Stonier of Tunstall bought this Northern Counties bodied Daimler Fleetline off fellow Potteries Independent Turner of Brown Edge. The destination has been hurriedly written on the blind and makes it look like the bus is going to a technology park bus alas this is 1980 and it's heading for the Festival Park which was mooted as bringing prosperity to the area for years to come. In the old and spacious Hanley Bus Station are a nice variety of PMT bus types plus a Fleetline still with Turner.
Someone has pointed out that F. Park might instead be Eaton Park which was served by Stonier.
Those garden festivals were definitely A Thing in the 1980s, weren't they?
ReplyDeleteI never went to one, and I find myself looking back and wondering if I missed something worthwhile. Mind you, I was too young to go to the Potteries variant and too poor to go to Liverpool, so maybe not.
Never yet got to one of the big International Expos, either; bought tickets for Hamburg but never got there. One day, maybe?
Don't suppose the bus operators will be as interesting as Stoniers though!
Ross the first one in Liverpool was the brainchild of Michael Hesaltine as a government inititive to stop people thinking about the riots in Toxteth. No doubt as a quick fix it created some jobs, brought in the day trippers and tourists and made some money for the city. We have the same concept today with those 'Cities of Culture'.
ReplyDeleteThey are not really my thing but I went to the Expo in Lausanne in 1964 on a school outing.