Biddulph Bus Identified.......

 

E8961 is a Leyland (obviously from the photograph) but bodywork unknown. It was new in March 1924 to Arthur Turner of 27 Tunstall Road, Biddulph and had left him by Jan 1929. I have details of 4 buses operated by him but this is the first photograph I have seen of one of them.

Would be interested to know the names of the "crew", perhaps one for Jeremy Condliffe and his "Glancing back in pictures" column.  Can't quite make out the name of the establishment to the rear of the bus but it is alongside an Hotel.

Congleton terminus in the 1920's was Congleton (Fountain) for most Biddulph services i.e. Swan Bank and Bridge Street

(Bears Head Hotel)

Pictures of New Buildings, Brindley Ford, Staffordshire

I have been doing some more research on the Turner and Farmer side of the family, in relation to the connection with Mabel Turner and Thomas Richard Hill.  Looks like we may have some relatives in America, so here are some photographs of the old place where they were brought up:

Number One looking down the 'fronts'

Number 13 first door in shot, looking up towards number 1

Looking towards Victoria Colliery - Long Gone

The 'backs' of New Buildings

Must be bin day....?

Looking towards number one from the back of number 15