Buses

[Kev]

http://www.mttrust.co.uk/Images/RunningDayLineUp.JPG (http://www.mttrust.co.uk/Images/RunningDayLineUp.JPG)

An excellent picture I came across whilst browsing the site of one of our newest members: Merseyside Transport Trust (http://www.mttrust.co.uk/)

[mike delamar]

very smart :handclap:

[goldenface]

Some great pics there. A lot of memories coming back lol.

[Ged]

Brill pic, have to look at that site.

[theninesisters]

I'm still a big kid when a double decker bus comes along and I have to sit at the front at the top to get a birds eye view over people's gardens :PDT11

We had two old buses at St Mags (you remember them Kev?) they used to belch out the most amazing smoke and I remember we sent one 1st year in to the garage to get a ball just as they were cranking up the engine. Poor sod came out black :)

[Kev]

We had two old buses at St Mags (you remember them Kev?) they used to belch out the most amazing smoke and I remember we sent one 1st year in to the garage to get a ball just as they were cranking up the engine. Poor sod came out black :)

The one we used was called "Old Faithful" and would take hours and hours to get to Anglesea, good fun though.

[lindylou]

What a lovely picture. :handclap:

I'll take a look at that web-site later. :)

[theninesisters]

The one we used was called "Old Faithful" and would take hours and hours to get to Anglesea, good fun though.


Old faithful - that's the one! A bluey green colour if I can remember. Always piloted by 'jock' Davidson, and we used to liken him to Mackay from Porridge! :)

[marie]

Great picture!! :PDT11
Nobody has a photo about old Pennylane bus?

[MerseysideTransportTrust]

Hi Kev
Glad you liked the site!

We're doing another running day and a few events in Liverpool for the 07 celebrations.
Everybody welcome to join us and enjoy the fun!

More photos and links to events at www.mttrust.co.uk

regards

Rob
MTT Trustee

[MerseysideTransportTrust]

Yeah remember the single deckers run by John Wilkinson from St Margarets a few have passed on for continued preservation around the country

regards

Rob

[MerseysideTransportTrust]

Marie, Heres a link to me driving our 1972 Atlantean to "Penny lane" on our running day last September

http://simon99.fotopic.net/p35858861.html

There are some great shots on our website www.mttrust.co.uk under photo collections enjoy!

Rob

[marie]

Marie, Heres a link to me driving our 1972 Atlantean to "Penny lane" on our running day last September

http://simon99.fotopic.net/p35858861.html

There are some great shots on our website www.mttrust.co.uk under photo collections enjoy!

Rob

Great photos of somes buses in the first link. In the second link, there are a lot of olds photos. Thanks u!!

[theninesisters]

Yeah remember the single deckers run by John Wilkinson from St Margarets a few have passed on for continued preservation around the country

regards

Rob

John 'Wilko' Wilkinson was the BEST teacher in St Mags. Always had time for you when you took an interest in CDT and his numerous Jags too.

I remember once he built a go-kart and thrashed it around the large yard before being told off by one of the other teachers :PDT11

[ScouseLad]

John 'Wilko' Wilkinson was the BEST teacher in St Mags. Always had time for you when you took an interest in CDT and his numerous Jags too.


I had Wilko for CDT. Remember once he insisted that my own metal ruler was one of his! He took it and wouldn't give me it back. It was mine as well - my dad "borrowed" it from Fords for me :unibrow: I was still crap at CDT tho!

[MariaC]

I remember the Maggies before it got took over by Cardinal Heathens. There was a Mr. Wainwright who was the headmaster of the juniors.

[xkopite]

Brill bus site for those of us who travelled on the Corpy buses.

[It's Paul Freeman!]

I have just spent an hour or so going through all of these wonderful photos of the buses. Absolutely brilliant!

It has been a long time since I was back in England and I often reminisce about my childhood days in Garston riding the buses to Hunts Cross, Speke and in to the city centre.

Can anyone possibly satisfy my curiosity; I remember a bus that used to stop at the bottom of Window Lane back in the 60’s. It stopped on the corner of York Street and Window Lane by a pub that I think was called The Clarence. I am trying to recall the number of that bus. I am thinking that it was the number 66 and it used to say Lee Park on in it. The trouble is I am recalling this through a child’s eyes and I may be wrong.

