Maidstone & District in East Kent.
A photograph taken by Clem Smith at Hythe (Kent) in the early 1970s, where I believe he had arrived on a railtour to visit the famed Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway. Never one to miss a photo opportunity he put his camera to work both inside and outside the station. Sadly the slides have deteriorated somewhat in the intervening years but with a bit of cleaning up and tweaking this one makes for reasonable viewing.
Maidstone & District had recently become part of the National Bus Company and their traditional green and cream livery saw the addition of NBC style fleetnames prior to re-paints. Here Northern Counties bodied Daimler Fleetline, 82 YKT sets off for Maidstone, passing an East Kent (former Southdown) Marshall bodied Leopard which had been the group's transport, parked outside the railway station.
The red 1600E (?) Mk 2 Cortina would be quite a sought after car nowadays.
Maidstone & District in East Kent.
A photograph taken by Clem Smith at Hythe (Kent) in the early 1970s, where I believe he had arrived on a railtour to visit the famed Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway. Never one to miss a photo opportunity he put his camera to work both inside and outside the station. Sadly the slides have deteriorated somewhat in the intervening years but with a bit of cleaning up and tweaking this one makes for reasonable viewing.
Maidstone & District had recently become part of the National Bus Company and their traditional green and cream livery saw the addition of NBC style fleetnames prior to re-paints. Here Northern Counties bodied Daimler Fleetline, 82 YKT sets off for Maidstone, passing an East Kent (former Southdown) Marshall bodied Leopard which had been the group's transport, parked outside the railway station.
The red 1600E (?) Mk 2 Cortina would be quite a sought after car nowadays.