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Crowds at the official opening of the ifnal section of the M5 motorway Crowds at the official opening of the ifnal section of the M5 motorway Prime Minister James Callaghan and Greenslades 375 Prime Minister James Callaghan prepares to cut the tape to officially open the final stage of the M5 motorway at Exeter

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]]> Sun Sep 27 2009 Postcard views http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c1315758.html Postcard views Sunday 1 July 2007: Postcard views

Weston-Super-Mare, Grand Pier. Kandys Band, the Aeolian Opera Singers and The Bioscope showing on the pier c.1912. Postcard from From Pte S Champion, 55 Clevedon Road, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, to Mrs Mew 57 Field Road, Reading, Berks, almost certainly posted during the war. [Harvey Barton & Son, Bristol/Alan O. Watkins Colln] Kidderminster Ombersley Village near Worcester.Boots, Chemist 'Pelham' Series. [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Holt Heath - Early Valentines card (pre-WW1 to judge from the clothes) with a steam launch from Stourport-on-Severn. Wigan Pier. Valentines G.8703. [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Weston-Super-Mare - Knightstone from Pier. Posted Weston-S-Mare, 7.30pm, 21 Aug [19]14. Lull before the storm... the weather was Kidderminster - note the policeman in his box directing traffic through the town centre [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Evesham, the Booth Hall [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

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]]> Sun Jul 1 2007 Lynmouth and North Devon http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c1306514.html Lynmouth and North Devon Monday 18 June 2007: Lynmouth and North Devon

