Dawlish Drive Daimler.
Another negative I'd had little joy with scanning in the past until finally this semi reasonable one happened along. The original conditions were grim in the extreme and that comes over quite well here!
One of Stonier's trio of excellent ex South Yorkshire PTE Alexander bodied Daimler Fleetlines (NWA 263K ... the best of) stops to deposit and load passengers at the erstwhile Dawlish Drive shops, Bentilee. So far as I know, the entire complex was demolished and replaced, but here the flats above still seem to be in use as such. In the interim, the accommodation was dispensed with and the windows seen here above the shops panelled over. From memory the church in the background is St. Stephen's.
The Bentilee (Bucknall, Stoke on Trent) council estate, once the country's largest, was a hotbed of bus competition and was served my a mass of services which looped around the principal thoroughfares and also by some through routes. From the 1960s to the 1980s PMT and Stoniers were the major providers and many a story could be told about competitiveness!.
Dawlish Drive Daimler.
Another negative I'd had little joy with scanning in the past until finally this semi reasonable one happened along. The original conditions were grim in the extreme and that comes over quite well here!
One of Stonier's trio of excellent ex South Yorkshire PTE Alexander bodied Daimler Fleetlines (NWA 263K ... the best of) stops to deposit and load passengers at the erstwhile Dawlish Drive shops, Bentilee. So far as I know, the entire complex was demolished and replaced, but here the flats above still seem to be in use as such. In the interim, the accommodation was dispensed with and the windows seen here above the shops panelled over. From memory the church in the background is St. Stephen's.
The Bentilee (Bucknall, Stoke on Trent) council estate, once the country's largest, was a hotbed of bus competition and was served my a mass of services which looped around the principal thoroughfares and also by some through routes. From the 1960s to the 1980s PMT and Stoniers were the major providers and many a story could be told about competitiveness!.