One night many years ago probably around the late 70's, one of our drivers pulled up outside the depot in his car ready to start a late back shift. He picked up all his gear and proceeded to the rear of the depot to get his vehicle.

Our depot is a small one so at night there is no one around, it is also dark at the rear of the depot and a handy place for courting if you don’t want to be caught.

He jumped into his double deck bus and stared to drive out the depot, as he drove round the corner he picked up speed, then all of a sudden he heard voices, it was one of his co workers who had just finished his shift 30 mins ago and had went up the top rear of the double deck with his girlfriend. The driver slammed the brakes on and ran upstairs to find his co workers with a woman both half naked...

It was a funny event and everyone had a laugh about it,, after this happened there was a joke notice put up in the depot, " would any driver using a bus out the back of the depot for courting purposes please ensure a sign is placed on the bus window to alert any driver who requires the vehicle"..

As you can guess this never happened again...

Here we see Dan who sent the story above. He is dressed in old bus uniform similar to those worn in On The Buses. To see Dan’s buses web site and a whole lot more visit

http://www.danmclean.co.uk/

My husband has story for thr fan club. He was working a minibus turn in Morecambe route number 5 which goes round Draycombe Court in Heysham. Its a narrow road only able to be negociated in one direction even though in theory its open for two way traffic. This day all the minibuses were off the road so he was allocated a Bristol VR double decker. He got as far as St. Johns Church and found a funeral in progress and the hearse blocking the road. A minibus he could have got past easily but no chance with a double decker. So he rang the controlloer and asked what to do. He was ordered to disrupt the funeral and shout in a big loud voice your blocking me in. However he knew the Vicar personally so he went in and unable to show disrespect he took part and when it was over came out. By that time the road was gridlocked in both directions solid so solid even Police couldn`t get through. It took about two hours to clear road and he was well late but Manager couldn`t discipline him as he would have had to discipline the Inspector as well so nothing more was said.

Thanks ANNE.


I wrote a fan letter to Reg Varney recently and he sent me a lovely colour photo dedicated to Anne. I wrote to Stephen Lewis and after a delay of 6 months he sent me a black and white photo of him in the blakey role to Anne. is Bob grant still alive your biography is interesting but it ends in 1977. i would like to write to him. My husband is a bus driver in Morecambe known as the bus Driver with the Degree. Some of what happened he says is true to life Inspectors do look like Blakey.

Thanks for the email Anne, must say I have heard there are still a few Blakeys around working ON THE BUSES, aaaaarghhhhh

Can you please make me a member of On the Buses also can i ask you a question regarding 'on the buses' merchendise. Have they or do you know if they plan to release the 3 'on the buses' spin-off movies on DVD and are they planning to release more series'son DVD as well Thanks for your help Stephen Cooper

The films may be released on DVD at a later date, it partly depends on how the sale of the current DVD's for ON THE BUSES goes

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Hello, I have seen the dvd's available for On The Buses (Series 1 and Series 2), and wanted to know (because I am new to On
The Buses) could you tell me if they are black and white episodes, or are any of the episodes in color on the dvd? I look
forward to hearing from you. Thank you, Jeff Bagshaw
Hello Jeff, Yes the first 2 series of ON THE BUSES were in black and white, this was due to some sort of industrial action
that was going on at the time, orther programmes were also made in Black and White during the dispute.
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Imagine my surpise when I got home from my holiday job today to find that, whilst at a Variety Club event at Sandown Park, my parents had met up with Anna Karen and Terry Duggan, who were dining on the next table! Apparently they were both really charming, and were kind enough to give their autographs - these were left as a surprise for me in my bedroom!!
Such a wonderful co-incidence - lucky old parents, eh?! I'm certainly envious. www.davidsheppardonline.co.uk