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INTERVIEW: Taking a nostalgic trip on the buses for Morecambe Vintage Bus Day

It's your chance to take a nostalgic trip on the Morecambe buses of yesteryear at the Vintage Bus Day this Sunday (May 22).

The Morecambe Vintage Bus Day will feature a display of around 70-80 classic buses which used to operate in the town.

They can be seen at the Mazuma Stadium, home of Morecambe Football Club, starting at 9.30am.

There will also be free bus services on the vintage vehicles too, running from Heysham Village, Carnforth, Happy Mount Park and Bare Lane Station.

We spoke to Lance Jobson, company secretary of the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust. Lance, whose dad was a bus driver, has a real passion for the vintage vehicles.

LISTEN to our interview with Lance Jobson here:

Ribble Motor Services used to run the buses in our local area, operating from 1919 until the late 1980s when the firm was sold out to Stagecoach.

Lance said the Vintage Bus Day would be a great day for all the family.

"It's about bringing out the vehicles so grandma and grandad can reminisce about the vehicles they used to work on, or that mum and dad went to school on, and the kids - we genuinely have children coming out who have never been on a bus in their life. Kids are fascinated by it all, really.

"A lot of families would have had people who worked on the buses.

"Before the M6 was built, for coaches travelling from Scotland down to London, Morecambe was a main stopping point. You'd go to Morecambe bus station on Euston Road and it was absolutely heaving.

"Ribble had two depots, what is now Chelsea Mews on Skerton Bridge at Lancaster, and what is now little Asda (on Lancaster Road in Morecambe)."

Find out more about Morecambe Vintage Bus Day here. 

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