November 1973 – A frosty morning at Weir Street, Rochdale with a rear end line up of Plaxton Panorama Elite bodied AEC Reliances. The roadway is actually Weir Street, from which the coach station derived its name but, much to the consternation of would be passengers, never appeared in the Manchester area ‘A to Z’ map book. Once upon a time stone buildings occupied the land where the coaches were now parked. On the right is the retaining wall of the River Roch, which gives Rochdale its name (despite the river being pronounced ‘roach’) which, a little further upstream beyond the office building and garage was a weir which gave Weir Street its name. The coach station and garage frontage can be seen. The street along the front of the coaches, used by vehicles leaving the premises, was Penn Street at the time (later renamed Ink Street). The site has been redeveloped and is occupied by the Number One Riverside building of Rochdale Borough Council.