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!

Sunday 15 July 1984 – The Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited outstationed buses in the Mildenhall area for many years – the exact location varied. At this time the buses were parked on a public parking area at the corner of Chiswick Avenue and Hampstead Avue on Mildenhall Industrial Estate.

Left is VR225 (BVG 225T) is an Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol VR that was new in October 1978 and right is LN575 (PVF 355R), a Leyland National new in December 1976.