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Buses

There never was any at first

Edith Stammers remembers

The factory bus

Brian Doubtfire

More trusting times

Sylvia Barnard (née Cole)

In its early years St. Helier was not well served by buses but now it has a good service.

Well, we only had one bus along the main road, Green Wrythe Lane there - that used to be the 151, if I remember correctly, and that used to take you just from Culvers Avenue to Morden and it would stop there. You didn't have a bus going up Thornton Road, or you'd have to walk down to the green or up Thornton Road to the top to get the 157. But now going from A to B, wherever you want to go, is very good round here. There's several different buses you can get on . You can go anywhere.Can't complain about that at all. (Pauline)

This page was added by Cheryl Bailey on 22/08/2010.

Comments about this page

My dad used to be a bus driver, and drove the 151 bus out of Sutton station. As kids we sometimes rode the bus back to the station at the end of the shift.

By Brian Winfield
On 01/12/2011

I seem to remember in the early seventies, there used to be a bus service, running from Culvers Avenue through to Raynes Park, It was a single deck bus called the M1

By Mick Lee
On 31/01/2012

My father too was a bus driver on the 80,88 and 164 's from the thirties to the late 50's. Returning one day from a shift, his face was very red. Driving apparently in the 'middle of nowhere', he ran from his cab into a field where a man was in flames and saved the man. No mobile phones for rapid communication in those days.You were on your own and did what you had to do, not expecting or wishing for praise or favour.

By Helen Harlow
On 11/02/2012