In the late 60's a delivery firm based in Formby brought a great many NBC vehicles destined for north west operations. Here we see four Ribble RE's and two Crosville coaches. Three of the RE’s can be identified as 247,250 & 251 [HRN247/50/1G].
A unique vehicle in the Ribble fleet was 774 (ACK774B) a Leyland Panther PSUR1/2RT with Marshall DP49F bodywork. The vehicle dates from 1966 and was photographed on the Pleasureland coachpark in Southport
This is a series of photo's taken at London Transport's Aldenham Works. Most were taken at the Open Day on September 16th 1979. All photo's were taken by John Heighway and kindly donated by him. Thanks John.
Here are five of the Bamber Bridge Motor Services photos. Please see The Ribble File for an explanation of how these arrived here.
10th November - all photos of Bamber Bridge MS are now loaded
Here are eight of the Preston Corporation photos. Please see The Ribble File for an explanation of how these arrived here.
11TH November - this now completes the upload of all the photos into The Preston Corporation File
A few weeks ago a friend of mine went into a second hand bookshop in Preston looking for some old maps. What he came across was totally unexpected. There were four loose-leaf files containing a vast amount of photos and fleet information for Scout, Standerwick, Bamber Bridge Motor Services, Preston Corporation, Ribble and Crosville. For Preston and Crosville there were also bus tickets in the respective files. All the fleet details had been hand written and, in respect of the Ribble group vehicles, information stating which this person had driven or worked on. This led us to believe that he may have been an employee of the Company. However, there was no name of the person that had built this collection anywhere throughout the folders. The photographs and tickets had been glued onto lined paper, which leads us to believe that they are all bought and not taken by this person. None show any details of who took the photos or when they were taken. I have scanned all the photos and now have them on disc. I will put a few on my site so that you can view them and, perhaps, shed some light on this mysterious person. By doing this, I hope that I am not breaking any copyright rules because, as mentioned earlier, the photos have no names of the photographers placed on them (front or back). They will be put on my site as The ………. File (with the corresponding operator filling the gap). There are 9 Bamber Bridge, 36 Crosville, 53 Preston, 40 Scout, 22 Standerwick and about 200 Ribble (I have not yet finished editing them yet) photos. The Crosville File can be found on that section of my site. Your comments would be welcome!!
Here are ten of the Ribble photos
11th November - there are now 51 photos in The Ribble File. These are all that I have so far edited. More over the next few weeks.
25th November - This collection is now complete
Here are six of the Scout photos. Please see The Ribble File for an explanation of how these arrived here
10th November - all photos are now published in the Scout File
Here are eight of the Standerwick photos. Please see The Ribble File for an explanation of how these arrived here
11th November - This now completes the upload of all the photos into The Standerwick File.
Welcome to Shooting the Past Gallery. This will contain mainly black & white photos from all parts of the UK, most of which have been kindly donated by jh. Some, such as the File series, have been moved here from my UK Buses Gallery for completeness. Many of the photos from A-Z of Buses [part 1] have also been moved into this gallery [with a few more to do in the near future]. I hope you enjoy looking through these photos of buses from the 60's and early 70's.