You are listening to a Christmas Song written and performed by Dave O'Brien The Bus is running late due to getting stuck in snow but enjoy the song as more snow is set to return www.lewesbusrally.org/ Bournemouth Aviation Museum Vintage Transport Day Sunday 7th March 2010. Visiting Buses on display with Buses running Free Rides all day. Just £4 this includes full access of the Museum and our Aircraft Collection. If you would like to bring a Bus this is free please email stevetydeman@yahoo.co.uk for a form. Sunday 25th April 2010. The 500 Group TEESIDE VINTAGE BUS RUNNING DAY  Based at The Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough from 11.a.m.There will be five routes to Stockton on Tees and a Vintage Coach Tour into North Yorkshire.There will be up to eighteen preserved buses on timetabled services.  Stalls etc.                    for details 01642 782796 or details-500group@ntlworld.com	Title: On The Buses: The Complete Story Author: Craig Walker Foreword by: Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney Craig Author of The Book Click picture to order your copy Craig will be doing official book signings of his book On The Buses: The Complete Story on the following dates and venues:- Saturday the 20th of March 2010 at Waterstone's in Huddersfield, 41-43 New Street between 11am and 1pm I will be signing copies of On The Buses: The Complete Story. Saturday the 20th of March 2010 at the Waterstone's at 93-97 Albion Street, Leeds. Signing copies of On The Buses: The Complete Story will take place between 2pm and 4pm. Saturday the 27th of March 2010 in the North East of England. At Watersone's, 31 The Bridges Shopping Centre, Sunderland from 12pm to 2pm I will be signing copies of my book. Saturday the 3rd of April 2010 at Waterstone's Bookshop, 101-103 Market Street, St. Andrews between 12pm and 2pm. Hope to see a lot of On The Buses fans on those dates.
The inimitable Arthur Mullard (Holiday On The Buses) stars alongside Queenie Watts once again in this ratings-winning spin-off from hit 1970s sitcom Romany Jones. Yus My Dear fi nds notorious caravan dwellers Wally and Lil Briggs setting up home in a new council house, having been forced off their Romany site to make way for redevelopment; the warring couple are joined by Wally’s layabout brother, Benny (an early TV role for EastEnders star and stand-up comedian Mike Reid). Wally might be earning top wages on a building site, but Benny always has plenty of ways to spend Wally’s hard-earned cash before Lil can get to it... It has been confirmed that Yus, my Dear series 2 is to be released in the mid year. Thanks to Craig Hill Yus, my Dear series 2 - Release date 05th April 2010. Now availible to pre-order at 14.99 RRP 19.99. Prices my vary?.
My name is Joe and I used to be a production painter on the show called On the Buses.. I was in hospital recently and was reading the Daily Mail and i noticed in the reader question and answer section, a question asking   if anybody knew where the location shots were done .I was given your web address and wondered if you could provide the info and send it to the paper  Part of the job of the studio painter was to change all the signs on the buses this was done with prepainted signs and placed on the bus by using vaseline  ,fine in winter but bit more tricky in the summer. If it got to hot the vaseline  would run  and the signs would tilt a little. One of the first jobs that we had to do was to disguise the outside of the bus garage with a large sign this  a bit tricky because it was a working bus garage and the sign was put up using ropes  and had to come down as soon as we finished shooting. another thing we had to do as a crew, was to place  bus stops in various place and then drive to the next place  in order that we can do maybe a drive by shot, on more than one occasion we have come back and found people at the bus stop. they had a long wait. You obviously had to watch continuity, as shots had to match the studio set, this was done with the designer  supervising us . It was a great show to work on Lwt was a great company to work for.I spent over 30 years there First  in wembley then on to the south bank .Yes those were the days. Something that comes to mind, is they had to be very careful when they brought the bus on to the stage in wembley the stage doors are not that high. The stage it was recorded in were 5a and 5b there was and still is a large wall that rises in the middle of the stage .These studios are still used and you can see the same studio with the raised wall on the x Factor  I was in hospital recently, and the only that you had to do was watch the TV. I think the other patients thought that it was a bit strange laughing out loud whilst watching buses. It was strange seeing something that you were a part of so many years later Regards Joe   I hope to hear more from Joe soon	Happy Christmas I'd like to wish everyone who has supported me, purchased from me or promoted me during 2009 a fantastic Christmas and a great big thank you. Highlights of the year included a number of events with the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, a collaboration with the Dad's Army Museum in Thetford, and a return stint at the Old Joint Stock Theatre. This years Birmingham Comedy Festival exhibition at the Kitchen Garden Cafe again gave me excellent press exposure and a radio interview with Loyd Williams on BBC WM. The Highbury Theatre in Sutton Coldfield named me as Artist in Residence and I said a fond farewell to the original portraits of the Carry On team and Fawlty Towers (which made the bank manager happy) but said hello to Steptoe and his Son. To finish the year in style I had a trip to the Dad's Army Museum to hang my Dad's Army portrait and had the honour of meeting David Croft OBE co-writer of the much loved series (see photo). What's in store for next year? .........Pleasingly the order book is already filling up nicely with commissions. Two new Comedy Classic portraits are on the drawing board, Laurel and Hardy and On the Buses (can't wait to get stuck into these after Christmas). The Dad's Army Museum will be raffling my original artwork to help raise funds for a Captain Mainwaring statue and we are also finalising an exciting merchandising deal which will be exclusive to the museum. As Artist in Residence at the Highbury I hope to create some unique images of theatre life. have a great Christmas. Steve