Favorite old Brighton and Hove bus route.....

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Extending it - The No.9 from Barnes to Hammersmith and beyond to the Aldwych. Great route - alongside the river briefly at Barnes, past the pond and across the river at Hammersmith. A classic route.

 

[Jesus Gul]

It was always a toss up between the 26 by Woodbourne garage or the 5C that stopped by the Woodbourne shops

 

[goldstone]

Any of the trolleybus routes. Those were the days.

Oh, and the open top 17 Sea Front Service.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

i also used to get 5B from preston park [lovers walk stop] to fawcett

I used the 5B to get to and from school (St. Andrew's)... I think I got on at the bottom of Holmes Avenue on Old Shoreham Road but the memory's a bit hazy and it could have been up on Neville Road/Avenue...?

 

[Man of Harveys]

I'd say you could never beat the sublime beauty offered up by the experience of catching a 27 bus full of chatty old dears from Saltdean seafront into town on a sunny Saturday morning. Ehh, now it's all hoodies and yardies and whatnot.

 

[Titanic]

I used the 5B to get to and from school (St. Andrew's)... I think I got on at the bottom of Holmes Avenue on Old Shoreham Road but the memory's a bit hazy and it could have been up on Neville Road/Avenue...?

Indeed your memory is hazy!

The 5B went from the Grenadier, down Nevill Avenue (passed Bishop Hannington Church/Holmes Avenue) , turned right at the dog track and down Nevill Road, crossing the lights into Sackville Road.

The 5, however, left the Grenadier, taking the alternate route down Elm Drive, turned right, down the bottom part of Holmes Avenue, and then left along Old Shoreham Road, before making a right turn at the lights into the aforementioned Sackville Road.

It is most likely, therefore, that you caught the 5B to school.

Obviously it was preferable to catch the 5B home also, to avoid the trudge up Holmes Avenue.

 

[The Oldman]

5b for me too as I lived in Sherbourne Road where the route started. When I lived in Amberley Drive though then the 8 was the one for me.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Indeed your memory is hazy!

The 5B went from the Grenadier, down Nevill Avenue (passed Bishop Hannington Church/Holmes Avenue) , turned right at the dog track and down Nevill Road, crossing the lights into Sackville Road.

The 5, however, left the Grenadier, taking the alternate route down Elm Drive, turned right, briefly, down the bottom part of Holmes Avenue, and then left along Old Shoreham Road, before making a right turn at the lights into the aforementioned Sackville Road.

It is most likely, therefore, that you caught the 5B to school.

Obviously it was preferable to catch the 5B home also, to avoid the trudge up Holmes Avenue.

thanks for the clarification...

looking back you would have thought it was preferable to catch the 5B home as well but I seem to remember regularly sacrificing the comfort of the bus in favour of a packet of "football" crisps or sometimes a currant bun... (either of which were available for the 5p cost of the bus...)

 

[33057 Seagull]

The number 11 from the Mill House, Portslade to The Grenadier via Whitehawk Bus Garage if I remember correctly. Took it once all the way with a mate one Saturday morning it cost 11 pence (in old money). Walked back across the golf course.

 

[The Wookiee]

That roundabout never got the respect it deserved

was it not the no. 11, the old blue corporation bus, that trashed that roundabout ?

3a anybody ?

West Blatchington to Hove Station

 

[Dave the OAP]

19 to patcham

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

What about the old Southdown open top buses that ran along the seafront and up to the Dyke? Do they still run in the summer?

I remember my sunglasses blowing off my head outside the Grand Hotel one day on a trip out and when I cam back 2 hours later amazingly they were still in the gutter.

Obviously crap sunglasses!

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

What about the old Southdown open top buses that ran along the seafront and up to the Dyke? Do they still run in the summer?

I remember my sunglasses blowing off my head outside the Grand Hotel one day on a trip out and when I cam back 2 hours later amazingly they were still in the gutter.

Obviously crap sunglasses!

I used to go on those buses with my mates in the summer too. Great fun.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Does anyone remember the 5C?

Being brought up in the Preston Park area im sure i remember a 5C??

The 5C used to the 46. I used to get both on occasions, and the number 10 from Westedene to St Peters on Saturdays. What was the number bus before the 81 that used to go along Queens Park Road?

 

[Kenhead]

I use to like the 81 which went from the station up to meadowview. They have now replaced it with the 37 which starts from london road, so means i have to walk down to st. peters church to get a bus rather than just sit on the 81 if i really couldn't be arsed to walk far from the station!

 

[Emily's Mum]

It was always a toss up between the 26 by Woodbourne garage or the 5C that stopped by the Woodbourne shops

The 5C at Woodbourne shops! That must have been after my time. The good old No 19 went that way, superceded by the 16. If that wasn't available it was the 26 to the top of woodbourne Avenue or the 46 to the bottom.

I met my first husband on the No 6 from Brighton Station to Portslade & he proposed on the No 3 on the way from Whitehawk!

 

[Knightsworld]

The 60 Shuttle from Mile Oak, every 10 minutes service back then was a luxury. And the buses looked nice with there white and orange livery with SHUTTLE on the side.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Does anyone remember the 5C?

Being brought up in the Preston Park area im sure i remember a 5C??

Yep special peak time service

 

[Horsham Gull]

The best service is the park and ride (Mill road to Withdean) on matchdays

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Not Brighton, but the only times I have really used a bus was in Edinburgh, in that case it was either the 4, 43, 44 or 66 as they all took me home from work.

Used to get those buses into work when I stayed in Edinburgh! I take it you stayed in Slateford?

In Brighton I used to get the no 26 bus from Hollingbury into town or the no. 5B (I think) from outside the Long Man of Wilmington into town. Didn't the 5B go all the way up to the Goldstone? Long time ago now.

I always thought the hardest bus was the no.49 bus up to Moulescomb...