23-030 Brighton and Hove Coaster Branded Mercedes Benz Wright Streetdeck No. 930 'Tirzah Garwood' (BX15 ONG)
Taken 23/01/23 in Brighton's Queen's Road; According to Wikipedia the "... Wright StreetDeck is an integral double-deck bus manufactured by Wrightbus, with a Daimler OM934 diesel engine ....the first production examples entered service with Brighton & Hove in 2015." These were the BX15 batch which are all allocated to Newhaven and branded into Coaster livery for use on the 12 cluster of routes between Brighton and Eastbourne.
Again as per Wikipedia ".... Brighton & Hove was established in 1884 as Brighton, Hove and Preston United Omnibus Company. In 1916, Thomas Tilling took over the company and replaced all its remaining horse buses with motor buses. In November 1935 it was formed as the Brighton Hove and District Omnibus Company. In January 1969 it merged with Southdown Motor Services as a subsidiary of the National Bus Company. In January 1985 in preparation for privatisation, Brighton & Hove was separated from Southdown. In May 1987 it was sold in a management buyout. In November 1993 Brighton & Hove was sold to the Go-Ahead Group."
Brighton and Hove allocate names to virtually all their fleet and clicking on to the bus name on the following website gives biographies of those so honoured:
history.buses.co.uk/history/fleethist/current.htm
Connections with Brighton and Hove : Tirzah Garwood was a notable artist and the wife of war artist Eric Ravilious from 1930 until his death in 1942. Born in 1908 to a military family, she was educated at West Hill School in Eastbourne. She swiftly showed promise as an artist and wood engraver. She later studied at the Central School of Art. She gained many commissions including one from the BBC to refashion its coat of arms. Garwood married Eric Ravilious in Kensington in July 1930 and he was already well known by then. They both loved the Sussex countryside which inspired much of their work. They had three children. Garwood suffered from breast cancer and during her recovery wrote an autobiography. Ravilious became a war artist and his plane went missing off Iceland in 1942. His body was never recovered. Garwood spent her later years in Essex, marrying again and resuming her career as an artist. But the cancer returned and she died in 1951. A memorial exhibition was held at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne in 1952. Two of her paintings are in the Towner Gallery, which also has the largest collection of her husband’s work.
23-030 Brighton and Hove Coaster Branded Mercedes Benz Wright Streetdeck No. 930 'Tirzah Garwood' (BX15 ONG)
Taken 23/01/23 in Brighton's Queen's Road; According to Wikipedia the "... Wright StreetDeck is an integral double-deck bus manufactured by Wrightbus, with a Daimler OM934 diesel engine ....the first production examples entered service with Brighton & Hove in 2015." These were the BX15 batch which are all allocated to Newhaven and branded into Coaster livery for use on the 12 cluster of routes between Brighton and Eastbourne.
Again as per Wikipedia ".... Brighton & Hove was established in 1884 as Brighton, Hove and Preston United Omnibus Company. In 1916, Thomas Tilling took over the company and replaced all its remaining horse buses with motor buses. In November 1935 it was formed as the Brighton Hove and District Omnibus Company. In January 1969 it merged with Southdown Motor Services as a subsidiary of the National Bus Company. In January 1985 in preparation for privatisation, Brighton & Hove was separated from Southdown. In May 1987 it was sold in a management buyout. In November 1993 Brighton & Hove was sold to the Go-Ahead Group."
Brighton and Hove allocate names to virtually all their fleet and clicking on to the bus name on the following website gives biographies of those so honoured:
history.buses.co.uk/history/fleethist/current.htm
Connections with Brighton and Hove : Tirzah Garwood was a notable artist and the wife of war artist Eric Ravilious from 1930 until his death in 1942. Born in 1908 to a military family, she was educated at West Hill School in Eastbourne. She swiftly showed promise as an artist and wood engraver. She later studied at the Central School of Art. She gained many commissions including one from the BBC to refashion its coat of arms. Garwood married Eric Ravilious in Kensington in July 1930 and he was already well known by then. They both loved the Sussex countryside which inspired much of their work. They had three children. Garwood suffered from breast cancer and during her recovery wrote an autobiography. Ravilious became a war artist and his plane went missing off Iceland in 1942. His body was never recovered. Garwood spent her later years in Essex, marrying again and resuming her career as an artist. But the cancer returned and she died in 1951. A memorial exhibition was held at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne in 1952. Two of her paintings are in the Towner Gallery, which also has the largest collection of her husband’s work.