The bus that went to the cinema, or almost, as can be seen from the picture (Electric Palace in the Landgate is the building just beyond the bus with the coloured electric light bulbs in the shape of an arch). It was an East Kent converted charabanc on the Camber Rye Harbour service.
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East Kent Bus Club appears here as part of the magazine’s continuing record of local organisations, community effort and the people who kept things moving. Among the pieces gathered here are “The Bus Went to the Cinema”, “Happy Harold”, and “The Bus that Went to the Cinema”, each adding its own detail to the story. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.
Happy Harold
A brief history of an unique vehicle by Ion Castro of the Hastings Trolleybus Restoration Group. On the first of April 1928 Hastings was in the forefront of transport technology, the ageing fleet of tramcars on their worn out track was being replaced with trolleybuses; these electrically powered vehicles were freed from the constraint of … Continue reading Happy Harold
The Bus that Went to the Cinema
Rye Electric Palace Gets an Unwanted Visitor The bus that went to the cinema, or almost, as can be seen from the picture (the Electric Palace in the Landgate is the building just beyond the bus with the coloured electric light bulbs in the shape of an arch) was an East Kent converted charabanc on the Camber Rye Harbour … Continue reading The Bus that Went to the Cinema