Reference
PCShillington32/3
Title
Correspondence regarding the bus service provided by United Counties Omnibus Company Limited after their take over of the routes previously run by Birch Brothers
Date free text
1968-1970
Production date
From: 1968 To: 1970
Scope and Content
Correspondence regarding the bus service provided by United Counties Omnibus Company Limited after their take over of the routes previously run by Birch Brothers, including the following:
- complaint of severe social difficulties caused to RAF Henlow employees living in Shillington and Lower Stondon due to altered timetables [1968];
- details of and comments on alterations to timetables [1968-1969]
- complaints regarding difficulty of people living in Stondon attending the doctor’s surgery in Shillington due to curtailment of bus services [1968-1969];
- proposal for a Sub-Committee of the Association of Public Transport Users, South Bedfordshire Division, to cover Campton, Gravenhurst, Higham Gobion, Holwell, Meppershall, Pirton, Shillington and Stondon [1968];
- letter from a parishioner regarding possible scrapping of a bus service to Shillington in the light of Government policy to reduce rural bus services [1970].
Level of description
item