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 RL665 (PPW 665R), an Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol RELL new in May 1968, seen in Bury St. Edmunds. Trinity Methodist Church dominates the background. From memory I seem to recall that part of the building on the right was occupied by ECOC and used for a driver’s room etc.