Twenty years and a hundred feet of separation
Compared with the 1949/50 scene posted alongside, the Hull Daily Mail photographer was standing some hundred feet or so to the south, taking this Ferensway snapshot in around 1968/69. He is perhaps standing on an upper floor of the now-demolished Paragon House or else in the adjacent former Royal Station Hotel. My edited version zeroes in on the buses. The pedestrian crossing in the foreground leads to the Paragon Square war memorials. A KHCT Leyland PDR1 Atlantean is turning into Jameson Street. It is one of scores of Atlanteans delivered in this bland and angular style between 1960 and 1964, mainly for trolleybus replacement. A glimpse of the 1952-built Hammond’s department store can be seen beyond.
Presenting its derrière is an EYMS AEC Regent V of the VKH-registered batch delivered in 1956, its Willowbrook body featuring the Beverley Bar roof profile. It is almost at the end of its journey, and will shortly turn left into Hull’s famously draughty bus station.
The VKHs were great personal favourites. They were not things of beauty, but they had rich AEC souls. Their emitted the most remarkable sounds: a sweet plaintive noise from the AV470 engine at the front, rasping and snorting flatulence from the rear. I mourned their departure from the EYMS fleet in 1972, but 644 of the batch is a high-profile survivor.
Twenty years and a hundred feet of separation
Compared with the 1949/50 scene posted alongside, the Hull Daily Mail photographer was standing some hundred feet or so to the south, taking this Ferensway snapshot in around 1968/69. He is perhaps standing on an upper floor of the now-demolished Paragon House or else in the adjacent former Royal Station Hotel. My edited version zeroes in on the buses. The pedestrian crossing in the foreground leads to the Paragon Square war memorials. A KHCT Leyland PDR1 Atlantean is turning into Jameson Street. It is one of scores of Atlanteans delivered in this bland and angular style between 1960 and 1964, mainly for trolleybus replacement. A glimpse of the 1952-built Hammond’s department store can be seen beyond.
Presenting its derrière is an EYMS AEC Regent V of the VKH-registered batch delivered in 1956, its Willowbrook body featuring the Beverley Bar roof profile. It is almost at the end of its journey, and will shortly turn left into Hull’s famously draughty bus station.
The VKHs were great personal favourites. They were not things of beauty, but they had rich AEC souls. Their emitted the most remarkable sounds: a sweet plaintive noise from the AV470 engine at the front, rasping and snorting flatulence from the rear. I mourned their departure from the EYMS fleet in 1972, but 644 of the batch is a high-profile survivor.