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All aboard the South Durham buses for a journey to Eden - and Spennymoor
['Chris Lloyd']
The Northern Echo | News
An 1876 tea token from the Bishop Auckland branch of the London & Newcastle Tea Company which is currently selling for £18.28 on eBayTHE London & Newcastle Tea Company was something of a North East institution.
The Eden logoIAN GRAY pointed out that the Eden bus in Spennymoor High Street was a Leyland Tiger, “which was new in 1948, to Ripponden & District”.
Alan Orchard's Eden bus - but where was this picture taken?
ALAN ORCHARD also identified the Leyland Tiger and pointed out that the other Eden bus pictured in Memories 792 was Eden’s first Leyland Tiger Cub.
“The Eden chose the King James I Grammar School as its Bishop Auckland terminus, so its service became heavily used by pupils,” he says.