"Offramp" wrote in message
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I was watching an episode of Hancock's Half Hour today. What a great
series that was! Hancock was so much better when he got rid of everyone
excpet Sid James.

In this episode, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cau5MRu804Y, Sid falls in
love with a conductress on the 93 bus. Hancock lives at East Cheam and the
bus terminates at Epsom Station. It is still running on a similar route.

The 93 ran from Putney Bridge to Epsom via North Cheam all the time whilst I
was a kid, It seems to have been split some time in the 90s into
overlapping: 93 Putney to N Cheam (where 1 out of 2 of the previous 93s
would have turned anyway) and 293 Morden to Epsom, both running down the
main road (A24 IIRC). More recently, the 293 has started to use some back
streets to Morden via Lower Morden using some roads that had never before
seen a bus route.

It was a notoriously bad timekeeper [1], both Putney High Street and
Wimbledon Broadway could get very snarled up causing serious delays.

There is, of course, no such place that the locals would refer to as "East
Cheam."

tim

[1] as were all the bus routes of my childhood :-(