One thats well put together and narrated Pete , it will jog the memory and touch the hearts of a lot of people .

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

As a young boy I used to go to Muswell Hill roundabout to watch the buses - in those days RTs and RFs. On a couple of occasions I was taken into the mobile canteen (708B) and bought a drink. I remember the busmen being bemused about why a six-year old should be interested in buses. These were before enthusiasts and parents would let a child out on their own to play without fear of molestation.

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, not even happy about my 18 year old going out!

Nice video! I lived in a house on Sydney Road near the bus garage in the late sixties. A couple of lovely lady bus conductors also lived in the house.

@BristolRE

Жыл бұрын

A lovely area (and Muswell Hill still is)

Fantastic history on Muswell Hill Garage. Thankyou Peter.

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you're welcome

Thx for posting great little garage Was on the 43 route Happy day's

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

They were good days working from MH

Thank you for that. Great to see - but sad. I had the same experience when Stagecoach bought our company - then proceeded to asset strip. Was never the same after that.

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly the best days in the industry are long gone

@jmhale5874

2 жыл бұрын

@@BristolRE So true.

A lot of the faults LT had, it was running a bespoke and well oiled machine in a debilitating time, 70s and 80s, somehow it just couldn’t retain the level it needed but yet was so attractive to private firms, but made to look shabby for drivers, passengers. Makes me wonder what the bus is for, anyhow. Great video, good to see smiling faces, unlike today!

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Nice Video Peter, my uncle worked at Muswell Hill Garage all his life in the workshop in his days there the busses were all R/Ts he retired in the late 60s, my uncle lived in Ponders End and would bus all the way to and from work. Really enjoy your videos Peter they bring back a lot of memories from when I lived in Ponders End

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You, glad you like them

I can remember the bus depot canteen next to Hollywood school where onexof the drivers sold matchbox cars

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

😯

My uncle worked at that garage a round that time and I lived in the flats opposite in 1994

Nice video Peter.

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Yes, Peter it was a good garage to work at.

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was

Great video Peter 👍

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Do you remember Raymond Dimond my grandfather he drove out of muswell Hill for a little while? Thank you for your video, I grew up around the vicinity of the old garage and went to hollickwood primary school next door.

@BristolRE

2 ай бұрын

Thanks. The name does not ring a bell, so possibly before my time there

Sad to see this garage go. I never saw it, but I do remember passing the stand on Hampden Road. Is it just North London that had idiosyncratic bus garages tucked down residential streets (Muswell Hill, Chalk Farm, Finchley, Edmonton - at least Holloway is still there)?

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure, maybe there were some in South London too?

Great to see a garage I never knew of as of course it was ages before I was born. You get sent to Potters Bar right?

@BristolRE

2 жыл бұрын

I did, yes. Some went to Finchley or Holloway, depending on which garage you chose.

When I search the postcode, it takes me to a school, I think the garage itself got turned into a school

@BristolRE

Жыл бұрын

There is a small school next to the site, flats and houses are on the actual site

@CatNapFromPoppyPlaytime96

Жыл бұрын

Ok

@CatNapFromPoppyPlaytime96

Жыл бұрын

@@BristolRE You know the school has the same Post Code as the Bus Garage