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Issue 92 March 2014
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My parents recalled the service being introduced when they settled in Lisleholme Crescent after marrying in 1939. I passed my 11-Plus exam and secured a
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In 1959 I would get on at a patch of waste ground called Bencke’s after the man who lived in a house that once stood on the site.
The bus trundled
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place at Evered High School in Walton, using the 61 to get there before leaving in 1966.
Passengers boarded the bus through the rear open platform entrance and the conductor came to collect fares. As I went to school more than four miles from home, I had a free pass.
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The 61 bus links West Derby to north and south Liverpool and holds fond memories for many.
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ALL ABOARD THE 61 It has served West Derby since before the Second World War carrying countless passengers over the years.
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BUY OR SELL past the Co-op where a school dinners hut once stood. A 1950
photograph (pictured) shows a 61 passing the hut heading south. A t We s t D e r b y Village we looked at the hand-painted posters outside the Plaza advertising the films. Among those I saw there was The Lady is a Square starring Frankie Vaughan. In Almonds Green there were garden nurseries on the right with greenhouses. At Broadway the bus passed the Regal cinema and we again craned our necks to see what was on.
The 61 continued n o r t h a l o n g Strawberry Road. One morning we saw a vintage Bentley smashed up in an accident at the junction with Parthenon Drive. After passing the Crown Inn, the bus – carrying teachers as well as pupils - entered the Aintree Industrial Estate with Nelson’s jam factory served by ancient steam wagons. We got off at Jacob’s factory and followed the footpath leading in Evered Avenue. When I revisit the area
the smell of baking biscuits always reminds me of school. Sometimes father and I would take the bus to Seaforth to see the big ships at the docks. Coming home the bus top deck was filled with workers smoking like chimneys, filling the air with dense pungent fumes. In those days there were unpleasant smogs caused by coal fires and industrial pollution. Travelling on the bus was an eerie ex-
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