The steep gradient of Porlock Hill, Som[erset]. Vowles, Minehead. Postmarked Brendon A, 2 August 1926. Addtressed to Miss Ada Smith, c/o 132 Sutton Road, Kidderminster, Worcs. Part of the message reds: Dear Ada - What do you think of this famous hill.... My heart is in my mouth when the motor is climbing them.... Annie Lynton and District multi-view, showing Watersmeet, Lynton from Holiday Hill, View from Countisbury Hill, Lee Bay and Wood Bay, and (centrepiece) Valley of Rocks. Postmarked Lynton, devon 6pm, 23 July 1959, but according to the writer, Miss Gwen Winter, it was written on July 24 from Aberlyn, Lynmouth. She wrote to Ms Gove, The Wembley, Ilfracombe: Mars Hill, Lynmouth. Published by Twiss Bros., Ilfracombe - 355 Lyn Mill, Lynton. Published by Twiss Bros., Ilfracombe - 25 MArs Hill, Lynmouth. Judges 10154. Lynton, North Walk. Frith card. Lynmouth from the Quay. VAlentine 9902. Mint. Lynmouth, The Tors. Frith 63856. Mint. Pre-QWorld War I to judge from the girl's clothes. River Taw and 13th Century Bridge, Barnstaple. Published by Percival Harris, High Street, Barnstaple, and postmarked August 14, 1913. It was addressed to Master G[eorge] Beston at the Grand Hotel, Dawlish from his Auntie Connie. Bideford from Upcott Hill. Valentine 88223. Mint. West Lyn Valley, Lynmouth. Valentine 9932A. Mint. Lynmouth. Mars Hill. Another pre-World WAr I Peacock Lynmouth. The Rising Sunn Inn advertises Apartments, while two men relax in front of the Union Flag. On the left two young women rest on their folded parasols, while further up Mars Hill a woman in a white pinafore watchest he photographer. Two men are working on a ladder higher up the hill. But can you spot the little boy peeping around the corner? A Peacock Brand Mars Hill, Lynmouth. Published by Richards, Tobacconist, Lynmouth - 9597 (the shop is on the extreme right, next to the woman and her child, concealed behind the two old sailors.. Written from Neubin House, Lynton, on 7 August 1931 to C P Davis Esq., Southcot, 12 Victoria Rd., Mill Hill, London. Lantern Hill and Hillsboro', Ilfracombe. Publisher not identified, but card numbered 4092. Addressed to Mr Eric Adams, 87 Crosby Road, West bridgford, Notts, and stamped Ilfracombe 4pm, 12 July 1930. Lynmouth Harbour. Photochrom 32502. Mint. Lynmouth from Mars Hill. Postmarked Barnstaple 6pm, 26 June, 1960, and addressed to Miss G A BErrie, 13 Bonnington Grove, Heavitree, Exeter Lynton and Lynmouth. Chapman & Son, Publishers, DAwlist -15560. The Lyndale Hotel amnd Bridge, Lynmouth. Lilywhite Lts, Triangle, Halifax. Postmarked Lynton,, 5.30pm, 7 July 1928. Addressed to Chris, Reg and Hubert Pollard, 8 derby Road, heaton Moor, Manchester. Mint real photocard showing the harbour in Lynmouth at low tide. Castle Rock, Lynton. Salmon 2481 in the Gravure Style. Postmarked Ilfracombe 1939. Lynton and Lynmouth. No publisher details. Postmarked Lynton, devon 1pm, 19 June 1949 to Mrs Bridges, 5 Boverton Drive, Brockworth, Gloucester, it reads: Lee Abbey and Bay, Lynton - The Wrench Series, No. 1721. Printed in Saxony, postmarked Lynton Sorting Office, 11.45am, October 21, 1907, and addressed to a Miss Scrivenor, 70 Gainsford Street, Kentish Town, London Lynmouth the Aug 1952 Fkiid. Watersmeet Valley. F Frith, Reigate - LYH.30 Lynmouth - Frith's 1920s Lynmouth - Charles Worcester, Bristol, dated 11-09-1919 Lynmouth - Gunns, Lynton dated 29-07-37 Lynmouth - Raphael Tuck (for E J Pedder, Lynmouth) Lynmouth - Lighthouse and harbour Lynmouth - Lighthouse and harbour after the flood Lynmouth - Lighthouse and harbour before the flood Lynmouth - Harbour Lynmouth - The lighthouse from Mars Hill Lynmouth - The lighthouse from Mars Hill Lynmouth - The lighthouse from Mars Hill Lynmouth - The lighthouse from Mars Hill Lynmouth - The lighthouse from Mars Hill Lynmouth - The lighthouse from Mars Hill Lynmouth - Countrisbury Hill and the old stagecoach service Lynmouth - The lighthouse from Mars Hill (postcard dated 29-08-49) Lynmouth - Countisbury Hill Lynmouth - Countisbury Hill Frith postcard of the 1952 Lynmouth disaster. In the background can be see the Bedford bus which kept people in touch with life. The scale of the flood, where it swept away the bridge, can be seen. [Frith LYH 36; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Lynmouth harbour from Mars Hill with a Campbell steamer in the background (Plastichrome WHS 560) [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Lynmouth Lynmouth, Glen Lyn Lynmouth, Glen Lyn Lynmouth, Tors Hotel Lynmouth, Watersmeet Lynton cliff railway soon after opening. This may have been an official opening picture.

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]]> Mon Jun 18 2007 Portsmouth and Southsea http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c828803.html Portsmouth and Southsea Sunday 15 January 2006: Portsmouth and Southsea

Southsea - South Parade Pier [Photo-Precision 1263; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Southsea - South Parade Pier - A Harrington-bodied Leyland Tiger PS1, thought by Roger Funnell of RF Total Solutions to belong to Basil Williams [Photo-Precision 1263; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Southsea - South Parade Pier - a Portsmouth Corporation Wadhams-bodied Leyland Cheetah is partly masked by Portsmouth's trolleybus poles [Photo-Precision 1263; Alan O. Watkins Colln]

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]]> Sun Jan 15 2006 Worthing http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c828802.html Worthing Sunday 15 January 2006: Worthing

