Wigan Album

There's been some great photos posted on the Album lately of coaches and decorated with chrome trims and wheel rims etc., these gave the coaches an art deco or Mackintosh type of décor which somehow always gave the coaches and their passengers a happy feeling, so is it any wonder that there was always singing to be heard if you were on a coach or any passing by you. If only going to Blackpool someone would begin singing with other passengers joining in, even if they only knew the choruses.
I can only remember the most common songs - One man went to mow a meadow, and Ten Green Bottles, Run Rabbit and Old MacDonald and these from Sheffield Forum are remembering a few more, which I do now remember.
https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/468200-songs-sung-on-couch-trip-outings-in-the-50s/

I love to go a wandering etc.

And when you got nearer and closer Cyril the sense of excitement for children who had never even seen the sea , let alone smelt it , is something I have always kept inside me . All on a beautiful carriage like this . We only went once or twice if you were lucky in my day so a bus journey to Blackpool , you just remember and treasure it . Now it’s different

This coach is showing LEWIS RHYDLEWIS on its indicator panel, so I am
assuming that Liptrots sold it after several years of service. This company,
Lewis Rhydlewis, is still in operation today in Cardiganshire, South Wales.

Mark, thanks for that information as I was thinking that to be a destination.
You're right, you could begin to smell the aroma in the air the closer you got to the sea.

Yes The Happy Wanderer, Faleri falera, faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha, faleri falera. On the Fast Show they did some sketches about the song - here - https://youtu.be/WzQ-qQ_T6oA

This coach is a Crossley built in Stockport and was registered in March 1949. It originally had a Bellhoue-Hartwell body, however, it was re-bodied with this Duple body in 1955. It was sold in later life to Lewis and is now preserved.

Would that be a irish registration number.

Not in 1955.