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hell was let loose as boys pushed, shoved
and lurched onto the bus, usually with
recriminations from firstly, the
conductor but mainly the general public.
The panic increased with the extra input
from the Girls Grammar School. I remember
Mr. Brown, in his first few weeks in 1963
as Headmaster, having to deal with a
complaint from Crosville as some PGS
villain had unscrewed two lightbulbs from
the top deck! I remember sitting in
french with 'Chuck' Berry when the
message, 'All boys on the half-past four
H14 report to the hall.' We heard that
phrase with alarming regularity
afterwards. If my memory
serves me well, the bus type above had a
range of different seating plans on the
top deck. Firstly, there was the standard
two columns each with two seats abreast.
Secondly, one column of 'bench'seats for
four people with the aisle on the offside
of the bus. However, I seem to remember a
'diagonal' seating pattern again in fours
across the bus, very strange, but someone
at Crosville must have thought it a good
idea!
The bus
would leave Prescot, slide down Prescot
Hill, eventually turning up Huyton Lane
at the Brookbridge Garage. It's journey
would continue past the Huyton and
Prescot Golf Club before dropping me off
at the Whiston Lane stop. From there, it
would take a detour around the Mosscroft
estate, rejoining Huyton Lane at the
bottom of Longview Road and foolowing it
into Huyton Village Centre and Archway
Road. From there on it made its way
towards Bowring Park, via the Tarbock
Road shops and the Stanley Arms to the
outer limit of the Grammar Schools'
catchment areas.
For the
Bus-Obsessive try http://www.britishbus.co.uk/crosville.htm for a more
detailed history of the Crosville Bus
Company!
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