, Hanley in the 80's.