One to add to the Poole.
Perhaps the most bitty of all the colourisations I've yet attempted, primarily because the bus isn't filling the screen and there's a fair bit going on around besides. This one was at least aided by being a more crisp 35mm shot, taken with my trusty Zorki 4k rangefinder camera. It represented my first venture into the format though Ilford FP4 film was still my preference. Unfortunately the Zorki had a nasty habit of exposing one side of the frame a little more than the other. Still, to me it represented a step change from what I'd been used to.
This scene shows Pooles of Alsagers Bank Willowbrook bodied Leyland Leopard, XRE 912H turning off Barracks Road, Newcastle under Lyme, into The Ironmarket in 1979. The Ironmarket was at the time, and had been for years previously, a major gathering point for local bus services, but nowadays its largely a pedestrian zone with no through traffic.
XRE 912H was withdrawn at a relatively young age, allegedly due to body frame corrosion . . . this was of course still in the era of The Certifying Officer, the man from the ministry who was god. If he proclaimed the bus wasn't in the best of health structuraly (whether it was or not) his word went and the bus was doomed as a PSV! The bus passed upon withdrawal to a dance troupe from the Penkridge area.
One to add to the Poole.
Perhaps the most bitty of all the colourisations I've yet attempted, primarily because the bus isn't filling the screen and there's a fair bit going on around besides. This one was at least aided by being a more crisp 35mm shot, taken with my trusty Zorki 4k rangefinder camera. It represented my first venture into the format though Ilford FP4 film was still my preference. Unfortunately the Zorki had a nasty habit of exposing one side of the frame a little more than the other. Still, to me it represented a step change from what I'd been used to.
This scene shows Pooles of Alsagers Bank Willowbrook bodied Leyland Leopard, XRE 912H turning off Barracks Road, Newcastle under Lyme, into The Ironmarket in 1979. The Ironmarket was at the time, and had been for years previously, a major gathering point for local bus services, but nowadays its largely a pedestrian zone with no through traffic.
XRE 912H was withdrawn at a relatively young age, allegedly due to body frame corrosion . . . this was of course still in the era of The Certifying Officer, the man from the ministry who was god. If he proclaimed the bus wasn't in the best of health structuraly (whether it was or not) his word went and the bus was doomed as a PSV! The bus passed upon withdrawal to a dance troupe from the Penkridge area.