East Yorkshire Motor Services 670 (VKH 670) at Scarborough (RHG Simpson photo)

Photo by R H G Simpson of Oxford from whom I bought a number of period photographs in the 1960s.

East Yorkshire Motor Services 670 (VKH 670) is seen prior to departing on service 10 from Westwood Bus Station in Scarborough to Flamborough North Landing. I couldn't resist including this photograph as it features my Great Aunt Florrie who is visible through the window below the nearside driver's mirror. She would be returning home to Cayton Village after shopping or such. I also include the photograph because it was no doubt one of the buses I had travelled on when visiting her and her sister, Annie, visits I always enjoyed.

The magnificent dark blue, cream and white livery of EYMS buses and the visit out to Cayton, then a rural village which has now almost become a suburb of Scarborough, always brings back pleasant memories for me. As a schoolboy my Dad, born and raised in Scarborough in the 1920s, used to make the journey to stay with his Aunties Annie and Florrie for his annual holiday - all of a 3 mile bus ride! He recalled travelling by what was an independent operator at some point.

United Automobile Services also ran a service between Scarborough and Cayton Village (service 111) but my two Great Aunts would only use it when absolutely necessary - they were staunch supporters of East Yorkshire and their service 10. Service 10 operated between Scarborough and Hunmanby via Cayton Village and Filey. In the early 1960s a summer only extension to Flamborough (North Landing) was introduced and 670 carries a window sign for that destination. The Park Royal bodied Leyland Tiger Cub was new in 1957 and left the fleet 11 years later.

(Since it is not possible on Ipernity to omit the date a photograph was taken (to the right of the photograph), the date shown above has to be supposition otherwise the date taken would appear as the same date I uploaded the photograph (January 28 2015). That would appear very inaccurate and rather strange indeed).