Worthing Pavilion and Front looking West [Philco; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Worthing Pavilion and Front looking West - the nearest charabanc is registered CD 4957 [Philco; Alan O. Watkins Colln] [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Worthing in the 1950s with three Southdown coaches. The appearance of an underfloor engine Leyland at the front of the queue helps to date the picture. The card was published by Photochrom, ref. V 5599. Card is dated October 13, 1955. [Alan O. Watkins Coll]

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]]> Sun Jan 15 2006 Kent coast http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c828801.html Kent coast Sunday 15 January 2006: Kent coast

Chatham ships laid up pre-World War I [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Margate Clock Tower and Sands [Paragon, Margate; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Margate Clock Tower and Sands - the coach visible to the left of the tower [Paragon, Margate; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Margate Clock Tower and Sands [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Margate Clock Tower and Sands - a high-bodied horse bus picks up passengers near the clock tower [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

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]]> Sun Jan 15 2006 Scottish scenes http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c828793.html Scottish scenes Sunday 15 January 2006: Scottish scenes

Glencoe Hotel with various buses and charabancs in the foreground, waiting to depart. [Valentine A1416; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glen Shee - A heavily doctored postcard with stuck-on Tilling AEC Regal/ECW rebodied coaches. (This is the upper portion: note the caoch door is on the wrong side, and the Tilling named has been reveresed). [J B White, Dundee - 1613; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glen Shee - A heavily doctored postcard with stuck-on Tilling AEC Regal/ECW rebodied coaches. Lower detail: Note the same coach is involved, but pictured the correct way round. [J B White, Dundee - 1613; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glen Shee - A heavily doctored postcard with stuck-on Tilling AEC Regal/ECW rebodied coaches. [J B White, Dundee - 1613; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glen Shee - A heavily doctored postcard with stuck-on Tilling AEC Regal/ECW rebodied coaches. (This is the upper portion: note the caoch door is on the wrong side, and the Tilling named has been reveresed). This is a different postcard, numbered 1614 [J B White, Dundee - 1614; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glen Shee - Eastern Scottish Bristol LS/ECW coach about to tackle the Devil's Elbow in Glen Shee. [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Fort William, Station Square - two Macbraynes coaches [Valentines B4269; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Rest and be Thankful, Glen Croe [Spencer 474; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glen Shee - A Leyland Tiger tackles the Devil's Elbow [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Dundee, City Square, High Street and The Law - heavily retouched picture [Valentine B1040; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Dundee, High Street - heavily retouched picture [Valentine D2218; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Dundee, High Street - heavily retouched picture. Close up of the three buses[Valentine D2218; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glasgow - Glasgow Bridge. [C Richter B4806; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glasgow - Glasgow Bridge. The coach on the left appears to be a Maudsley Regal belonging to Macbraynes [C Richter B4806; Alan O. Watkins Colln]

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]]> Sun Jan 15 2006 Devon and Cornwall http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c828695.html Devon and Cornwall Sunday 15 January 2006: Devon and Cornwall

Ilfracombe - St Phillips and James Church with a motorised toastrack bus in the foreground. J. Weklch & Sons, Portsmouth 1687 [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Ilfracombe - St Phillips and James Church with a motorised toastrack bus in the foreground. Close up detail of the bus. J. Weklch & Sons, Portsmouth 1687 [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Hawthorn tied up at Appledore (North Devon) quay. [E A Sweetman, Tunbridge Wells-49175; Alan O. Watkins Colln] Meadfoot Beach and Marine Drive, Torquay with one of the 1959 Devon General Leyland Atlantean buses. [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Plymouth in the mid-1950s, with a Bristol LWL/ECW coach Plymouth before the blitz damage was rebuilt. A number of Plymouth Corporation Leyland Titans can be seen. But aLeyland Atlantean in the approaching traffic lane dates this view after 1959. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Tavistock (Guildhall Square) with a 1930s Mumford-bodied coach. Frith. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Tiverton, Fore Street with a Western National Leyland / Beadle in the distance [[Alan O. Watkins Colln; (c) Frith postcard]

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]]> Sun Jan 15 2006 Horse power http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c559894.html Horse power Monday 30 May 2005: Horse power

