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  • Collection: Todmorden Buses

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Working on a Todmorden bus chassis in 1930. The bus was first registered in 1923

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Yet another photo stop on the journey to Steanor Bottom, beyond Walsden. Outside the Railway Inn or Tavern at the junction with Alma Road, Walsden.

The hotel building is still there but has been converted to apartments, the building on the left has…

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Having arrived at the Sandbed terminus, Eastwood, the bus will depart for the Town Hall once the conductor has changed the destination board. The white bands painted on lamp posts were to inform passengers that these were a bus stop. Not all posts…

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Todmorden bus first registered in 1948

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Buses lined up beside the gas holder at Millwood. The buses are seen travelling uphill towards the main road from the early bus garage which was the former elecricity destructor building. The bus on the left was rebodied as a single deck following an…

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Note the left hand bus is being used as an office.

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The bus station was built in the 1970s.

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The bus station was built in the 1970s.

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C-1761 was Ryknield with Brush body which arrived in Todmorden in July, following a journey from Burton-on-Trent, this bus was allocated Fleet no 5. The photograph appears to be taken at the Roebuck Inn, Portsmouth.

The gentleman wearing the straw…

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Number 22 returning to Town Hall is registered as WT3608, a Leyland SG2 with a Central body. Maybe the model 'T' Ford car following was that of Doctor Harold Thorpe?

Number 22 was new in 1924 and was withdrawn in 1931.

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Hungry Wood Arch, Cornholme. There is not much room for the Demonstator double deck on loan from Leyland Motors.

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Pictured on Station Parade, Portsmouth

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Conservative Club to left. The centre one was Todmorden's second Post Office and later became the Telegraph Office. The building onthe right is Crown Buildings and became the fifth Post Office. The Unitarian Sunday School is in background
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