BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Monday 8 January 2007

Switzerland still held it's old magic


It doesn't usually pay to re-visit the past but I'm glad I returned to my old school, Aiglon College in Switzerland twenty-three-years later at the very end of 1988 for a big reunion. I know I should be ashamed to say it but it wasn't the prospect of seeing the school or the now old greying or fat and balding school friends that excited me, it was seeing beautiful Switzerland again and of course to me at least it's fantasic buses. Our two yellow post buses at Chesieres had long gone as the bus service to Ollon five-miles below in the valley had been taken over by the local mountain rail company BVB and extended to Aigle. But BVB bought a to become long lived Saurer RH bus in 1979 which unusually had almost identical bodywork to the ones found in the still yellow post office PTT fleet just across the mountains in Sion. Just as in the old days people both from School and the village were bemused at my interest and bus photography.

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