Wigan Album

I might be wrong Ron but is that Gloucester Cathedral in the background?

Colin it could well be Gloucester. I just checked the towers at Exeter cathedral and the four pinnacles appear to be similar However the ones on Gloucester Cathedral are a bit higher. Also Exeter Cathedral is in a bit of a hollow with no main roads in close proximity as is shown on the photo.

I love that "Teas With Hovis" sign. There is one outside a sweet shop/cafe in the village of Gargrave, between Hellifield and Skipton, which we used to pass regularly when we had our caravan. I took a photo of it before we had to give the caravan up. I love old signs like that.

Irene if you zoom in on that Mogg's cafe sign you will see that they are doing Luncheons.
Cafe more than likely owned by one of Jacob Rees Moggs relations.

How many stops from Wigan.?no m5 those days

Back in the late 50's early 60's We( mum, dad, me, and some family friends) Regularly went to Bournemouth for our 2 weeks summer holidays. We would get a taxi to BANK QUAY Station in Warrington on a Friday evening. Where we were picked up at around 7.30pm by a YELLOWAYS coach. I can remember we stopped at a coach stop in CHELTENHAM sometime during the night and arrived in Bournemouth at around 7.00am Saturday morning. So that would make it about 13 hours from leaving home.

We went to London several times on a Standerwick Gay Hostess double decker bus, and then caught another coach down to Brighton.

When you think you can travel half way around the world now in 13 hours.. But traveling overnight on a coach was a big adventure for a young lad. I can't remember if we traveled back home overnight though??

I would say if this coach was heading for the south west coast it would have probably driven through Gloucester city centre as the M5 was a long way off being built! Does anyone know if these types of holiday excursions from the 1950s or 60s involved an overnight stop in somewhere like Gloucester?

CJ

CJAlan The journey to Bournemouth was an overnight coach journey. No stop over. See my post.

Must have been 1969 when I went from Warrington to Newquay by overnight coach, dreadful journey, took a week recover, then it was time to come back.