HFF: Guide Friday ETO 166L at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage at Shottery – 11 Jul 1987 (51-24)

Saturday 11 July 1987 – Guide Friday was originally based in Stratford-upon-Avon. Following its success with sightseeing tours in its hometown the company gradually expanded to provide similar tours in many tourist centres using secondhand buses converted to open top.

ETO 166L, a Willowbrook bodied Daimler Fleetline new to Nottingham City Transport (161) in March 1973 was typical of the Guide Friday operation.

It was lettered for ‘The Castles Tour’ which served the castles at Kenilworth and Warwick, however it was seen at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Shottery near Stratford-upon-Avon working 'The Stratford Tour'.

Anne Hathaway, who became the wife of William Shakespeare, was born at the cottage in 1556. The Cottage was originally a farmhouse built in 1463. The first Hathaway to live in the cottage was Anne’s grandfather John Hathaway, who was a tenant sheep farmer.