Comments on: On The Buses With Colin O’Brien https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:38:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-545724 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:38:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-545724 Re. Green Routemasters…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routemaster#Green_livery

]]> By: steve clarke https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-480186 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:20:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-480186 Mr Gentle

Any idea why some of the Routemasters were Green ?

I notice the No 22 for instance, which still runs in East London through the City was Red in some pictures and Green in others.

Cheers

]]> By: Brenda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-476690 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:28:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-476690 I love the old buses. They always look like they’re winking at you when you view them head on!

]]> By: Classof65 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-476288 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:10:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-476288 Why were some of the buses red and others green?

]]> By: Ian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-473748 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 14:48:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-473748 Some might think I’m barmy but I find (and for as long as I can remember, found) old buses beautiful and majestic. As a child I used to get the Bus Annual for Christmas, and would spend happy hours leafing through over and over again, scouring the photographs for details I may have missed the first time. These photos serve as a reminder that they are vehicular works of art, and also highlight how homogenised and generic most modern vehicles have become. Thanks for sharing them.

]]> By: David Cantor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-473408 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:27:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-473408 I took a ride on an old bus recently with the bench seats facing. From St. Paul’s to Charing Cross, a passenger who lives in Australia and now long retired, claimed to have been the youngest driver on a London bus. His conversation with the lady conductor, yes one of those too, was magical as they compared then and now. The new buses are probably more cost effective, less polluting but so much less fun too. Good memories.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-473182 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:07:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-473182 What a pity that I couldn’t be in London to see all my Childhood-MATCHBOX-Dreams come true … — A very good photo story about those asymmetrically designed lovable veteran buses. Thanks a lot!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-473143 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 08:40:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-473143 Great memories especially as the number 22 features so prominently. That was the bus we used to catch from near our home in Putney. I also caught it when I went to school in Hammersmith. We had a competition with the driver to see if we could jump off the back as it went round the corner into the terminus. Some drivers definitely took the corner as fast as they could and not all of us could make the jump. Health and Safety? Our mothers would have had a fit if they had known. And the conductor wasn’t bothered! It seemed to be one of our rites of passage along with falling out of trees on the adjacent common.

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-472940 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:38:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-472940 Two of the green-painted RT’s run a regular service on Saturdays & Sundays, between Epping & N Weald (For the Epping-Ongar Railway) They often go on to Ongar as well.
One is in the old “London Country” livery & one is ex “Green Line”
Well worth the trip.

]]> By: Sarah McAlister https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/08/30/on-the-buses-with-colin-obrien-2/#comment-472904 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:11:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119503#comment-472904 What wonderful pictures and description and memories ~ the RT1 was born five days after me (4th August 1939)! Thank you gentle author and Colin O’Brien. SMcA XX

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