A work colleague was selling a 35mm SLR camera and gave me a try and buy option. This would have been my first camera of such type but it was faulty so I didn’t purchase it. The shutter didn’t always fully open resulting in some frames having a dark area on the left of the print. Some images were clearer on the left and less clear on the right. Also, my lack of experience with such a style of camera didn’t help! Despite all this the photos do have a historical interest forty odd years later!

Saturday 21 July 1984 – Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited LL753 (MCL 935P), an Alexander TE bodied Leyland Leopard new in May 1976, seen loading for Peterborough in Brentgovel Street, Bury St. Edmunds outside the bus station.

The bus station was on the corner of Brentgovel Street and Cornhill where the MacDonald’s restaurant was subsequently built. Trinity Methodist Church dominates the background at right.