Tag: Ronnie Hoye
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Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee
As this year marks Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee, I thought you may be interested in a couple of old pictures I’ve found. The first one is of Northumberland Street in Newcastle upon Tyne which had been decorated for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937, note the pre war dark blue livery of the…
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Worswick Street Bus Station Newcastle
Continuing the bus station theme I would like to offer mine for the ‘Gallery’ page, although I only have one picture. It is ‘or rather was’ Worswick Street Bus Station in Newcastle, the bunting and decoration for the Festival of Britain puts the date as 1951. Apart from the Sunderland & District Leyland on stand…
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Metro Centre May 2013
On Sunday 5th May, armed only with my mobile phone I set off for the Metro Centre in Gateshead. Now call me old fashioned, but life was much simpler when phones were for talking, and you took photos with a camera loaded with a roll of film, but that’s another story. Anyway, here are some…
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Newcastle Bus Stations – Part Three
Not seen this gallery from the beginning, click here Haymarket & Eldon Square Haymarket is the only one of the original three still in use, most services were operated by United, although Newcastle Corporation Transport had two, the NGT, Tynemouth & District and Wakefields Motors subsidiaries ‘Percy Main’ had three. The service 5, to Darras…
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Newcastle Bus Stations – Part Two
Not seen this gallery from the beginning, click here Worswick Street The opening of the Tyne Bridge in 1928 saw a huge upsurge in cross Tyne bus movements, and services which had previously terminated in Gateshead could now continue on to Newcastle. As a result, a new bus station was needed to accommodate the extra…
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Newcastle Bus Stations – Part One
When I started driving buses, Newcastle had three bus Stations, Haymarket, Marlborough Crescent and Worswick Street. That was in 1967, Eldon Square came later, and as far as I can remember Gallowgate was at that time a United depot/workshops, which after the creation of NBC became the start point for long distance services. There were…
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Northern General Transport Percy Main Depot – Part Three
Not read Part Two click here A handful of Percy Main’s service vehicles carried the Wakefields name, and we’ve seen a couple of examples, but we turn now to the other side of their operations, they also had a superb fleet of coaches. I don’t think it ever exceeded twenty in number, but they were…
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Northern General Transport Percy Main Depot – Part Two
Not read Part One click here The layout of the lights on this Weymann bodied AEC Regent suggests that it could be from 1940, but the registration indicates post war. Percy Main had six, FT 5222/7 – 112/7, and they set the trend for many of the post war vehicles. This 1946, Guy Arab was…
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Northern General Transport Percy Main Depot – Part One
The story of The Northern General Transport Company Ltd starts in 1913, but the history of some of its subsidiaries goes back even further. Two of them were Tynemouth and District Transport Co and Wakefields Motors Limited; this is a brief and by no means complete history of those two. It would take far too…
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The Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads Company Limited
I am extremely grateful to Tony Fox, and Bill Donald, for their help in putting this article together. The Tyneside name ceased to exist as an identity in 1975, inevitably, some records have been lost entirely, and in instances where I am aware of more than one account of events, I have pointed this out,…