Cleaning the Buses


 

This photo, taken by Yannick Dixon at the Tram Depot in September 2008, shows a man whose job it is to clean the buses.  You can also listen to an audio clip of Don, an ex-Transport worker, describing how the buses used to be cleaned; and an audio clip of Frank, describing a conversation he had with the man in the photo.

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Trains and buses

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Bloomfield residents remember details of travelling to Blackpool by bus and train in the 40s, including how local children used to wait at the station and offer to carry people’s luggage.

The Waterloo Hotel

Local resident Frank recalls a conversation with his mother-in-law Barbara, remembering the Waterloo Hotel in the 1970s.