They're linked - but why?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 22 May, 2012 9:07 am

Tasa wrote: Well, a bus ran into that Ainsley's a few years ago - I remember because some of my colleagues were on a training course in the building above the shop and heard the crash.No idea if a similar thing happened to the Regent though, but that's the only thing I know about the Ainsley's site. TasaYou get just over 50% of the prize for sussing Ainsleys + link[NOT THE REMNANTS OF THE ABOVE-STREET LEVEL WALKWAY OVER IT]

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 22 May, 2012 9:13 am

book wrote: So they've both been hit by buses at one time and no longer exist. Yes - remember passing the Regent Pub after it's bus 'biff' but cannot find any pictures.Here is a third I remembered after doing this but couldn't find it till after.BlakeyYou didn't did you?

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Tue 22 May, 2012 10:25 am

Now thats what i call a pit stop LOL

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Tue 22 May, 2012 10:39 am

Here's the same place the third bus crashedhttp://g.co/maps/xx7v6What I find amazing is the old iron railings were in good enough order to put back in place. You couldn't tell the bus had gone from them today. They are painted the old green colour they always seemed to use around parks, It wouldn't surprise me if they have the same paint they had when the bus crashed through them. There are a few more photos and info of the bus crash on my underground Leeds thread herehttp://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=2958

billy the buffalo · Post by **billy the buffalo** » Tue 22 May, 2012 11:36 am

the bus in the regent was after 1980 as i used to catch a bus to work and i started the job in 1980. I remeber it well as the double decker was a good way into the front of the building it looked to have been travelling down skinner lane and had gone straight through the lights and into the building.I also was involved with the bus that ended up in the front of ainsleys as it knocked over a piece of equipment that the company i still work for looks after

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 22 May, 2012 1:29 pm

Here's the picture of the bus in the Regent pub. Apologies for the quality its was taken on my mobile phone rather late into the night.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 22 May, 2012 1:31 pm

If you want an approx date the bus is advertising the "Best of Blondie" LP released on October 31st 1981. So likely to be November 81.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Tue 22 May, 2012 1:58 pm

Cardiarms wrote: Here's the picture of the bus in the Regent pub. Apologies for the quality its was taken on my mobile phone rather late into the night. I've heard of people being desperate to get a drink but really !!!!

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Tue 22 May, 2012 3:56 pm

Cardiarms wrote: Here's the picture of the bus in the Regent pub. Apologies for the quality its was taken on my mobile phone rather late into the night. I was just going to make a fool of myself once again. I thought "Mobile phones didn't have cameras in 1981", but then the penny dropped that it's a pic of a pic