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

Tuesday 16 June 2009

Farewell Berlin: People with places to go


Like everywhere else it would seem Berlin is not that special place it once was for me when like London characterful double-deckers reached the suburbs and those enjoyable long routes hadn't been chopped up to finish at unassuming U-Bahn Stations in the middle of nowhere. Indeed in the fascinating days before The Wall came down I used to dread that last day when I had to board the blue MAN airport bus on Service Nine back to Tegal Airport. If one scrambled aboard at The Zoo they were afforded last views of the Kurfirstendam as it plied it's way through the traffic but in reality they never really enjoyed it much as passengers were usually crammed in like sardines. Still this select group of about ten buses in that light blue livery not only were an integral part of my holiday they were real favourites as they looked so attrractive compared to the egg-custard colour of the rest of the fleet and not forgetting some of those often ghastly all-over advertisment buses.

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