On 29/01/2016 17:03, tim..... wrote:

"Offramp" wrote in message
...
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 :-(










Some Sundays it ran to Dorking.

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus