29/07/08 @ 08:06:15 pm, Categories: News from Dinnages, 549 words  

Just attended one of our bigger Soutrhern Bus Running Days at Worthing Seafront last Sunday (27th July), with a very warm & sweltering long day. This started at an alarm call at 6am, the thrusting the younger ones out the door so we could get on site reasonably early enough not to be harrassed too much while we geting our pitch sorted. The less people about the better at this time of the morning with about six others already setting up on site. By the time we were all ready to go, there must have been 23 stalls, 21 booked and a few additions that came along.

There were reported 41 buses booked, but did not quite seem as busy with visiting buses as in previous years more so we expect due to the increasing fuel cost for individual owners or groups, as the bus companies have the pockets to cover this & like publicity. As for our local company to us, B&H had three vehicles, with others in attendance, some available for the run outs as per the programme, which almost sold out this year.

As for being our most local event, this is our best event and long may it continue, being we have lost a number over recent years, pity as we found Littlehampton Bus Gathering a very worthy event & fared even better in our sales, but we think thats because of the tightness of the site, and trips were shorter bringing everyone back more often.

We all miss Southsea, and it was great to see a return of Netley a while back in June this year, but it helps that end of the Southdown area, along with the smaller event at Gosport, neither will bring back the Southsea event.

Onwards, and we have just updated our blog on one of the auction sites we have been on since 2001, although with some changes against the sellers opinions, we have mentioned we will have another bash to see what we may find buyers for some of our ‘used’ photographs now that after December 2007 we had bought a new collection of 21,000 that brought us back up again to 70,000 and thats nothing to do with the library of images we have 22,000 negatives or slides to produce prints from.

Another presentation given to the Kent & East Sussex Railway Group at Pevensey in mid July on the ‘Tribute to Jack Turley’ brought many visitors to comment on his vast collection of early images from 1937 through the war and into the seventies, which were not just buses, but trams, trolleybuses, steam railway in the South, some shipping and aircraft at the originbal Croydon & Gatwick Airports.

Look forward to queries from anyone over what we might have to supply enthusiasts and historians with views, with more magazines now asking for prints to compliment articles. When some of these have been published we will mention them here. Occasionly some books use our views and we get a little upset at this if they have not talked to us fiorst as this denys the original photographer his right to have his credit announced in print in appreciation for his efforts often at a time when cameras were less affordable as was the film and cost of developing.

Regards
Gordon & the family team

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