All posts in the topic New names for Brighton and Hove Buses revealed (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Adam Pride at Jun 18 09:29 UTC
I just pulled this from the Argus/ What is it about Brighton and Hove that we can identify over 200 significant people with associations to this town .... er, city .... and the list of names just keeps growing? Full article at: http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4439116.New_names_of_Brighton_and_Hove_buses_revealed/ Tony C This is the list of names pulled from the wikipedia. So, what's the story behind number 12 "Bruce"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brighton_and_Hove_buses_named_after_famous_people 1 Lord Attenborough (no longer in service) 2 Dora Bryan (no longer in service) 3 Norman Cook (no longer in service) 4 Chris Eubank (no longer in service) 6 Adam Faith (no longer in service) (now on 649) 8 Sally Gunnell (no longer in service) 11 Derek Jameson (no longer in service) 12 Bruce (no longer in service) 13 Alan Weeks (no longer in service) (now on 866) 14 Derek Jameson (no longer in service) 15 Des Lynam (no longer in service) 16 Annie Nightingale (no longer in service) 17 Leo Sayer (no longer in service) 18 Dusty Springfield (no longer in service) (now on 865) 19 The Who (no longer in service) 20 Sir Norman Wisdom (no longer in service) 51 Ron Cunningham (Shuttle 50) 52 Kenneth Fines (Shuttle 50) 53 Helena Normanton (Shuttle 50) 54 John Peckham (Shuttle 50) 55 Lis Solkhon (Shuttle 50) 56 Maurice Tate (Shuttle 50) 57 Ralph Vaughan Williams (Shuttle 50) 601 William Attree 602 Enid Bagnold 603 Aubrey Beardsley 604 Sir Edward Burne-Jones 605 Ellen Nye Chart 606 Tommy Farr 607 George Hole 608 Albert Ketèlbey 609 Gideon Mantell 610 Alan Melville 611 Dr Clifford Musgrave 612 Ray Noble 613 John Saxby 614 Sir Charles Aubrey Smith 615 Charlie Webb 616 Allen West 617 Douglas Reeve 618 Danny Sheldon 619 Margaret Bondfield 620 Oliver Bulleid 621 Ivy Compton-Burnett 622 C B Cochran 623 Tommy Cook 624 Eric Courtney-King 625 William Friese-Greene 626 Lord Fulton of Falmer 627 Patricia Harding 628 Dennis Hobden 629 George Humphrey 630 Harry Leader 631 Bobby Lee 632 Ida Lupino 633 Henry Solomon 634 Dorothy Stringer 635 Angela Thirkell 636 Grace Eyre Woodhead 637 Kenneth Bredon 638 Sir Anton Dolin 639 Raymond Francis 640 Graham Greene 641 John Jackson 642 Howard Johnson 643 Victoria Lidiard 644 K S Ranjitsinhji 645 Paul Stonor 646 Herbert Wilcox 647 Ernest Frederick Beal 648 Jimmy Edwards 649 Adam Faith 650 Prince Petr Kropotkin 651 John Langridge 652 Sir William Nicholson 653 James Osborne 654 Jack Solomons 655 Elizabeth Allan 656 Dame Henrietta Barnett 657 Wynne Baxter 658 Clementina Black 659 Helen Boyle 660 Sir Lindsay Bryson 661 Millicent Fawcett 662 Frank Bridge 663 Eric Gill 664 John Nelson Goulty 665 Jack Jenkins 666 Eleanor Marx 667 Dame Clara Butt 668 Bob Copper 669 Sir Edward Sassoon 670 Dr Herzl Sless 671 Vanessa Bell 672 Havergal Brian 673 Isambard Kingdom Brunel 674 John Constable 675 King Edward VII 676 Ray Evison 677 Elisabeth Howard 678 Jack Howe 679 Dr William King 680 George Larner 681 Sir George Lewis 682 Samuel Lewis 683 Terence Morgan 684 Chris Moyes 685 Donald Peers 686 Rev Frederick Robertson 687 Dr William