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Scones in suburbia
Edinburgh's traffic-congested streets seem forgotten as our Leyland Titan bus has made its way out to the lush green suburbs, few more so than at Silverknowes in the north west of the city. Builders McTaggart and Mickel, who'd built much of Glasgow's Victorian tenements bought land in the Silverknowes and Hillpark areas and completed building many houses here in 1955. For some years residents had to walk to Muirhouse for their bus, so it was hardly surprising that when service 27 was extended to Silverknowes a few elderly residents showed appreciation by having jam scones ready for crews waiting at the then terminus! Memories do fade over the years but I think this crew were changing the nearside screens here near the rear of the bus or admiring the privet hedge !
Like all good things some staff spent too long on the scones and soon Head Office sent a portly inspector known as 'The Beast' to investigate 'irregular running' of services in the area. ('irregular' being the management term for late or early buses!). The following day an interdict was given that the terminus move to the opposite side of the wide Parkway rendering the scones way off limits. Later a lady resident told me 'a kind inspector' would often come down and eat the scones, and the Beast himself told me he 'killed two birds with the one scone' (!) that day - so ensuring the buses ran on time and that the scones were still appreciated - by him !
For those operationally minded fleet 530 was a Marine bus on loan to Tollcross, and buses terminating here on Silverknowes Parkway in those years were the 8 (Central) 16 (Leith) 27 (Tollcross). and around the corner at Silverknowes Court the 24 and 29 (Tollcross) .
Scones in suburbia
Edinburgh's traffic-congested streets seem forgotten as our Leyland Titan bus has made its way out to the lush green suburbs, few more so than at Silverknowes in the north west of the city. Builders McTaggart and Mickel, who'd built much of Glasgow's Victorian tenements bought land in the Silverknowes and Hillpark areas and completed building many houses here in 1955. For some years residents had to walk to Muirhouse for their bus, so it was hardly surprising that when service 27 was extended to Silverknowes a few elderly residents showed appreciation by having jam scones ready for crews waiting at the then terminus! Memories do fade over the years but I think this crew were changing the nearside screens here near the rear of the bus or admiring the privet hedge !
Like all good things some staff spent too long on the scones and soon Head Office sent a portly inspector known as 'The Beast' to investigate 'irregular running' of services in the area. ('irregular' being the management term for late or early buses!). The following day an interdict was given that the terminus move to the opposite side of the wide Parkway rendering the scones way off limits. Later a lady resident told me 'a kind inspector' would often come down and eat the scones, and the Beast himself told me he 'killed two birds with the one scone' (!) that day - so ensuring the buses ran on time and that the scones were still appreciated - by him !
For those operationally minded fleet 530 was a Marine bus on loan to Tollcross, and buses terminating here on Silverknowes Parkway in those years were the 8 (Central) 16 (Leith) 27 (Tollcross). and around the corner at Silverknowes Court the 24 and 29 (Tollcross) .