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Tom: To be honest Tom I would go for the pram, looks like it could be a silver cross very cosy. The bus looks like a bone shaker been on one a few times.

Perfect picture. A proper Lancashire product with a Leyland PD2 chassis and Northern Counties bodywork built just up the road from this picture. Swinley Labour Club in the background and this picture is taken before Central Park Way changed this view forever.

must have been an ex Wigan corporation bus with the DEK registration

Sorry Tom,the bus doesn't interest me..but that beautiful pram does..oh!!what memories.

Tom, I have loved your bus photos for many years, but as I have said before, to us who don't know much about buses, it is often the landmarks the bus is passing which hold our interest, eg the pram. The photo is brilliant but I have to say I loved the OLD buses, eg the LUTs, of which you have shown the most wonderful pics in the Platt Bridge photos, that show buses at their best; the beautiful rich colours. I was never a fan of the orange-and-white ones. However, it was the 1970s and they were of their time, and would have been much-forgotten but for people like yourself who have kept the reminders. Many thanks.

I am sure there is a logical explanation but why would the Abbey Lakes bus be on Wigan Lane?

At one time the no.5 and no.7 service ran between Standish Pepper Lane and Abbey Lakes through Wigan Market Place. It was 5 on it way to Standish and 7 on its way back to Abbey Lakes.

Broady the bus route was Standish to Abbey lakes via Wigan and vice versa

Obviously the route destination has been changed but not the route no.

Thank you.

The old Abbey Lakes - Standish bus service used to be very useful,when I was young in the 1960's I often had to go to appointments at Wigan Infirmary and we also had an elderly relation in Standish who we used to visit. We used to get the bus at Abbey Lakes and vice versa without having to change in Wigan.

GMT ex Wigan Corporation, 3286 DEK5E passing close to the Northern Counties factory where the bus was built in 1967. All 81 front engined 1959-68 built Leyland Titans, EJP501-510, GJP8-19, HEK705-707, HJP1-11, JJP502-509, KEK739-744, AEK1-10B, DEK2-3D, DEK4-7E and FEK1-9F passed to GMT in 1974 as numbers 3201-3222 3230-3251, 3255-3266, 3270-3281, 3285-3288, 3290-3298. 47 bodied by Massey at Pemberton. 3201-3204, 3211-3213, 3220-3222, 3230-3236, 3244-3247, 3255-3260, 3270-3281, 3290-3298. 33 bodied by Northern Counties, 3205-3210, 3214-3219, 3237-3243, 3248-3251, 3261-3266, 3285-3288