Stone 688 Elsie & Doris Waters 763 Nicola & Declan (no longer in service) 768 Adam Trimingham 771 Pietro Addis (no longer in service) 773 Southern FM's Moody (no longer in service) 774 Bob Wilson (no longer in service) 775 Tina Goldberg-Lowe (no longer in service) 781 Bridges Residential Ltd (now converted to open-top for city sightseeing, later renamed "Anne of Cleves") 801 King Charles II 802 Captain Nicholas Tettersell 803 Prince Regent 804 Dr Richard Russell 805 Maria Fitzherbert 806 Martha Gunn 807 Phoebe Hessel 808 Rudyard Kipling (no longer in service) (now on 869) 808 Les Hamilton 809 Sir Charles Barry 810 Magnus Volk 811 John Nash 812 Thomas Kemp 813 Sir Harry Preston 814 Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford 815 Sir Samuel Brown 816 Sir Herbert Carden 817 Lord Olivier 818 Lord Cohen 819 Max Miller 819 Micky Adams + Bobby Zamora (no longer in service) 820 Dame Flora Robson (not on display during December 2005) 820 Santa Claus (no longer in service) (December 2005 only) 820 The Albion Team 2001/2 (no longer in service) 821 Queen Adelaide 822 William Ainsworth 823 Mike Bamber 824 Charles Busby 825 Sir Winston Churchill 826 Harry Cowley 827 Stanley Deason 828 Charles Dickens 829 C B Fry 830 Sir Jack Hobbs 831 Sir John Howard, engineer 832 David Land 833 Andrew Melville 834 Herbert Menges 835 Cecil Pashley 836 Sir Arthur Pearson 837 Margaret Powell 838 William Stroudley 839 Stanley Theobald 839 Frank Butterworth (no longer in service) 840 Amon Wilds 840 Ian Caldwell (no longer in service) 841 Thomas Attree 842 Eugenius Birch 843 Sir John Cordy Burrows 844 Caroline of Brunswick 845 Queen Charlotte 846 Captain Frederick Collins 847 Earl of Egremont 848 Sir George Everest 849 Edwin Fownes 850 Baron Goldsmid 851 The Lawrence Sisters 852 Trevor Mann 853 William Marsh 854 David Mocatta 855 Sake Dean Mahomed 856 Dame Anna Neagle 857 Sir Richard Sackville 858 Malcolm Farley (no longer in service) 858 George Albert Smith 859 Thomas Tilling 860 Jack Tinker 861 John Vallance 862 James Williamson 863 John Wisden 864 King William IV 865 Queen Elizabeth II (no longer in service) 865 Bride & Groom (no longer in service) 865 Dusty Springfield 866 Prince Philip (no longer in service) 866 Bride & Groom (no longer in service) 866 Alan Weeks 867 Arthur H Cox 868 Syd Dean 869 Les Hamilton (no longer in service) (now on 808) 869 Rudyard Kipling 870 Gilbert Harding 871 Sir Edward Marshall-Hall 872 Captain Henry Hill 873 Sir Rowland Hill 874 Edward Lowther 875 John Rastrick 876 Arthur Wagner 881 John Nicks & Jennifer Nicks 882 Kitty O'Shea 883 Phyllis Pearsall 884 David Sheppard 887 Virginia Woolf 901 Charles Burt Brill 902 Fanny Burney 903 Douglas Byng 904 Sir John Clements 905 Rev Richard William Enraght 906 James Gray 907 Patrick Hamilton 908 Thomas Harrington 909 Trevor Kaye 910 Thomas Lainson 911 William Lillywhite 912 Mick Mannock 913 Pete McCarthy 914 Daisy Noakes 915 Dr William Parker 916 Ben Sherman 917 Sir Hans Singer 918 Rex Whistler
Bruce was a police dog who bit a criminal's ear and so was 'put down' to huge
public outcry.
Is 'Brighton & Hove Bus Names' still in print ? Thisgives details on the names
up to about 2004
Best Regards
Adam Pride
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