A bus in the landscape ... or more accurately, spot the bus.
A good while ago, I posted a very similar colour image to this, but that one had no bus. The eagle eyed here may just spot a PMT Bristol VR, from the era when the fleet went through a brief period of being titled 'Potteries', its about to stop at the southbound Long Row stop, Kidsgrove. It's obviously a grim day with the playground of the then Kinnersley Memorial school annex looking more like a swimming pool, in fact there's a generally depressing air all round. The Police station's to the left, the old windmill's on the hill and Long Row itself still stands in the 1979 view. The pre-fab building as mentioned above, now a school, was formerly the town's Clinic. The dark area at the foot of the picture marks the old 'Loop Line' railway cutting which virtually paralelled the A50 as far as Hanley and competed for traffic with buses, a battle it would eventually loose. The whole area in the foreground between the ex railway and the bus is now occupied by an Aldi supermarket.
A bus in the landscape ... or more accurately, spot the bus.
A good while ago, I posted a very similar colour image to this, but that one had no bus. The eagle eyed here may just spot a PMT Bristol VR, from the era when the fleet went through a brief period of being titled 'Potteries', its about to stop at the southbound Long Row stop, Kidsgrove. It's obviously a grim day with the playground of the then Kinnersley Memorial school annex looking more like a swimming pool, in fact there's a generally depressing air all round. The Police station's to the left, the old windmill's on the hill and Long Row itself still stands in the 1979 view. The pre-fab building as mentioned above, now a school, was formerly the town's Clinic. The dark area at the foot of the picture marks the old 'Loop Line' railway cutting which virtually paralelled the A50 as far as Hanley and competed for traffic with buses, a battle it would eventually loose. The whole area in the foreground between the ex railway and the bus is now occupied by an Aldi supermarket.