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 palace777  belfast 17 Jan 18 10.03am |
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Originally posted by alaneagle1
Was the Red Rover the ticket you purchased and then could go on any bus around London.? You could take a friend off peak and at the weekend for free!
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YT  Oxford 17 Jan 18 1.52pm |
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A group of us at Junior School (as it was known then) hatched a plan to buy Red Bus Rovers the next day (Saturday) an spend all day travelling all over London. I’ve no idea why, but it seemed like a great idea at the time. We agreed to meet at ‘Trev’s’ house at 8:30am. I duly turned up, but Trev’s mum answered the door and said he wasn’t allowed to come because he hadn’t tidied his room. Furthermore she wouldn’t let me hang around to wait for the others to tum up, but as I recall it, none of them did in any case. Does this qualify as the least interesting travel story ever?
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pefwin  Where you have to have an English ... 17 Jan 18 2.10pm |
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Originally posted by It's only a game
We had some fun days out back then and only cost a couple of bob. Visits to the Post Office Tower and the Monument I recall. Edited by It's only a game (17 Jan 2018 9.48am) and the Golden Rover to go to the countryside.
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| mezzer Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 17 Jan 18 2.14pm |
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Originally posted by YT
A group of us at Junior School (as it was known then) hatched a plan to buy Red Bus Rovers the next day (Saturday) an spend all day travelling all over London. I’ve no idea why, but it seemed like a great idea at the time. We agreed to meet at ‘Trev’s’ house at 8:30am. I duly turned up, but Trev’s mum answered the door and said he wasn’t allowed to come because he hadn’t tidied his room. Furthermore she wouldn’t let me hang around to wait for the others to tum up, but as I recall it, none of them did in any case. Does this qualify as the least interesting travel story ever? It's not exactly Michael Palin, YT. Shortest Trevelogue in history.
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| YT Oxford 17 Jan 18 8.08pm |
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Boom boom!
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| Direwolf Lincoln 17 Jan 18 8.27pm |
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Originally posted by YT
A group of us at Junior School (as it was known then) hatched a plan to buy Red Bus Rovers the next day (Saturday) an spend all day travelling all over London. I’ve no idea why, but it seemed like a great idea at the time. We agreed to meet at ‘Trev’s’ house at 8:30am. I duly turned up, but Trev’s mum answered the door and said he wasn’t allowed to come because he hadn’t tidied his room. Furthermore she wouldn’t let me hang around to wait for the others to tum up, but as I recall it, none of them did in any case. Does this qualify as the least interesting travel story ever? I think it is a heartwarming story of youth and thwarted dreams. Did Trev ever tidy his room?
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| martin2412 Living The Dream 17 Jan 18 8.48pm |
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I remember a Millwall fan I used to work with in the early 80's always used to say that Palace weren't really a London team because green buses ran around our area. I think they were called the Green Line, or something like that.
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 Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 17 Jan 18 9.12pm |
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I'd rather have Sarah Palin.
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Cannonball  High in the Ozarks. 17 Jan 18 9.36pm |
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Originally posted by YT
Me again! A good few years ago, there was a photoshoot in a (a-hem) 'gentlemen's lifestyle magazine' of the actress who played 'Olive' in 'On the Buses'. Even though her character was deliberately unattractive, I believe that out of character, the actress had a certain charm. Anyway, there was a photo of her on the cover of the magazine, with the caption: "Plenty of room on top!" It's Olive from On the Buses! The double-entendre used was another cry of the Routemaster conductor or conductress. She wasn't at all a bad looking bird out of character.
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Attachment: | ex hibitionist Hastings 18 Jan 18 12.18pm |
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Originally posted by martin2412
I remember a Millwall fan I used to work with in the early 80's always used to say that Palace weren't really a London team because green buses ran around our area. I think they were called the Green Line, or something like that. Green line buses used to run through Streatham back then, you're Millwall fan merely meant we didn't come from a ghetto near the Thames. He'd probably think New Addington was more London because the locals there are the descendants of slum clearance, it used to be more Charlton there than
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| YT Oxford 20 Jan 18 9.45am |
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Originally posted by Direwolf
I think it is a heartwarming story of youth and thwarted dreams. Did Trev ever tidy his room? Funny you should ask that! There was another untidy room episode, although I can’t place it chronologically with the Red Bus Rover incident. At Junior School, we ran our own Subbuteo league - weekly fixtures, home and away at each other’s houses. Saturday came round, and it was my turn (QPR*) to visit Trev (Fulham). Trev answered the door, and sadly told me that he couldn’t play the match because his Mum had hoovered up his Subbuteo team. This was in a fit of anger, prompted by her going into his room, finding it not to have been tidied, and then also accidentally treading on and breaking some of his players! I couldn’t believe it, but at school on the Monday we had a meeting of all the members of the league, which agreed to award me two points for a win (these were the days before three points came in) and a goal difference of 3-0, so I ended up quite pleased. *QPR? I know, right, but this was in the days before I discovered The Glaziers, and I had been given a QPR Subbuteo team (and a ball - but no other accessories at that point) for Christmas. For a while after that, I played matches using goalposts that I made out of coat hangers and net curtain material, on a pitch marked out with lolly sticks. Try telling THAT to kids today!!
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