HBM: Konectbus 950 (AU07 KMM) in Norwich - 11 Jan 2019 (DSCF5833)

Friday 11 January 2019 (1106) – Go-Ahead owned Konectbus 950 (AU07 KMM) seen in Tombland, Norwich working cross city service 50 from Eaton to Mousehold Heath. It is an Optare Solo that had been new to Anglian Bus in August 2007. Both Konectbus and Anglian Bus were subsequently acquired by the Go-Ahead Group with the latter being absorbed by the former.

The restaurant on the corner of the street carries the name of Edith Cavell, the nurse who was a native of Swardeston near Norwich. She had lived in Belgium prior to World War I and is celebrated for nursing and tending soldiers from any side indiscriminately when war started. She helped numerous Allied soldiers escape German occupied Belgium for which she was sentenced and shot by a German firing squad in 1915. Edith is buried in the grounds of the nearby Norwich Cathedral.