00:08Hello, we have two former action bus drivers. Barry, give us a wave.
00:15Baza. Baza and Greg. We're in one of the Heritage Timber bus shelters. What was this bus route?
00:23Where are we? Well, we're at Ainsley. This was the original Ainsley bus service. So we're looking
00:29around about 1926, 1927, and this was the original bus terminals here. They were no further suburbs
00:36further up, so there was no downer, there was no hackett, and Dixon, I don't think, was even there
00:41at the stage either. So did you, when you were driving buses, did you pick up or drop off passengers
00:45here? Yes. Route 28 used to go past here all the time. Route 28, and you did too, Greg? Do
00:51you remember
00:51coming here? I remember coming through here. We used to come down past the Ainsley shops and then
00:56travel past here, past the church and such down the road, the All Saints down the road, carry on down
01:01to Northbourne Avenue, into the city. And this used to be the end of the line? This was the end
01:06of the line?
01:06This was the end of the line in early days. In the early days. But when we were driving,
01:10we were going up to Hackettmont on this bus route. You're both wearing some lovely hats here today.
01:17We just had someone walk past claim they were, what, British Air Force? British Air Force. He saw the
01:21crown. He saw the crown. He saw the crown. But they're not British Air Force hats. What are they,
01:26Greg? These were the hats that they issued to us when we first joined. And I was at the end
01:34of the
01:34time when the hats were optional. Optional? Optional. But they're quite fetchy. Surely we had them on all the time.
01:41No, we didn't. They were known to happen. The breeze got very heavy at going across the bridges, either
01:49Kings Avenue or Commonwealth Avenue. And they just happened to blow out the window. It was incredible.
01:55So there's a big pile, Baz. There's a big pile of these hats underneath Commonwealth Avenue.
01:59I ain't saying, underneath Commonwealth Avenue Bridge, under the water, mate, yes. It was a big drive
02:03in the 1970s to get rid of the caps because they were, we used to claim that they were sending
02:10us ball.
02:12Thanks fellas for having a chat to me. We're going to leave the buses and here's to have a drink
02:18for
02:18the 100th year in July. We've got to have a drink. We've got to have a drink. We've got to
02:21catch a bus,
02:22mate. So we'll see you later. Thank you. Okay, bye. Good on you, Tim.
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