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1949-50 Easter tour bus
1949-50 Easter tour bus
Photo: Martin Rigby
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Item #: 22867
Looks like a refreshment break.

Comment by: Mick on 8th March 2013 at 18:17

Taken outside the Blacksmith's Arms, at Broughton Mills near Broughton in Furness.

Comment by: Neddie Gray on 8th March 2013 at 22:40

wrong Mick - thats the Squirrel at Ince Bar and I bought Jack Robey a half!

Comment by: Mick on 9th March 2013 at 00:18

That's a fair owd dirt ruck at t'back of it, Neddie !

Comment by: Horace on 9th March 2013 at 08:06

Well there's always a first Neddie. Is that Rammy and Alan Atherton on there as well? Malcolm Holland usually turns up on these trips.....if its free le of course!

Comment by: Ralph on 9th March 2013 at 12:05

That's never the squirrel on Ince Bar. Thw white building says Fred Tyson on the sign

Comment by: derekb on 9th March 2013 at 14:09

The coach appears to be one of 'Fred' Websters whose booking office was at the bottom of Market St. The firm became Smiths and morphed over the years into what is now Smiths Shearings

Comment by: Mick on 9th March 2013 at 14:57

Neddie jests, Ralph.
It's the Blacksmiths Arms near Broughton in Furness. Fred Tyson was still landlord there when he died in the early 1970s.

Comment by: Cliff Peters on 9th March 2013 at 15:36

That's Alan Atherton far left in his zoo keepers outfit,he used to do the voices of the animals just like Johnny Morris. He was such a card in those halcyon days.

Comment by: Ralph on 9th March 2013 at 17:22

Thanks Mick, as an Incer I thought I must be missing summat if that was the squirell

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