I want to write a song/poem about how I used to love the smell of the diesel fumes from that bus because we didn’t have cars on our street back then. I would like to make sure that I get my facts right. If anyone can confirm a double-decker that was the number 66 to Lee Park that went to the bottom of Window Lane in Garston I would be extremely grateful.

Such lovely memories…

[Ged]

Paul. I'll see if it's in this when I get home.

[Ged]

Paul. The 66 went from Garston to Lee Park as you stated.

This is the route in 1964.

Vulcan st or St. Mary's Rd (Garston old road)
St. Mary's Rd (Speke rd) or Harwood Rd school or via Whitehedge rd.
Mather Ave
Allerton Road
Menlove Ave
Woolton St
Halewood Road (Out Lane) or Hunts Cross Avenue (Manor Rd)
Gateacre Station
Westbrook Road or Naylors Road
Wood Lane.

[Norm NZ]

Paul. The 66 went from Garston to Lee Park as you stated.

This is the route in 1964.

Vulcan st or St. Mary's Rd (Garston old road)
St. Mary's Rd (Speke rd) or Harwood Rd school or via Whitehedge rd.
Mather Ave
Allerton Road
Menlove Ave
Woolton St
Halewood Road (Out Lane) or Hunts Cross Avenue (Manor Rd)
Gateacre Station
Westbrook Road or Naylors Road
Wood Lane.
Re the 66 Bus Route: Ged, parts of your route confuses me! the 66 in (my day) started at the bottom of Window lane, thenleft into Banks Rd, ACROSS St Marys Rd (Bottom of the village) up Woolton Rd, past the Cenotaph, past woolton Woods to Woolton Village, Down to Belle Vale via Hunts Cross ave and then returned to Window Lane by the reverse route. That was prior to 1963, so route may have changed since then. Cheers:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[John(Zappa)]

Ged,any idea of the No10 bus route.
I know it went by Derby Rd.My mum was a clippie on that bus.
Cheers mate and good work:handclap:

[Ged]

I used to get the No.10 in Norton street outside the Midland bank in the 1970s to my mate up in Old Swan.

According to my 1964 book:

It is the Prescot to City route as follows:

Oliver Lyme Road/Manchester Road (B.I.C.C. factory)
West Street
Knowsley Lane
Hillside Road
Altmoor Road
Page Moss
Lordens Road
Finch Lane
Eaton Road
Blackhorse Lane
Old Swan
Green Lane
Holland Street
Sheil Road
Low Hill
Stafford Street
Clayton Square/Central Station
South Castle Street or Pier Head (various)

Other variations are the 10A, 10B, 10C, 10D

C for instance meant via Castle St, D = via Dale Street.

[John(Zappa)]

Interesting.
Thanx a bunch mate:PDT11

[wallasey]

Re the 66 Bus Route: Ged, parts of your route confuses me! the 66 in (my day) started at the bottom of Window lane, thenleft into Banks Rd, ACROSS St Marys Rd (Bottom of the village) up Woolton Rd, past the Cenotaph, past woolton Woods to Woolton Village, Down to Belle Vale via Hunts Cross ave and then returned to Window Lane by the reverse route. That was prior to 1963, so route may have changed since then. Cheers:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

The 66 doesnt run anymore to my knowledge!

If you want to get from St Mary's Road (for instance) to Wood Lane, you have to jump on one of the buses going to the Airport (lets say the 80A) and then change at the Airport Bus Interchange; then jump onto the 89 (Airport-St Helens) untill you get to Belle Vale Shopping Centre, and then change again to jump onto the 79 which terminates on Wood Lane.

There might be a more direct, but less frequent way of getting from Garston to Lee Park but the above is what an Arriva Ticket Holder would do!

[skgogosfan]

Perhaps Merseytravel's 166?
http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/choose_service.asp

Dave.

[phredd]

I used to get the No.10 in Norton street outside the Midland bank in the 1970s to my mate up in Old Swan.

According to my 1964 book:

It is the Prescot to City route as follows:


Other variations are the 10A, 10B, 10C, 10D

C for instance meant via Castle St, D = via Dale Street.


