HBM/HTT: Fenland Busfest at Whittlesey - 15 May 2022 (P1110853)

Sunday 15 May 2022 (1301) – The Fenland Busfest at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. The rally is held in the town centre occupying Broad Street and Market Street with the rally control/bus ride departures centred on the Market Place.

Arriving to take up a run to Ramsey is preserved former National Travel (South West) 359 (KAD 359V), a Plaxton Supreme bodied Leyland Leopard new in March 1980. National Express livery with ‘Black and White’ fleetnames.

In the square is X562 EGK, a Plaxton President bodied Volvo B7TL, was new in November 2000 to London General as their PVL162, loading for March.

Prominent in the Market Place is the Buttercross dating from 1680 originally a place for traders to sell goods. By the early 1800s it was used less and less and almost faced demolition but was re-roofed and survived. Before the present day bus station was created buses departed from the square and the Buttercross was used as a shelter by the waiting public.

HBM: A tenuous link to Happy Bench Monday are the bench tables outside the George Hotel (Wetherspoons) which was doing a very good trade.

HTT: The same tenuous link to Happy Tuesday Table at the George plus the tables for the memorabilia sales people around the Buttercross.