

Baz Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 5:35pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 I have this photo of what I think is a closed back Midland Red bus. I remember they had a few double deckers around Coventry, but were they closed back and ran in the centre of the city. Could this be one?
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 2 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 5:40pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4235 Hi Baz, Hi all ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 3 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 5:45pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Thanks Baz for the image - looks like a very busy Corporation Street, with a Midland Red C5 coach in front of the bus |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 4 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 5:55pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 Thanks all for the quick response. Do any know where the 590 bus route went to. This is Corporation St heading towards what is now the Co-op I think. ![]() Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 5 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 5:58pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Up north (!) Crosville ran them as "DUPLICATE" rather than "SERVICE EXTRA" ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 6 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 6:00pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 On 17th Jun 2012 5:55pm, Baz said:
Thanks all for the quick response. Do any know where the 590 bus route went to. This is Corporation St heading towards what is now the Co-op I think.
Originally to Warwick via Kenilworth, then it was extended to Stratford-on-Avon![]() |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 7 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 6:20pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 On 17th Jun 2012 5:40pm, PhilipInCoventry said:
Also the Midland Red motorway or touring coach in front.
Here is a wider view of it all. I've taken a photo of a photo.
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 8 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 6:39pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2975 On 17th Jun 2012 6:00pm, Midland Red said:
I used the service occasionally between 1965 and 1970. They were all front entrance by then except I think for the odd "Stratford Blue" on relief duties.
On 17th Jun 2012 5:55pm, Baz said:
Do any know where the 590 bus route went to.
Originally to Warwick via Kenilworth, then it was extended to Stratford-on-Avon |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 9 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 6:41pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2975 On 17th Jun 2012 5:55pm, Baz said:
This is Corporation St heading towards what is now the Co-op I think.
The Co-op is on the right. ![]() ![]() |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 10 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 6:46pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 My big mistake. The plaque on the corner of the Co-op is just in front of the coach. I stand corrected. ![]() ![]() Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 11 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 7:08pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 My one time memory of the Stratford bus was a single decker with the emergency exit in the middle at the back. It went around Kenilworth, Warwick, then out to Barford, Wasperton, and Wellesbourne before getting to Stratford. I remember seeing buses like the ones out of "On the Buses" with the front door behind the engine at Stratford. ![]() Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 12 of 17 Sun 17th Jun 2012 11:59pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1932 I use to catch the Midland Red on Wheelwright Lane to Bedworth, just down from the railway lines, opposite the Hub pub in the seventies from Cov to Bedworth via Ash Green, that used to run a double decker also single decker. |
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MisterD-Di Sutton Coldfield All posts by this member | 13 of 17 Mon 18th Jun 2012 2:55am Member: Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:870 I love the way people parked their cars down the middle of the road between those small central reservations. This happened in Trinity Street too. Imagine what the reaction would be if this were to happen now! ![]() |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 14 of 17 Thu 24th Jan 2013 9:36am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 This photograph is described as Pool Meadow, 1940, a lovely sign and hut in the background, |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 15 of 17 Thu 24th Jan 2013 2:38pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 The 1954 photo is a winner Dutchman! I have found one of some girls off on holiday from Pool Meadow, 1962. The weather looked fair, no sign of snow for December 1962.
Had to put this one on of the Cafe, 1962 |
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