Charabanc trips from Blyth

[emmadog]

The ladies are definitely from Blyth but don't know where they ended up. I'm not sure if its York (being a regular visitor to there) and I would have thought it may have been a long way for a day trip way back in those days but could very well be wrong. 

[Phodgetts]

Blyth to York is only 94 miles via the A19 and not that much further via the A1. I know the roads would not be modernised dual carriageways back then, but even so, a day trip to York would have taken about 3 hours each way plus whatever stop over time they had in the city.

Re Bedlington on the front of the bus, it is just the company name Bedlington & District and not a destination blind. Using B&D for a charter would be of no surprise given how close Blyth and Bedlington are. No doubt the hirers would have approached all the local companies to get a price for the trip.

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[Pete E]

Super photo of the ladies on a grand day out; it doesn't look like the Minster to me, but the walls look like York. Is there another church near the walls which would give this view, I've Google street viewed around the walls keeping them to the right and I'm struggling. Other options Durham, Carlisle, Berwick, I think the fortifications are wrong; this photo is going to bug me!

[Phodgetts]

It's bugging me too fremund! The bus is also a bit of an anomaly because it looks like an AEC Regal, but the full width bonnet is more in the style of a later AEC Regent. I have been unable to identify the type. That is bugging me too. Bedlington & District had a preference for AEC it would seem.

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[Phodgetts]

At last! After much searching for the last few days, I think I have come up with the make of bus featured in the picture. A Foden bus with a Plaxtons body on it. I know some of the trim detail is different in this modern image, but this is what the bus would have looked like though in a different livery too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/6012101667/

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[AlisdairGB]

My initial view of the location was York, and it looks as though it should be familiar, but I can't place it.

Now, in a mad moment I wondered if it might be Carlisle ?

[emmadog]

I've never been to Carlisle so it could be there.  As I said earlier I am a regular to York (another trip booked for June).  I do not recognise it as York minster but could be wrong.

I can't think of my grandmother ever saying that she had been to York but she always seemed to be going on trips so who knows.

Barbara

[The Putter]

I'm from Blyth [left over 40 years ago] and now live 8 miles from York. I have studied the photographs and am fairly sure they are not taken in or around York. 

[Phodgetts]

Thanks for looking The Putter. A day trip from Blyth to a walled town. The ones that I can think of off the top of my head are Berwick, Carlisle and York. I can't imagine in those days that they'd get much farther afield. Looks like it's going to bug me for a bit longer! 

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