Horse drawn bus in the Village, Black Country Museum Horse drawn bus at the Black Country Museum

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]]> Mon May 30 2005 London Airport http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c414880.html London Airport Saturday 29 January 2005: London Airport

Two Elizabethans, a Douglas Skymaster, Lockheed Cpnstellation and (centre) a Viscount BEA Elizabethan and Viscount aircraft BEA Viscount, BEA Commer Commander bus and the airline's engineering base

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]]> Sat Jan 29 2005 Bournemouth - The Pier http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c400562.html Bournemouth - The Pier Sunday 16 January 2005: Bournemouth - The Pier

Bournemouth with a Bournemouth Leyland Cub climbing from the pier Bournemouth - the Pier with an opentop Leyland Titan, in the 1960s Shelvoke & Drewry Tram-o-car in Bournemouth (from a postcard) Bournemouth - a different Tram-o-car in the foreground Bournemouth - the Pier in the early 1930s Bournemouth - the Pier in the mid Sixties Bournemouth in the 1950s Bournemouth - The Pier in the 1940s Bournemouth - prewar, with Leyland Cub (?) in the background Bournemouth - Boscombe Pier with a Guy Arab opentopper nearest the camera (dated 1972) Bournemouth - A Thorneycroft saloon is in the foreground Bournemouth, East Beach. Note the singledecker on the Promenade. Postmarked Bournemouth, Hants - Aug 21, 1929 (5.45pm) [Alan O. Watkins Coll] [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Bournemouth Bournemouth - Sunken Cliff and West Garden. To Miss Bond, 24 Brookside Road, Fulwood, Preston, posted Bournemouth - Poole, 10.15am, 8 Aug, 1955. Message reads: Bournemouth with a colourful selection of charabancs. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Bournemouth 140 VJT 140S Bournemouth, West Cliff On the West Cliffe looking West, Bournemouth - 3767

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]]> Sun Jan 16 2005 Bournemouth - The Square http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c399835.html Bournemouth - The Square Saturday 15 January 2005: Bournemouth - The Square

Bournemouth - The Square in the 1940s Bournemouth - The Square in the early 1920s Bournemouth - The Square in the 1920s Bournemouth - The Square with a busy traffic scene in the late 1950s Bournemouth - The Square with the tram terminus at its heart Bournemouth - The Square with trolleybuses plying their way Bournemouth - The Square (poorly screened original) Bournemouth - The Square in the early Fifties Bournemouth - Hants & Dorset FS in the NBC red colours post-merger with Wilts & Dorset Bournemouth - Corporation trolleybus, Hants & Dorset K and Leyland PD1 Bournemouth - three trolleybuses Bournemouth - a corporation PD3, a Black & White AEC Reliance and a Hants & Dorset K-type date this to the early Sixties Bournemouth - seven Bournemouth trolleys, and from Hants & Dorset a Lodekka, Bristol K and an AEC Regent - dated to the mid Fifties Bournemouth - two Royal Blue AEC Q/Duple caoches and the obligatory Bournemouth trolleybuses date this to the late Thirties Bournemouth - a 1968 Charlie's Cars, Bournemouth, Bedford VAL/Duple Northern follows a corporation trolleybus into The Square. A TD5 Titan heads off to the right. Bournemouth, and charabancs wait for business in the centre of the resort. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Bournemouth Bournemouth, The Square with a Leyland Titan TD5 and a Sunbeam trolleybus on the right, and another trolleybus. Published by Deardon and Wade, Bournemouth. Mint. Bournemouth Bournemouth, Dorset - The Square and Town Centre. Wilts and Dorset bristol FS and, on the hill, two Bournemouth Corporation yellow buses are just visible. Published by John Hinde [Distributors] Ltd. Distributed by J Perkins (Wholesale) Ltd., 65 Cleveland Road, Bournemouth. Bournemouth Square, with a Bournemouth Shelvoke & Drewry Tramocar on the extreme right [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Bournemouth Square with a Shelvoke & Drewery Tramocar on the extreme right. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Bournemouth, The Square Tram and horse carriages

