Wigan Album
Wigan Corporation Transport
17 CommentsPhoto: RON HUNT
Item #: 29652
The only words that I can make out is, something Borough, on the bus shelter, and the word Equitable, and possibly printer, on the facing building. Could it be Leigh?.
Definitely Rochdale town centre, before they ripped the place apart, and ruined it.
Albert - the building with 'Equitable' on it is the Rochdale Co-op (Equitable Pioneers) building.
The cinema which can be seen on the right of the photo (the old Regal cinema) is now a Wetherspoon's pub called the Regal Moon.
To the left of the photo, out of shot, is Rochdale town hall.
You can tell its the early sixties with suits the lads are wearing....don't they look smart.
That's the Society of Equitable Pioneers Albert, the local Co-op which was founded in Rochdale.
Rochdale's Regal Cinema is shown on the extreme right; it closed in 1992.
Probably transporting Mill Workers. I know at that time a lot of people traveled from Wigan to Rochdale to work in the mills.
The bus shelter caption is Littleborough which is near Rochdale
To the left of the photo, also out of shot is the River Roch which has recently been exposed. It was previously culverted and is now something of a showpiece.
The cream coloured AEC Double Deck bus at the rear of the
picture is one of many AEC buses of Rochdale Corporation.
THE BUS IS JP 6032 THE PRESERVED No 34 IN ROCHDALE THERE IS A ROCHDALE REGENT V BEHIND PROBABLY ON HEATON PARK RALLY RUN
THE BUS IS ON THE TRANS PENNINE RUN I WAS DRIVING
Yes Veronica they do look smart.. better than jeans with holes in them,and shorts with the crotch down to their knees..all dress pride seems to have gone.
And they watched their language in front of women Maureen!
This bus is a Leyland bodied low height lowbridge, ie side upper gangway, Leyland Titan PD1, being one of 75 purchased in 1946/47, JP5550-5537, and JP6000-6036, being the last one to be withdrawn in 1967 and survives in preservation today.