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London’s First Red Bus: A Revolutionary Milestone

On this day in 1925, the first Red Buses with the enclosed roof’s appeared for the first time in London Please note: it is not the Routemaster model in the picture Here is a Pathe film from 1927 of some roofed buses that were going down the Mall to Buckingham Palace.  

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The Balham Bombing: Rediscovering a Forgotten Tragedy

Over eighty years ago, on October 14, 1940, in the South London area of Balham, a devastating bombing raid produced one of the stand-out pictures of the blitz, with a photograph of the number 88 London Bus, on the last run of the day, sunk in the bomb crater above the Balham tube station. The […]