I think the 10C terminated at Page Moss and the 10D terminated at Longview.
We lived in Radway Road at the time.
As for the 10A & 10B not sure.
Phredd

[gerry_2]

I think the 10C terminated at Page Moss and the 10D terminated at Longview.
We lived in Radway Road at the time.
As for the 10A & 10B not sure.
Phredd
10a terminated at Knoty Ash and the 10b at Dovecote.

[phredd]

10a terminated at Knoty Ash and the 10b at Dovecote.

Thanks for that
Phredd

[disco]

Saw this London bus at the pierhead this morning,What excuss will stan and jack have for blakey

[It's Paul Freeman!]

Thanks Ged for checking that out to me. It was a long time ago but that was the only bus we ever saw at the bottom of Window Lane in them days. It would be right on the corner of Window Lane and either York Street or Vulcan Street as they both crossed Window Lane as one road but with two different names.

BTW: Your work on the Tennies is absolutely fantastic. My memories of them are at Speke Road Gardens. My Auntie Freda & Uncle Eric George were over the moon to move in to them after all those year on York Street.

Keep up all of your great work mate!!

Paul

[SteH]

I went to a transport fair at Llandudno over the weekend and saw these three Wallasey Corportation buses, I understand they were on loan from the Wirral Transport Museum.

[MerseysideTransportTrust]

I went to a transport fair at Llandudno over the weekend and saw these three Wallasey Corportation buses, I understand they were on loan from the Wirral Transport Museum.

They are actually based at the wirral transport Museum in Birkenhead rob

[PhilipG]

The C added to ANY route number indicated that the bus went down Church Street, and D was for Dale Street.

When I first came to Liverpool (1968), the fares were 3d, 6d, 9d, 1/-.
I can't remember what the maximum was.

Ged, does your book say?

[tpoo22]

Whenever I think of Liverpool buses from the MPTE days in the 1970s, I'm always reminded of the almost ubiquitous sign fixed to the windows.


WILFUL DAMAGE TO SEATS, ETC.
THE EXECUTIVE WILL PRESS FOR HEAVIEST PENALTIES AGAINST OFFENDERS


Almost every one of them had been vandalised to read slightly differently! I'm sure most of you will remember what the Executive was intent upon!:eek:

[hmtmaj]

Whenever I think of Liverpool buses from the MPTE days in the 1970s, I'm always reminded of the almost ubiquitous sign fixed to the windows.


WILFUL DAMAGE TO SEATS, ETC.
THE EXECUTIVE WILL PRESS FOR HEAVIEST PENALTIES AGAINST OFFENDERS


Almost every one of them had been vandalised to read slightly differently! I'm sure most of you will remember what the Executive was intent upon!:eek:

I'm guessing the little scamps scratched out the "ALTIE",
but it's just a guess :unibrow:

[tpoo22]

Pretty close! As I remember it, the sign was invariably altered to read:


WILFUL DAMAGE TO SEATS, ETC.
THE EXECUTIVE WILL PRESS H I S PEN I S AGAINST OFFENDERS

which is a little bit funny to my peurile mind even today, but the extraordinary thing was that almost every single bus in Liverpool had been vandalised in this way. Like a human version of an ant colony, the bus passengers of Liverpool had decided as one mind to deface the notice wherever they found it.

[ayjaykay]

When the company was privatised (as Merseybus) they got new stickers with 'Management' in place of 'Executive'. But people changed 'Management' to 'Man' and the joke still worked :)

[gregs dad]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2628244013_5d8e0b5678_o.jpg
Anybody going cockling on Moreton shore?
took this on Woodside today.

[skgogosfan]

Ooh that's a lovely shot! I can see where GM Buses got their idea for their Birkenhead and District escapade's livery from!

Dave.

[LondonBeatlesFan]

I am a huge fan of old buses and travel around the south east visiting various rallies. I wanted to visit Liverpool again and decided that my next visit should coincide with the MTT running day in September. It was a beautiful day and I enjoyed every minute of it. There were some lovely old buses which I'd never seen before. I recommend this event to everyone and will certainly try to attend again next year. I have posted a couple of slideshows of the event on YouTube. Please feel free to take a look. The URL for my page is in my profile.