#London omnibus

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A snowy commute in London as bus models were changing c. 1997

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We seldom see aerial photos from the Edwardian era (1901-1910)

An unusual view of a London omnibus in Fleet Street, 1907. It looks as though the chap coming up the stairs will have to stand!

The Charles Hawtrey mentioned on the side of the bus is the actor from whom the “Carry On” star (born 1914) took his stage name.

No standing on top! The bus is London General number 271, a De Dion. This was before the company adopted separate fleetnumber sequences starting at 1 with a letter prefix for each vehicle type in July 1908. This bus doesn't seem to have lasted to be renumbered but records are not complete.

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"The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot, page 13

Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Next week: The crowd flows on, and up and down!

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Advertising postcard for E. & J. Pullman’s Leather Works, Westbrook Mills by totallymystified

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ANTS sticker bollard Dalston Lane - the word BUS comes from OMNIBUS meaning “for all, for everyone” -

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By 1942 Britons were used to blackouts and rationing, but fear of invasion continued to cast a gloom until American troops arrived.

Wartime London in 1942 and life goes on as two buses, the number 13 to Golders Green and number 15 to Ladbroke Grove in the foreground, can be seen as passengers both civilian and military jump on and off. Just visible in the background is the base of Nelson's Column adorned with wartime information posters in Trafalgar Square and also Admiralty Arch.

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Interview: Bathsheba Piepe - The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree

Interview: Bathsheba Piepe - The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree 🌳 “Lisa Langseth has created such a rich world in which the character of Daphne struggles to keep going despite the myriad of societal pressures”

The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree will run at the Omnibus Theatre until 22 April Omnibus Theatre and Collide have announce the world première of Lisa Langseth’s The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree. Emily Louizou directs Bathsheba Piepe in this new play – opening on 6 April, with previews from 4 April, and running until 22 April. The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree is the UK writing debut of Swedish…

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Hello! Thank you for the countless times you've recommended my works, I appreciate it 🥹 I wondered if you have any short, fluffy oneshots with domestic husbands kissing. There can be smut, I'm indifferent. I just really want some domestic husbands kissing and being cute and adorable

Hi! We have lots of fics on our #fluff, #domestic fluff, and #kissing tags. Here are some short fics to add to the collections...

Home is just another word for you by Onomatopoetikon (G)

Crowley has never understood the human obsession with the concept of home. For millennia he has heard humans tell stories and sing songs of home – leaving it, finding it, building and returning to it – but he has never understood it. Not until he almost lost it.

The Quiet Moments by My_Dialect (G)

Aziraphale and Crowley spend a quiet afternoon together, enjoying each other's company and reflecting on their long history together.

Drunk (and not so drunk) Shenanigans by Fire_Traveller (T)

Since it's a rainy day, Aziraphale and Crowley find themselves stuck in the bookshop with nothing better to do than to get thoroughly sloshed and ramble on about nothing in particular. They will eventually sober up, though...and Aziraphale might just have another idea what to do to pass the time with each other... Things turn rather suggestive at the end, but there is no on-screen smut here - we'll leave that to the privacy of a certain angel and demon...

Baby, You Can Drive My Car by CopperBeech (T)

Avert the Apocalypse? Check. Move to the South Downs like respectable retirees? Check. Break a six-thousand-year habit of careful distancing? Not so fast. But Aziraphale does have one thing he'd like to check off. “Crowley, are you going to let me try this or not? You said you had nothing on today. We don’t live in London any more, the omnibus only runs three times a day and twice on Sundays, it’s completely unfair to expect you to ferry me everywhere. I just need to learn the basics. Once I’ve mastered them I’ll choose an automobile of my own. I wouldn’t presume to take the Bentley out any old time."

Just an ordinary day at last by 5ftjewishcactus (G)

Books, Food, and Crowley. Aziraphale's most favorite things. And he gets to spend an entire day enjoying all three. Just a normal day in a post-apocalypse world for an angel and his favorite demon.

to us, fortuni by enbymegumi (G)

Aziraphale feels himself start to sweat. He looks down at his rippling, steaming tea. “Crowley and I… we’re not actually married. We’re just friends… I think. Best friends. Partners.” There’s a long silence. It’s been a while since Aziraphale had sat through something so awkward. The last time had been when he’d dragged Crowley to see the film Sausage Party (2016) in theatres, only to find out that it was not, in fact, a deeply moving children’s cartoon about food. “Now, that can’t be true.” Madame Tracy’s voice is quiet. --- or: everything's always been so easy and comfortable between aziraphale and crowley. until aziraphale begins feeling the pressures of human standards and definitions of love... help comes from an unexpected quarter!

