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The 50th and final Showbus took place near Redbourn in Hertfordshire on 25/09/2022 and was attended by around 245 buses and coaches from up and down the UK.
My photos show some of the vehicles that helped make the day another big success.
D51 LWW (ex CLZ 208, NJI 5510, D51 LWW)
Volvo B10M/Van Hool Alizee C50FT
Sharpes Coaches, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire
Showbus, Woburn Abbey, 20 September 2015
New to Eddie Brown, Helperby
This turned many heads and was one of my favourites. It was making its debut after an extremely thorough three-year restoration to better-than-new condition and really is utterly stunning.
Lamprotornis acuticaudus
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Jinja, Uganda, Africa
Thanks to our amazing Guides: John Muwaita (jonamez212@gmail.com) & Medi (1,000 Shades of Green)
Iona Inner Ponds. Lifer. There are always things to be happy about as well as dumb things that we want to kick ourself for. At first, the bird was really far away and using a teleconverter is a reasonable thing. However, I forgot to remove the TC when the bird approach us and become very close. Hence the soft image. :(
A few hardy mountaineers brave the conditions and tackle Sharp Edge. Head for heights required. I took the easier route which was still testing in the conditions
Sharpes of Nottingham: (HJZ 113; ex P812 GBA) a Van Hool Alizee bodied Volvo B10M, painted in silver and blue fleet livery. This vehicle is captured here pulling onto the Imperial War Museum's Duxford Airfield site whilst attending the 2008 Showbus event.
Noticeable on the nearside is the mid arrangement for the wheel chair lift with the access door situated just above and in front of the rear axle, for use as an Accessible vehicle.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 28th September 2008.
Ref No. 0018446/CL.
Sharps of Batley DAF MB230 Duple 340 JIL 5660 was seen in Blackpool on 5th October, 1996. It was new to Wallace Arnold as C126 DWR one of just three DAFs supplied to that operator.
Recently I've had some rotten luck narrowly missing several good deckers from the coach operators (including Tiger European ex-NCT Y667 DRA), but some good fortune here meant I was in the right place at the right time to get a better photo of Sharpes Volvo B7TL ALX400 MIB 658, which is depicted here on Mansfield Road, but about to turn up Woodborough Road on 21.3.22
My husband called out from the kitchen and I came on the run, camera in hand, with no time to think. I managed 5 frames, including this, the clearest of the lot, through the window before this sharp shinned hawk continued his hunt elsewhere. This image is very tightly cropped.
I was out picking up some branches in the yard and this hawk flew in and landed on the fence in the back of our yard. I grabbed my camera and started to get some shots. He flew into the tree and I notice he had his eye on a sparrow. In a quick flutter of his wings he flew about five feet and grabbed the sparrow in an instant! Looks to be a Sharp-Shinned Hawk from what I can tell.
Sharp Edge - Blencathra.
Taken from the bottom of Foule Crag looking over to the Gendarme and the 'Mauvais Pass' - The 'Bad Step'
Here we have the second transistor radio released by Sharp (Hayakawa Electric Co., Ltd.) in mid 1957.
This model sported the nickname "Peppy" in a Sharp ad from the summer of 1957. Methinks Sharp was taking the term "pet name" a bit too literally . ;-)
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A complete entry on this model will eventually appear on my site, including chassis pics, a bit of history, and more stories of spicy pet names.
Sharpes Of Nottingham Daf Van Hool TX17 Astron Reg SH15 RPE is seen parked in Belfast Titanic Quarter
Moved this up front since it's supposed to be 100 (again) in Roanoke today...with a lovely air pollution toxin warning thrown in just to make things even more enjoyable!
I do like winter when it snows...but I only like snow when it is pristine and still clinging to everything like in this scene. That usually doesn't last long, for after the storm the wind usually picks up and blows it into an ugly mess. Here I'm hiking up Sharp Top after the season's third heavy snow. Over a foot of new snow on top of an older deep snow. It's well past my knees here, and even deeper in some places. This hike is over a mile with a 1500 ft elevation change, it's considered "strenuous" under the best circumstances, and as steep a hike as I know anywhere. I wasn't wearing snow shoes and don't even have any, who would ever need them in VA? I opted to skip the trail or road and just walk straight up the mountain to avoid any additional effort of distance. It was the most strenuous hiking I've ever done, much worse than carrying a heavy pack. I can normally hike to the top in a 1/2 hour or so, this time was almost 2 hours it seemed. Halfway up I considered turning back, but forced myself to keep going. One of those times I call a "heart-check" experience, gonna find out if it's still working well!
Second in the line of Sharpes vehicles was Gemini 2 60 YWX, carrying a registration that was formerly on a Dublin Olympian. IIRC this is an ex-Bournemouth bus, which although still a G2 has come from a city besides Edinburgh for once.
Maid Marian Way, Nottingham
3.12.25
When I encountered the Bottesford school buses 'by accident' in June, the only one I saw but didn't manage to photograph (aside from the phantom Centrebus) was a Sharpes ex-Dublin B7TL which made the turn up Belvoir Road. Of course, I couldn't have been happier when I saw this approaching and was able to get a photo of the thing I missed last time, in some pretty nice weather conditions, too!
I don't know if it's the exact same bus from June or not (most likely not), but it doesn't matter as this is one of the Sharpes ALX400s which I haven't seen before and so is a tick in the book no matter what. The plate UXI 476 I have seen before, in fact, when it was attached to an Alexander PS that Sharpes were using on a University of Nottingham shuttle in 2015.
Belvoir Road, Bottesford, 16.9.22
Liverpool is an extremely vibrant city but this is maybe not the best advert for it. The image is full colour, taken yesterday on a very dull overcast day. This is No1 Mann Island on the historic waterfront next to the beautiful Port of Liverpool building. It's so beautiful, I'm not showing it to you here.
And this is Linkin Park, not in the shouty, screamy style but worth a listen nontheless.
Searcher XL - Japanese import. In immaculate condition. This 1980 Sharp model has some super cool features so i thought deserved a good photograph once i got it back from the service engineer.
Eurostar Cl.374 units at St Pancras Station, London. Services operate to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam through the Channel Tunnel.
Believe it or not, I used to shave with this. When I first started growing whiskers, 30 or so years ago, I got it in my head that I needed a straight razor to get into the tight places, under my nose, etc. So I bought this, along with a shaving brush and mug, and went to work butchering my face. Actually, I got pretty good with it, but it didn't take long for the novelty to wear off, and I reverted to more modern methods. Yet, every now and then, I'll run a few passes over the razor strop and give it another try, just for old times sake and generally manage to keep my face pretty much in tact.
The topic for today's Our Daily Challenge is "Sharp," which is what gave me the incentive for this photo.
One of the Sharpes Volvo Olympians showed up on Derby Road on 17.7.18
Here's another ex-Dublin Olympian just under 10 years previous:
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