Leonard Bentley
Fleet Street
This is a found slide in a Gepe mount showing a Dennis bus in Fleet Street during the Lord Mayor’s Show. This is Saturday 10th November 1984 and the bus is being used to transport the Bob Kerr Whoopee Band in the procession, they are just about to pass Ye Olde Cock Tavern. The bus has an interesting history, dating from 1925, it was a bus used by the Dominion Omnibus Company, one of the pirate bus companies which operated in the 1920s and early 1930s. The link is to a very detailed history of the bus, it now resides at the Cobham Bus Museum. www.londonbusmuseum.com/museum-exhibits/double-deck-buses.... The bus is advertising the following year’s City of London Festival which was held between 7th and 20th July 1985, the festival had been held annually since 1980 and was mostly a classical music festival. The City of London Corporation ended the festival after it failed to obtain further sponsorship in 2016. The following link is to a you tube video showing the Bob Kerr Whoopee Band in 1990, they are still playing today which may be a good or bad thing depending on your taste in music.
Fleet Street
This is a found slide in a Gepe mount showing a Dennis bus in Fleet Street during the Lord Mayor’s Show. This is Saturday 10th November 1984 and the bus is being used to transport the Bob Kerr Whoopee Band in the procession, they are just about to pass Ye Olde Cock Tavern. The bus has an interesting history, dating from 1925, it was a bus used by the Dominion Omnibus Company, one of the pirate bus companies which operated in the 1920s and early 1930s. The link is to a very detailed history of the bus, it now resides at the Cobham Bus Museum. www.londonbusmuseum.com/museum-exhibits/double-deck-buses.... The bus is advertising the following year’s City of London Festival which was held between 7th and 20th July 1985, the festival had been held annually since 1980 and was mostly a classical music festival. The City of London Corporation ended the festival after it failed to obtain further sponsorship in 2016. The following link is to a you tube video showing the Bob Kerr Whoopee Band in 1990, they are still playing today which may be a good or bad thing depending on your taste in music.