- Mod D

[bahoreal]

hey do you guys know about

the history of the bus?

they started as an "omnibus" a horse drawn two stop back and forth along a pre determined route! then they added more stops! they messed with the size of the omnibus and the number of horses until they hit the right size for the route!

(blease note these are intra-city buses, stagecoaches would go outside the city to specific locations and they generally required a reserved seat)

they basically SLAPPED A ROOF AREA to get roof passengers! double deck omnibuses!

then we get MOTOR OMNIBUSES! as the petrol engine is getting better! for context the first motor omnibus ran in 1899 - this is 13 years after the patent for the first petrol engine car (1886), 74 years after the first steam public railway in england (1825) and 36 years after the london underground was opened (1863). by 1911 there were no horse-drawn omnibuses owned by the london general omnibus company!

AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! (please look at the number of BUSES and INDIVIDUAL CARRIAGES [usually hired cabs] and PEDESTRIANS)

a lot of places switched to electric trams in the 1910s, public transport became reliant on the comparatively more efficient light rail or tram systems. the trams gave way to electric buses in london in 1930! they were much less dangerous than trams as people did not have to walk right into traffic to get on em

then as engines got more efficient trolleybuses were switched with petrol engine buses

then in the 1950s more people got cars and they began dominating the streets and creating.. traffic and. traffic laws. and stuff.

thanks for coming to my whistlestop bus lesson hope u have a brilliant day

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A superb etching of a London railway & Underground landmark

The Liverpool Street North London Railway terminus opened in 1874

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George W. Joy (1844-1925) "The Bayswater Omnibus" (1895) OIl on canvas Located in the Museum of London, London, England

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A safe, ordered, respectful society - but Londoners are different now.

This photograph shows The Strand on a summer day, and was taken in July 1937. The woman featured is hailing an STL-type bus, bound for Liverpool Street.

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This is a man who would apologise for jostling your elbow on the omnibus, but redraw a contested border without a moment's qualm.

I'm sorry but this is the funniest anthropomorphizing of London.

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The Last Bus Home postcard by A Ludovici by totallymystified

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Skinheads 1979-1984

Derek Ridgers

Omnibus Press, 161 pages, 20,5x25,5cm, over 100 photos including 32 pages of color, ISBN 9781783051717

euro 120,00

email if you you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

“In early ��79 I was already engaged in what eventually turned out to be a lengthy photographic study of the New Romantics (though back then they were not known as such). I’d been documenting this nascent scene in the Soho nightclub ’Billy’s’ and, one evening, a group of about half-a-dozen skinheads turned up. They saw me taking photographs and one of them, a guy called Wally, asked me if I’d like to take some photos of them too. They seemed pretty friendly and not at all camera shy. I took a few snaps, we got talking and Wally suggested I go with the whole gang on one of their Bank Holiday jaunts to the seaside. That was what led, eventually, to five years of photographing skinheads. In those five years I got to know some of the skinheads quite well and liked many of them.” --Derek Ridgers All the photos were taken between 1979 – 1984 in either London or nearby coastal towns.

Derek Ridgers is a British photographer who has photographed for over thirty years the British subcultures, from punks to "new romantics" going to the fetish scene in London in '79, while he was in the room of Soho "Billy's", was approached by a group of young skinhead who wanted to be photographed. Since then, for the next five years she toured the streets of London and the nearby coastal towns to tell the skinhead movement, born in the sixties in England and then spread throughout the world. Photos of Ridgers tell the "second wave of skinheads", ie those guys that at the end of the seventies had taken the spirit of punk in reaction to the androgynous style of so-called "new romantics", accompanied with a strong sense of belonging to the class and all 'political orientation, which could go from anarchy to positions openly fascist and racist. There was a real orthodoxy in terms of style and clothing.

28/03/24

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George William Joy, The Bayswater Omnibus, 1895, Museum of London, London.