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]]> Sat Jan 15 2005 Charabanc outings http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c399015.html Charabanc outings Friday 14 January 2005: Charabanc outings

Carding Mill Valley, Shropshire - BMMO saloon, about 1924 Bognor Regis, about 1910 Brimham Rocks Carlisle, about 1934 Early charabanc outing - note the rear seating! Crosville 34 Jones and Gidley, Torre, Torquay, on a chara outing 1922 Rambler, Bournmeouth Karrier CX charabanc 14-seater, EL 6962, which helped to form the basis of the Shamrock & Rambler fleet in 1924. It was sold in 1930. Royal Blue 12A Royal Blue (?Llandudno?) 12A Karrier CX 4520 on an all-male day out Shamrock & Rambler 26 White Heather 4 AEC XA 8670 on a ladies outing Forest Queen, Bournemouth - 2 (RU 7344) Bournemouth with a soft-top chara racing across the square in pursuit of a Bournemouth saloon. Brooke Brothers, Rhyl DM 722 Crossley (?) charabanc of the early 1920s An American-built Republic can just be spotted. The registration appears to be HA 8. Charlie's Cars, Bournemouth 26 (ARU 801) AEC XA 8670 on a Ladies' outing Worthing c. 1914 Pneumatic-tyred charabanc Hereford - charabanc Near Lynmouth and Lynton, a Commer solid-wheeled charabanc races down the Lyn Valley. Note the young lady standing well back from the impending wave of dust in the wake of the descending bus. Vowles, Minehead H6. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Porlock, and a car attacks the 1 in 4 hill. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Royal Blue charabanc [Alan O. Watkins Coll] A Leyland RAF charabanc, complete with passengers, uniformed driver ..... and an agricultrual worker! [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Eames Tours, Shanklin charabanc. Gay. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Unregistered, heavily laden doubledecker outside Saunders, 50 St Peters Street, Canterbury (??steam bus??)

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]]> Fri Jan 14 2005 London Transport in postcards http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c384188.html London Transport in postcards Saturday 1 January 2005: London Transport in postcards

AN 1176 outside the Bank of England Bank of England, card dated 20 Sept 1909 Electrobus LN 710 with LC 2338 at the Bank of Egland London - Leicester Square (about 1909) London, Piccadily Circus (about 1897) London, Piccadily Circus (about 1900) Piccadilly Circus c 1899 Piccadilly Circus c 1900 Piccadilly Circus c 1905 London, Piccadily Circus (about 1899) General LN 8654 and AN 817 London - Regent Street (Valentine) Trams and a B-type date this picture top around 1913 Electrobus LN 719 Early motorbuses on the 12 and 24 routes pass the War Office in Whitehall. [Postcard, Alan O. Watkins Colln] Whitehall c. 1922 [Alan O. Watkins Coll] London Transport B-type in a rural London setting - but where is it? Hyde Park Corner, London [Selfridge & Co; Alan O Watkins Colln] Hyde Park Corner, London - close up of the bus [Selfridge & Co; Alan O Watkins Colln] Whitehall c. 1922 [Alan O. Watkins Coll] London Bridge - undivided back. Horse-drawn buses en masse. London General K1044 (XD 8308). Photomatic, North Mymms p/card. [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

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]]> Sat Jan 1 2005 Trolleybuses http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c383030.html Trolleybuses Wednesday 7 April 2004: Trolleybuses

Cooden, Sussex - trolleybus operation Pontypridd 8 (GNY 301) Ipswich, with corporation singledeck trolleybus and Eastern Counties saloon [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Ipswich, with corporation singledeck trolleybus and Eastern Counties saloon (detail) [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Darlington, with singledeck trolleybus, about 1946

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]]> Wed Apr 7 2004 Coaches http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c282894.html Coaches Saturday 3 April 2004: Coaches

