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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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