please empty your brain below
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Now what the hell are you going to do for your 60th birthday !?
Geofftech | Homepage | 05.06.12 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Exactly what I was thinking, though as he still has thirteen years to go a lot could change in that time.
Barry | 05.06.12 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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Most routes in Croydon are really there to serve the north of the borough (north of West Croydon) and come a little bit south to serve the town centre or are there to serve the south of the borough and venture northwards as far as Croydon Bus Station at West Croydon to terminate.
Exceptionally route 60 serves both ends of the borough and its "clientele" come from all ends of the social spectrum. I really hate to admit that there is any snobbery in me but if more than one bus turns up I make sure I don't catch the 60 as I perceive it to be noisier inside, dirtier and generally less pleasant. Furthermore, as you experienced, it seems to be the route more likely to be delayed at the bus garage whilst they change drivers.
BTW your very first link, links to route 6 - an altogether more exciting route.
Pedantic of Purley | 05.06.12 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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I used to go to Streatham ice rink every Saturday morning. Tesco promised that the old rink wouldn't be demolished before the replacement was ready. Huh!
Where the Whitgift Centre now stands was once Trinity boys' school (officially, the Trinity School of John Whitgift) whose playing fields were excitingly overlooked from some of our classromms over the road.
Barbara | Homepage | 05.06.12 - 9:41 a.m. | #
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@Barry, i am fully expecting DG's blog to look at it does now in 13 years time, and for the Reddit'ers to still be complaining about it ...
Geofftech | Homepage | 05.06.12 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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Happy memories of the Tudor Rose. As a 6th former at Purley Boys next door (now Coulsdon College)it was the perfect place to hide from the prefects whilst supping on a 'coke'.
In those days it was the 190 not the 60 that would be parked outside. The girls school down the road finished at 3.30, we had to work until 4.00 so we wouldn't clash at the bus stop. I recall it was a caning offence to be seen mingling with girls after school hours!
Steve | 05.06.12 - 11:51 a.m. | #
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Happier days:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/6819328777/
Kim | 05.06.12 - 12:47 p.m. | #
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I could hardly believe my eyes when I opened your blog and saw you had been to my old hometown Thornton Heath. My bus to Croydon was the 190, went from Brigstock Road in those days, and I went to school on it every day til I got a bike. The Croydon area has changed considerably in the last 50 years, it was not nearly so busy, had a bit of a village atmosphere. Later on I lived by the Half Moon Pub, sorry to hear it has gone. It was in the Mayday Hospital where I had my tonsils out in 1950. I don't visit the area much anymore, despite it being only a few miles up the road, too depressing, just keep my memories.
TinafromSurrey | 05.06.12 - 7:32 p.m. | #
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Oh and I went to the ice rink too every Saturday, it was a rite of passage, and a good place to meet boys! 1/6p for a half hour lesson.
TinafromSurrey | 05.06.12 - 7:34 p.m. | #
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@Geofftech, DG may well be here in 13 years but Reddit will be long gone...
popartist | 05.06.12 - 8:06 p.m. | #
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Surely the Self-Righteous Redditers are long gone already?
You really should have taken up the PR email offer of a ticket to the Jubilee Concert y'know ;)
Blue Witch | Homepage | 05.06.12 - 8:46 p.m. | #
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I was born in one of the prefabs in South lodge Avenue Pollards Hill, I remember that it had a gas fridge and the whole structure was very well designed, sadly it was demolished many years ago.
fishislandskin | 05.06.12 - 10:43 p.m. | #
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I remember in the 1960's bus route 60 was still going up and down the Edgware Road at Colindale in N/W London.
http://www.red-rf.com/rf-635
Bernie | 06.06.12 - 7:14 a.m. | #
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