Conway Street bus depot

Left: A jogger passes the office block. The Company name is proudly displayed above.

portion of the name becomes little more than a memory, all in the name of nationalisation !

  Is that the the time ? Time to catch the next Number 7 into the centre of Brighton...........

be seen, a conductor coming out of the stores, the other, in waistcoat, is the shift supervisor. On view is a BH&D cream-livery open-topper and one of the Southdown Queen Mary PD3s recently transferred in to replace the Bristol KSWs. A conductor can be seen ushering his bus forward whilst a woman and her two children watch proceedings.

  We now return to Conway Street in an easterly direction. Obviously the guttering and down-pipe are in need of repair judging by the moss and the dis-colouration of the brickwork to the corner of the eastern garage. As we look up we can see that the corporate image of the N.B.C. has made its mark. Just as with the all-white coaches and the green and white colours adopted for the buses, the depot wall now carries the same-style fleetname and double-N logo. It won`t be too many months before the BH&D

The purpose of the diorama

A collection of model buses can grow to an extent that a cabinet or shelf is no longer able to accomodate them and the time comes to find a new `home` for the prized collection. The choices were to either buy or build a display caseor else put the models into context in the form of a diorama. To justify having a large number of model buses in one diorama whilst maintaining a realistic impression would require building either a bus station or bus depot setting. It was the latter setting in representational as opposed to prototypical form that was selected.

left:  The eastern garage viewed from the northern side. A milk-float passes the garage frontage. Inside a cream open-top Lodekka and a South-down Leyland PD3 Queen Mary are ready for daily duties. The latter is one of several such buses recently transferred to the BH&D division to replace older Bristol KSWs.

right: Still in BH&D-livery, an FS-type Bristol Lodekka, having just left the eastern garage, in Goldstone Street, passes the office block at the junction with Conway Street.