ROTARACT Club members were helped by the rain when they held a charity car wash in 1987. “It helped rinse the cars off, and made the roads dirtier so people needed their cars cleaned,” said club president David Cox. They raised £85 for leukaemia research.
In the next picture, taken the same year, pensioners were celebrating being able to travel home by bus, without having a mile-long walk uphill. Because of a bureaucratic mix-up registering the route during bus deregulation, the No 420 service wasn’t allowed to stop at West Street, in the town centre, to take them to their homes around Walterbush Road. But officials stepped in to sort out the problem.
The last picture shows a No 44 bus, also in West Street, in a different era – about 1950.
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