I GREW up on the Haydock/Pewfall side of St Helens, at 546 Liverpool Road.
Imagine my surprise recently to discover a Red Leyland double decker bus with destination signs East Lancs Road and Fingerpost on the front and a #30 sign on the back.
It was parked in a Storage Yard barely 200 yards from my home, which is about 6,000 miles from where it once operated.
I looked out on the East Lancs Road from my backyard and as a young boy, played on its slopes near Pewfall.
I don’t recall a bus service to an “East Lancs Road”’.
I lived and worked just around the corner from the Fingerpost. Can anyone cast light on this puzzle?
The bus must have found a late-life career as a tourist bus in Victoria, BC.
Joseph Rigby, Saanichton, BC, CANADA
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