Hippy Peace Convoy, 1986 - J/V Postcards Hippy Peace Convoy, 1986 - J/V Postcards GWR West Kirby, Bedford/Duple (c. 1960)

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]]> Sat Apr 3 2004 Ships http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c226570.html Ships Friday 9 July 2004: Ships

Ship outside Cumberland Basin Briton_, Saxon and Arlanza in Southampton Canberra Gravesend boat house - mentioned in Dickens Troop ship Neuralia Nieuw Amsterdam Ramsgate harbour RMS Adriatic RMS Adriatic RMS Cedric RMS Majestic Royal Edward SS Arabia Terra Nova in Cardiff Union Castle four-stacker Bayern, German battleship, sinking after she was scuttled on 26 JAnuary 1919 [(c) C W Burrows; Alan O. WAtkins Colln] Bayern, German battleship, sinking after she was scuttled on 26 JAnuary 1919 [(c) C W Burrows; Alan O. WAtkins Colln] Rothesay, Isle of Bute - ,miltiplicity of buses and arriving pleasure boat ss Berlin First World War four-stacker. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] RMS Arabic was laid down in Harland and Woolf's Belfast yard as Atlantic Transport Line's Minnewaska. When the firm was taken over, the emerging craft was renamed. She was launched at the Arabic in December 1902. The ship was torpedoed by U-24 off the Old Head of Kinsale on August 19, 1915. She sank in 15 minutes. Dead - 44, Rescued - 390. ASTURIAS [Alan O. Watkins Coll] RMTS Asturias of the Royal Mail Lines. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] HMT Field Marshall was one of a large fleet of ships that moved the British Army around the world between the World Wars. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] HMT Field Marshall, which in 1922 was used to transport people back from Egypt to the UK. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] HMS Majestic, pre-Dreadnought. She was launched in 1896 ( HMT Neuralia [Alan O. Watkins Coll] HMT Nevasa [Alan O. Watkins Coll] HMT Nevasa, a much travelled troop transport between the World Wars. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Southampton, Princess Dock with the Briton, Saxon and Arlanza. RMS Saxon (1899 - 1935; Union Line, later Union-Castle Line). She was used for troop transport from 1917, and repatriated Australian troops before she was returned to fulltime passenger service in 1919., and remained on the mail service until 1930. Clifton - Suspension Bridge. Postmarked Fishponds, Bristol Oc 15, [19]12. Ship is unidentified. [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Teignmouth with a selection of barques in the harbour [Alan O. Watkins Coll] HMS Valiant (1914 - 1948) saw action at Jutland, Cape Matapan, Sicily, Salerno, and escorted the Italian fleet into Malta when it surrendered during the Second World War. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] HMS St Vincent was commissioned in 1910, served at Jutland, and was sold for scrap in 1921. [Alan O. Watkins Coll] Andrea Doria sinking [Postcard from Alan O. Watkins Colln] Georges Philippar Amsterdam [Postcard, Alan O. Watkins Colln] Acquitainia [Postcard, Alan O. Watkins Colln] Concrete-hulled ship in Barry docks, South Wales Empress of China, the Canadian Pacific ship, leaving for the Orient Appledore c. 1930 [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Empress of France Reverse of postcard showing HMS Majestic HMS Majestic

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]]> Fri Jul 9 2004 Trams http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c225965.html Trams Monday 3 January 2005: Trams

