Grumpy old busybody living in the South West of England. Interested in natural history, social history and passenger transport by road and rail.

I do active conservation work on a number of wildlife sites and am a volunteer on a Heritage Railway.

I also hold a number of voluntary 'administrative' posts with charities to keep me occupied on wet days - together with keeping the letters column of the local paper filled with lively contributions which do not always please all our local councillors!!!

I have a large collection of photographic prints and slides of buses which I have built up over the years. These are mostly my own work but I have bought prints at bus rallies etc. and they do not always have the origin noted on them. Also, in scanning and cataloguing these I have not recorded that information as I had not envisaged making any public use of them. However, having discovered "photo sharing" it seems selfish not to make my photos available to a wider audience. Should I inadvertently include a photo that was not my own - I honestly cannot always remember which are which now - and the copyright owner is not happy at seeing the photo here please let me know and I will remove it immediately.

As can be seen I am not a photographer - I take record shots without regard to technique or 'rules' and I 'shoot from the hip' when something interesting (to me) catches my eye.

I have just come across an amazing website with a vast collection of 1960s bus photos. For those who haven't already found it for themselves here is the address www.sct61.org.uk/ixnnnth.htm