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severnside gull

Well-known member
May 16, 2007
24,562
By the seaside in West Somerset
The guy who used to walk his sheep round town on a lead

Leo Sayer singing to himself on his way home on the 49 bus before he was a success
 


severnside gull

Well-known member
May 16, 2007
24,562
By the seaside in West Somerset
Southdown were the major bus operators in the South and were green.

Quite right. All trolley buses were corporation run and although you are correct that Southdown buses were green with cream lettering there were two exceptions - the coastal run to Rottindean which operated an open top cream bus (No 17) and a similar cream liveried bus to Arundel (which I think only ran at weekends). Both ran out of Pool Meadow which was the Southdown terminal while Corporation services ran from the Steyne.

Of course in those days the likes of you and I would be reliant on bus services as relatively few families had cars and when they did they weren't usually available for running the kids around in the manner of today's Chelsea taxis :)
 


bigc

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Jul 5, 2003
5,740
I love that photo of the bus with the massive uncle sams advert!

To continue the thread, when the Mazda fountain used to light up at night and each one of the water jets was lit a different colour.
 


skipper734

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Aug 9, 2008
9,189
Curdridge
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Unique to Brighton Police in the summer. 1970 saw the end of these better than a blue flashing light. :clap2:
 








Couldn't Be Hyypia

We've come a long long way together
NSC Patron
Nov 12, 2006
15,962
Near Dorchester, Dorset
The mangle in the changing rooms at the King Alfred

White & Wilson grocers on Robertson Road, next door tot he basketworks and opposite the butchers.

(aal a bit local to where we lived, but a clear part of my childhood - now all sadly gone) The Hovis bakery on The Drove, and opposite, the sweet shop on the corner of Reigate Road and that opposite the Off Licence.
 




MOG

Miserable Old Git
Dec 16, 2007
181
Off My Trolley.
The coach park in Whitehawk Road. The coaches used to unload the day trippers in town and then come to park for the day. On a hot Sunday in summer there could be dozens of them. Groups of us kids would 'borrow' the dustpans and brushs from home, then go down there and offer to clean them out ready for the return journey. The drivers would pay you and any money you found that the passengers had dropped was yours (a great way to earn extra pocket money). This was during the 1950s.
 




















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The mangle in the changing rooms at the King Alfred

White & Wilson grocers on Robertson Road, next door tot he basketworks and opposite the butchers.

(aal a bit local to where we lived, but a clear part of my childhood - now all sadly gone) The Hovis bakery on The Drove, and opposite, the sweet shop on the corner of Reigate Road and that opposite the Off Licence.
Now a mobile phone repairers and a poofy hairdressers
 


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I also watched it from the beach opposite to where it crashed! it only missed the pier by a few feet.
My Mum got some great photos of the actual indeident the wing hitting the mast and actually contacted the pilot, his name was Squadren Leader Steve Johnson. She has loads of correspondence with him and receieved a Christmas Card until well into the 90's. The Red Arrows seldom came back to Brighton after that!!
 




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Would you Adam and Eve it they are only booked in for 18th of September
 


Barry Izbak

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Dec 7, 2005
7,343
Lancing By Sea
Changing trains at Brighton station on the way to school, or the Albion, and trying to work out when the next train was from this board.
 

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