Hi Russell,

Sorry for the delay - thanks for that information about Rutland
Road. Its a shame that there are no official photo's about - I have
searched loads of places and it seems to have been left out - I know
bus depot's are not the most photogenic of places but they do serve
a place in transport history.
If you do manage to find anything , do please let me know and in the
meantime I wil l keep scouring the books and internet archives.

Thanks a lot

Andy

--- In bournemouthbusstation@..., russell crowe
<dorsetpussy@y...> wrote:
> hi again andy the hedges were still there in the late 70s and
early 1980s but were removed when the site was redevloped . in its
latter years it was a repair garage and storage depot and there
was a open air plot wich was used to store foreign coaches to
royal blue ie blk and white and other coach companies on a nightly
basis there were about a dozen mechanics, cleaners a supervisor
general manager and a big boss in overall charge i even remember
after the great fire at bmth coach station a couple of the burnt
coaches were stored at rutland rd depot with fire extingiushers on
hand to use if they were to reignite i dont have any photos but
only memories of great times they even had a wash room area with
state of the art coach washing facility will try to locate some
photos of depot im sure my family must have some some where it
was a great place some one should have put a plaque up to remember
it regards martin
> ANDY CRIDDLE <andy@c...> wrote:Hi martin,
>
> I am searching all this for my dad who was born in Bournemouth in
the 1930's and he remembers seeing the buses and coaches coming in -
especially the Royal Blues.
> He used to live at Bishop Road and his father had a hairdressers
in Crimea Road Winton.
>
> The facility at Rutland Road was an overnight service area wasn't
it? He remembers that it was all surrounded by very high hedges -
well it was in his time.
>
> I don't suppose you have any photos at all?
>
> I have managed to get a few photos of Royal Blues and some of the
main bus station and posted them to the group today.
>
> Anything else you can add would be gratefully received.
>
> best wishes
>
> Andy
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