BOATS AND CANALS

A lovely picture book of Samuel Ledgard buses through the years. One of my favourite bus companies. I travelled on them regularly from Leeds and Bramhope, Leeds and Castleford and Leeds and Otley. They never had a bus stop except when in the Leeds area. You just stood at the kerbside and held your hand out as the bus approached. Very useful, as I finished work in Otley at 5pm and the bus left the bus station just across the road at 5pm. I never miss the bus.

There are actually photographs on pages 62 and 63 where I would stand as the bus left the bus station. I would hold my hand out to instruct the driver to stop as I wanted to board the bus. Delightful and wonderful memories.

I have a model of one of their buses on my model railway layout and am shortly to acquire another model. Memories, such lovely memories.

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Sounds like an interesting book. Our local buses were St. Helens corporation and I also have scale models of buses of local routes. As you say memories, in St. Helens there is a transport museum and they have buses from that era there and occasionally do local trips, tickets 1d.

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Maurice

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