AEC Regent III RT Double Decker Bus Think of the film ‘Summer Holiday’ starring Cliff Richard and you hear that song and you think of holidaying in sunny foreign climbs in a Route master bus…wrong! In actual fact the bus used in the film ‘Summer Holiday’ was an AEC Regent III RT double-decker bus. But…
T15 Weekend Heritage Service There are believed to be some 1280 old Routemaster buses still in existence. Some of them still are still in use in London on the T15 Weekend Heritage Service and many of them around the United Kingdom are used for weddings, parties and functions. There are however a number of them…
Photo by AL Seveni on Unsplash Boris Johnson It was in 2010, some 2 years after winning the London mayoral election, Boris Johnson unveiled the new design for the Routemaster bus. The commission for the design was awarded to Thomas Heatherwick and the bus was to be manufactured in Antrim, Northern Ireland by Wrightbus. The…
Photo by Lucas Davies on Unsplash Buckingham Palace If you are visiting London from outside of the United Kingdom, you will probably fly into one of the 3 major London airports which are Heathrow Airport, Gatwick Airport and Stansted Airport. The biggest of the airports is Heathrow which is one of the busiest airports in…
Photo by Nico Marais on Unsplash The Wedding Day The big day is fast approaching, your wedding has to be perfect, every last detail needs to be attended to. You need to book the location, whether that is the traditional church or perhaps as in recent years somewhere a little different including getting married at…
Photo by chan lee on Unsplash Omnibus The actual word ‘Bus’ is an a shortening of the Latin word ‘Omnibus’ which means ‘For All’. The first recorded incidence of an omnibus service was a horse drawn public omnibus service introduced by Blaise Pascal in Paris, France. The service lasted 15 years before being withdrawn because…
Photo by Jude Mack on Unsplash On February 8th 1956, passengers boarded what was to become not only a national icon but an internationally recognisable symbol of Englishness along with the ‘Red Telephone Box’, the ‘Red Post Office Box’, the ‘Mini Cooper’, and ‘Big Ben’. That cold and snowy February morning back in 1956, the…
