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The big red brick building is the bus garage, on the left is the Shannon and Chesapeake Inn, and on the right is the destructor building which contained an incinerator. The gas works is just off picture to the right.

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

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This is the Todmorden Joint Omnibus Committee emblem with the British Railways logo.

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Selection of Todmorden Joint Omnibus Committee bus tickets.

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Todmorden Joint Omnibus Committee bus tickets around the 1950s.

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Mr B. Pickles in 1947. This Todmorden bus No. 9 was first registered in 1947.

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Todmorden bus driver and conductor in the 1920s.

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Centre is Alderman John Henry Whitaker, for many years Chairman of Todmorden Joint Omnibus Committee.

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Todmorden Mayor, Alderman Abraham Crossley outside the Town Hall on 1st January 1907 prior to the inaugural bus run to Steanor Bottom.

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Todmorden bus No. 3 first registered in 1920.

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Todmorden bus No. 3 first registered in 1920.

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It must of been cold travelling atop this bus judging by the amount of snow around.

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Halifax Road, at Richmond Street, looking east towards Spring Gardens. Key Syke Lane goes off to the right.

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Bus No 2 takes a photo call on a very muddy road leading to Portsmouth. The Trade plate letters depict 'B' for Lancashire and 'P' for the manufacturer, Pilkingtons.

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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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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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Possibly in the area of Walsden known as Bottoms, or near Lane Bottom.

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