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