Update – November 2025
I am pleased to report that this site now contains all of the material saved from the initial version of OBP, as created and maintained by Peter from 2009. I have also now checked the links between the pages within OBP, and these should all now link to the appropriate page within this site, and not to the temporary initial copy of the original OBP. Needless to say, if you do find any links that do take you to the older or intermediate versions of OBP, please let me know via the contact form. Thanks in advance for your help!
New content
August 2025 – I am very pleased to report that Geoff Pullin has provided two new articles, recounting his experiences as an engineer at Ribble and United Counties. Thank you, Geoff.
The Old Bus Photos website – or OBP as it came to be known – first appeared in 2009 and was a very active and popular site for over 10 years, covering bus, tram and trolleybus photos from the sixties and before with a great deal of informed comment on the photos and other related topics.
However at the end of October 2022, updates to the site stopped and emails to the owner, Peter, went unanswered. The site then remained frozen until May 2024 when the domain name registration expired and the OBP web site became no longer available.
The “Wayback Machine”, maintained by archive.org, that systematically scans and preserves websites for posterity, does have a number of archives of the site – the latest one can be viewed here although it is only partial.
Peter had also created a sister site to OBP, “Old Bus Tickets” – but development of this site was paused in 2018. There are copies of “OBT” on the “Wayback Machine” – for example, here – but please note that other copies, dated 2019, show a completely different site that had adopted the same URL.
We thank Peter for his work in creating and maintaining OBP over many years. I have created a copy of the site ( obp.nwframpton.com ) containing as much of the original content as I could retrieve, but this is a “snapshot”, and the full functionality of the original site is not available.
This new site provides the facility for new content and discussions, and does now contain all of the content that I have been able to retrieve from the original site. There are a few “missing” items, which are noted on the relevant pages, and these will be added if the appropriate source material can be found.
Nigel Frampton (November 2025)
Latest posts:-
- Double Deck Tours
- The Venture Transport (Newcastle) Company Ltd
- Is it 1936/37 or 1949
- Derby Trolleybus Destination Blind
- Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Appendix Three
Latest comments:-
Going back to Roger’s comment in 2022, I think all Bristol Omnibus 8ft wide buses did have white steering wheels…
I believe that at the time service 24 was operated by Weston depot. The buses were then transferred to Marlborough…
I found the comments and links to other photos regarding the Hardcastle Crags service of great interest. Although quite familiar…
A superb article taking me back to my early days as a bus enthusiast. The descriptions of the vehicles themselves…
I’m wrong – I’ve just looked a t photos of FLFs and they have black steering wheels – apologies!