Caffs & Greasy spoons

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Mon 18 Feb, 2008 12:56 am

LS1 wrote: Almost an institution the Red Bus Cafe.I remember a mate of mine telling me the bus broke down there and was just left, and eventually opened up as a cafe. Any ideas if this is true as it seems a bit far fetched! I'd love to find out a bit more about it myself Lee.. I hope someone can fill in some gen about it

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 18 Feb, 2008 12:58 am

Phill_d wrote: LS1 wrote: Almost an institution the Red Bus Cafe.I remember a mate of mine telling me the bus broke down there and was just left, and eventually opened up as a cafe. Any ideas if this is true as it seems a bit far fetched! I'd love to find out a bit more about it myself Lee.. I hope someone can fill in some gen about it Hope so... Phill, you free 1st week in March? gf is going away so a good time for me. If so drop me an e-mail...

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Mon 18 Feb, 2008 1:21 am

Yeah that's possible mate.. I'll mail you later.

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Mon 18 Feb, 2008 5:48 pm

Sorry TrojanI omitted a piece from Don Tate's piece on Youngman's.It WAS up New Briggate,as you say. Sorry! Not seen it inthe VA complex, have you?Ref The Westfield fisheries Yeadon. We used to go there for years but it changed hands in 2006 I think and got to be just another Greasy Spoon selling fish and chips! (I use the term lightly!)The staff were very offhand and there was an item in the EP about the new(female) boss being taken to an industrial tribunalfor bullying a female member of staff! We havent been there since early last year so if you have been recently and give it the okwe'll be happy to renew our acquaintance with it!The restaurand was first class two years ago. all Olde worldeand jacobean furniture etc.Arry

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 19 Feb, 2008 12:11 am

arry awk wrote: Sorry TrojanI omitted a piece from Don Tate's piece on Youngman's.It WAS up New Briggate,as you say. Sorry! Not seen it inthe VA complex, have you?Ref The Westfield fisheries Yeadon. We used to go there for years but it changed hands in 2006 I think and got to be just another Greasy Spoon selling fish and chips! (I use the term lightly!)The staff were very offhand and there was an item in the EP about the new(female) boss being taken to an industrial tribunalfor bullying a female member of staff! We havent been there since early last year so if you have been recently and give it the okwe'll be happy to renew our acquaintance with it!The restaurand was first class two years ago. all Olde worldeand jacobean furniture etc.Arry Well you may be right. We started going after Radio Leeds sang its praises perhaps in early 2006.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Tue 19 Feb, 2008 12:25 am

LS1 wrote: Almost an institution the Red Bus Cafe.I remember a mate of mine telling me the bus broke down there and was just left, and eventually opened up as a cafe. Any ideas if this is true as it seems a bit far fetched! I'm just a bit puzzled by this.. I've found out about the buses origins, delivery & withdrawal dates.. It was still in service until the early 1980's.. I could swear this cafe was there in the 1970's.. Can anyone else remember it been there then?? That would mean there was a previous bus replaced by this one perhaps?? This is the info i've got for the bus anyway.The Red bus cafe formerly a Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1, which originally carried 75 seats, rather more than it has now. Was delivered new to Newcastle upon Tyne as No607 in November 1968. The bus was withdrawn from Tyne and Wear PTE in 1980/81. Along with sister buses 606 (SVK606G) and 615 (SVK615G), it was sold to independent bus operator Hunter’s of Seaton Deleval. Hunter's didn't keep it very long, selling it to Calvary Coaches Calvary, Nambour in 1982. The bus was possibly disposed of by Calvary direct to the café owners, or it came via the scrap yards some time in the mid 1980s?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Tue 19 Feb, 2008 11:04 am

If you are imagining it I am too Phill. I certainly remember a bus, though I think it was green, parked up there well before I became a teenager in 77

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Tue 19 Feb, 2008 1:10 pm

tyke bhoy wrote: If you are imagining it I am too Phill. I certainly remember a bus, though I think it was green, parked up there well before I became a teenager in 77 Ok thanks for that mate.. without giving my age away i certainly remember it been there as a lad. There must have been an earlier bus as the original cafe before been replaced by this one then?? I seem to think it was an old back loader as well. The mystery deepens No doubt the power of the internet will shed new light on it sooner rather than later. cheers

patter · Post by **patter** » Tue 19 Feb, 2008 10:53 pm

I vaguely remember it being blue for a while in the 80s.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Wed 20 Feb, 2008 9:28 pm

There has definately been a bus there for a lot longer than going back to the mid 80's.The thoughts about the bus cafe being a rear loader at one time ring a bell too.It was always a sign we were nearly home (boo!) on trips to Brid or Scabby as kids back in the 70's.Does anyone know if the single decker bus cafe is still open in the layby on the A58 just before Wetherby, or has that gone too?