Transport Museum Wythall 27 August 2018 pt. 2

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TimBrown
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Transport Museum Wythall 27 August 2018 pt. 2

Post by TimBrown » 10:18 Wednesday 29th August 2018

This batch of photographs is of buses which operated in the Birmingham, Walsall and West Midlands County areas. Thanks again to all the volunteers at Wythall for organising another excellent event.
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Re: Transport Museum Wythall 27 August 2018 pt. 2

Post by horsencart » 17:49 Friday 31st August 2018

Greetings

The first Open Day how different it was then https://www.flickr.com/photos/dofartsha ... 633851840/

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Re: Transport Museum Wythall 27 August 2018 pt. 2

Post by 943KHA » 19:30 Friday 31st August 2018

As one of those who was there virtually from day One and going through all of those photographs I am amazed at how much was achieved in those early days. The very second hand caravan that served as our mess room for those first years (and occasional overnight dosshouse) was very much a health and safety nightmare, how any of us avoided food poisoning is amazing. 5923 served as our first cafe when we opened to the public and was later broken up; it had a very poor condition body when bought straight out of service and wobbled nicely all the way back to Wythall. Nice to see pictures of my 'turd' brown Marina EBF398T, it certainly didn't survive into preservation.

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Re: Transport Museum Wythall 27 August 2018 pt. 2

Post by horsencart » 21:19 Friday 31st August 2018

A view of the very early days, taken from the church the caravan is in the photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/dofartsha ... 633851840/

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Re: Transport Museum Wythall 27 August 2018 pt. 2

Post by AdamH » 08:29 Saturday 1st September 2018

Very interesting collection of photographs. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Transport Museum Wythall 27 August 2018 pt. 2

Post by TimBrown » 13:56 Saturday 1st September 2018

horsencart wrote:
17:49 Friday 31st August 2018
Greetings

The first Open Day how different it was then https://www.flickr.com/photos/dofartsha ... 633851840/
Amazing pictures, I reckon that the general public and many enthusiasts tend to look at the exhibition halls, cafe and all the hard standing within the museum site as being there from the beginning. It came as a shock to me that the founder members started with a wilderness and turned it into the well organised Museum with the very popular event days we now appreciate. Perhaps the history of BaMMOT and all the work involved in creating the site is worthy of a prominent display in the main hall?

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