[Default] On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:55:56 +0000 (GMT), BARRY HOLLAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::
>Greatly enjoyed looking at these old buses.I can distinctly remember running >fit to burst trying to catch a 142 that had just left the old Granville Road >swimming baths on its way to Cricklewood. That was the great thing, if you had >the speed [sadly no more] you could grab that curly pole & leap aboard. I used to do the opposite: when I was travelling across Nottingham from junior school to home (I'd stayed at the school as I'd only got a year left when we moved out of the catchment area). I used to "drop off" the rear platform of the trolleybus as it slowed down to negotiate the overhead junction at the end of Broad Marsh. I used to "hit the ground running" (literally) but could pull up sharply and do a u-turn down Broad Marsh, saving a 50 yards walk back from the official stop and sometimes making the difference between just catching the bus or having to wait 20 minutes. I only recall going ar$e over tip twice! Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk (Waterways World Site of the Month, November 2005)
