Wigan Album

I can still smell the rotten Woodbines and feel the burning in my throat...Yuk.

Note plates on the front for striking matches.

I recall at one time on buses there was sometimes a warning notice about the consequences of slashing seats; sometimes another word would be added to the notice and the meaning would be altered entirely!

I presume this bus had the old long bench seats weher 5 or so people squashed up on.

I remember the "No Spitting" notices, and also the "Wilful Damage" notices, and broken glass on the tops of walls to deter thieves.

This bus is in the museum in Manchester. It doesn't have the long bench seats.

A.W. the penny has only just dropped!!! Operative word being'on'! Think I led a sheltered life! There was always some wag altering wording on anything official. Anyway it gave me laugh!

Vb, NO before Slashing ON before seats

The P in spitting was also altered!

Carolaen the long bench seats were only used on Leyland PD1 Low bridge double deckers. This bus is Leyland Titan Reg DJP 754, as you can see, fleet number 115.

I used to like reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs

There's nothing clever about Graffiti and slashed seats, there just mindless yobs.

i was a conductor in 1962 and worked on that very bus all the pits had pit head baths i never saw anybody in their dirt

As it says, the sign is a leftover from the days when the Pits didn't have Pithead Baths.

This bus dates from 1957, did pits not have baths by then?

i worked at golbourne colliery in 1959 till 61 and we had pit head baths then

actually the sign used to say please refrain from the objectional habit of spitting

In the years before WW2 many Pits did not have Baths and Miners would be making their way home with their lungs and nasal passages blocked with the coal dust they had been breathing all day. Some of these Miners were not too fussy about how they got rid of this coal dust and that's why this Bye-Law was enacted.
By the time that this Bus came into service the Pits had been nationalised and most of them had Baths, as a result spitting on the bus was not such a problem. That's why I stated when I uploaded the Photo that the Bye Law was a leftover from times gone by.

Re pit head baths. Go to http://www.dmm.org.uk/news19/9310207.htm Then click onto "Durham Mining Museum."

Anyone that has an interest in mining history will find this website of particular interest. Far more to absorb, other than pit head baths.http://www.dmm.org.uk/news19/9310207.htm