City of Gloucester Tramways - 1 in 1904 City of Gloucester Tramways - 1 in 1904 Leicester, Midland Street Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Birmingham steam tram Kidderminster and Stourport singledeck tram in Stourport High Street Kidderminster and Stourport tram number 2 Glasgow - Broomielaw. The Glasgow trams are 943 followed by 722. The one heading away from the camera is not identifiable. [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glasgow - JAmaice Bridge. Tram 714. [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street Glasgow - Glasgow Bridge Cruden Bay Hotel, Aberdeen - with tram [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Cruden Bay Hotel, Aberdeen - detail, showing the tram [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Edinburgh at the end of the First World War with trams and a solitary bus [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Edinburgh at the end of the First World War with trams and a solitary bus - detail [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Tramway Centre, Bristol with Bristol C50-type bus AE 3686 and tram 123 in the Gloucester: Southgate Street with two trams in about 1905 (Pelham Series, 2818) [Alan O. Watkins Colln] Newcastle-on-Tyne - Tyne Bridge. WHS & S., Ltd Birmingham steam tram Kidderminster and Stourport Tram Bristol City tram 16 and an early Bristol doubledecker in Whiteladies Road, Clifton Gloucester's first tram to the Avenue Hotel, Bristol Road. This was almost certainly a proving run in advance of the official opening.

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]]> Mon Jan 3 2005 Trains http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c225764.html Trains Thursday 8 July 2004: Trains

Steam train on Mont St Michel causeway Valenciennes station after it was heavily shelleed in the First World War

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]]> Thu Jul 8 2004 River craft http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c225385.html River craft Wednesday 7 July 2004: River craft

River Severn pleasure craft River Severn pleasure craft Tower Bridge Stourport-on-Severn, pictured after floods in the mid-Twenties [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

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]]> Wed Jul 7 2004 Buses http://transportpostcards.fotopic.net/c213479.html Buses Wednesday 5 January 2005: Buses

East Kent's Kirbys Lane works, Canterbury, in the 1920s. [Saunders, 50 St Peters St., Canterbury/Alan O. Watkins Colln] SP 6740 East Kent CJG 951 in St Peters Street, Canterbury. [Saunders, 50 St Peters St., Canterbury/Alan O. Watkins Colln] Herne Bay and Canterbury doubledecker, pre World War 1. [Saunders, 50 St Peters St., Canterbury/Alan O. Watkins Colln] St Peters Bus Station, Canterbury [Saunders, 50 St Peters St., Canterbury/Alan O. Watkins Colln] Mosta Church, Malta [Joseph Calleja, Valetta, Malta/Alan O. Watkins Colln] Abbots Langley, AEC Regal Banbury - Cross and Church, c.1936. Valentine's BMMO in Bewdley High Street Bewdley, Worcs. BMMO saloon, about 1955 Birmingham, AEC 504, about 1934 Birmingham, Hagley Road - horse bus, about 1903 Bognor c.1910 Brighton aquarium about 1930 Brimham Rocks in Shropsire Bristol two-tonner at the top of Clifton Hill Clifton (Bristol University) with Bristol 2-tonner, about 1930 Bristol B-type at the foot of Bristol, with Bristol B-type Bristol Centre with different Bristol K-types Broadway, Worcs, with Midland Red saloon, about 1946 Bromyard, Herefordshire, about 1964 Birmingham, Bull Ring and Daimler Fleetlines, about 1970 Carlisle c. 1926 Carlisle c. 1927 Carlisle c. 1934 Chatham, about 1950 Cheltenham District Transport Guy doubeldecker Clevedon with a Bristol J/BBW type, about 1948 Deal, about 1964 Droitwich, with BMMO doubledecker, about 1959 Ealing horse bus Gilford YT 5760 which used to run the A2 between Dover and London Bristol; Greyhound bus on Bristol Bridge in the 1920s Great Yarmouth (about 1935) Great Yarmouth (about 1930) Blue Bird, Guernsey - 6 (1410) Great Western Railway 190 Hagley Road, Birmingham - Midland Red motorbus and Birmingham City horse bus Halifax with AEC Regent (about 1935) Chad Valley in Harborne, with a horse bus waiting for a long-dressed lady Harrogate (possibly about 1930) Hastings (about 1927) Hull, c.1925, with Bristol A-type doubledecker Hungerford (about 1938) Tilling LH 9448 Liverpool Mersey tunnel entrance c.1957 Liverpool - Liver Building and Overhead Railway Lowestoft and AEC Regent (about 1932) Manchester - Corporation doubledecker (about 1906)

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