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- ISBN 9781445685410
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2019
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Brighton is famous for many things, and coaching is certainly one of them.
During the summer months coaches from the four operators based in Brighton – Alpha, Campings, Unique and Southdown – would line up along Madeira Drive adjacent to the seafront with boards along the sides of their coaches advertising excursions to a variety of locations in Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and Surrey. These attracted not only tourists in the area but also local people who would travel once or twice every week. These operators had premises in or around the town with an array of advertising potential exploited; Campings led the way with their Aquarium booking office to the right of the entrance to this famous attraction.
This book relives coaching in Brighton from tours and excursions to private hires and contracts, taking in the heyday of the early 1960s through to the sad decline of traditional coaching in the 1980s.
Simon Stanford has been a bus and coach enthusiast since his days as a child accompanying his father on excursions around Sussex. Nearly forty years later and he is still a part of the industry and enjoys sharing his memories and photographs. He also started collecting model buses and coaches in the mid-eighties when EFE produced their first Harrington coach in Southdown Livery. His collection has grown to around a thousand, most still in their boxes, and he also runs TauntonModelWorld.com.
