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Moving east, I must have had a day off. I think this is opposite the station, but the blind is showing the opposite way. The buidling next to the 20s shops isn't there now. Or I could be wrong!
Ensigns very lovely RT 8 is seen pictured in Silk Street, London about to depart on a tour of London
And so the RTs came out to play one last time, or so we thought back then. 2541 heads for South Park Drive to pick up.
in the revised livery for Matchbox of a cream type colour over yellow, orange and red stripes. YWS621 is the other bus.
This is one of my older edits, but I think it holds up nicely. In it we have a custom designed AT-RT with a background created from scratch.
Back on the road after restoration, there was some discussion about the shade of green used on the Romford (London Road) Green Line RTs, of which this was one.
The end of RT operation. After returning from a cavalcade on route 62, official guests have alighted from RT 624 outside Barking garage. Within an hour the vehicle departed the garage for the last time to start life with a new owner. Indeed the end of an era! Saturday 7th April 1979. 5A-19.
The rarely seen RT 2114 LYF 169.
As it's parked against a steep bank could not get a better shot.
This bus has not been used for many years and has a damaged N/S rear. It carries a late Park Royal RT 8/2 body new to RT 4815. DMS 1485 is to the left and RT 4705 also unused for many years is to the right.
Taken at Chigwell Row in 1971. RT 4049 with driver. I wonder if there is anyone from Seven Kings Garage who can remember him? This bus stand is still there; but is not used by any buses now. It is part of a road into a housing estate. The buses used to go through the pub car park and just as you exited , on the right there was a watering can and water tap which was kept locked up. On a hot summers day the climb from Hainault to Chigwell Row could cook a RT: if fully loaded with passengers for Hainult Forest or the Guide camp near by. The steam from the radiator cap just blew into the drivers cab.
The ON The Buses program Reg Varney caricature was based on this bus driver.
From the information provided by the V&A Museum accompanying the object. Copyright the V&A Muesum
'Head of Narcissus' - 1975
Physical description: A larger than life-size male figure of Narcissus made up of 8 hand-blown and mirrored body parts.
Place of Origin: Frauenau, Germany (made)
Date: 1975 (made)
Artist/maker: Erwin Eisch, born 1927 (maker)
Materials and Techniques: Glass, hand-blown
Descriptive line: Glass Sculpture, Head of 'Narcissus', Erwin Eisch, Frauenau, Germany, 1975.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
New Glass Review Corning Museum of Glass, 2015, p.111.
Erwin Eisch was one of the first artists in Europe to use glass as a material purely for artistic expression. From 1971 he made three installations themed around Narcissus, a mythological figure who drowned in a pond after falling in love with his own reflection. This third version was made for the opening of the new glass museum in Frauenau, in 1975, where it was shown in a mirrored glass box, representing the pond.
Germany (Frauenau)
Mould-blown, silvered and glued
Gift of the artist
Museum no. C.223-2014
[1/5/2015]
Materials: Glass
Techniques: Hand-blown