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| Bus Station, West Street, Fareham. |
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| Brief Description: View of 2 Provincial buses in Fareham Bus Station, with stands, shops and another bus on West Street, Fareham, 1987. |
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| Subject Date: 1 July 1987 |
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| Creator: Derek Dine, Hampshire County Library |
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| Owner: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Contributor: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Full Description: The buses are named People's Provincial on their sides. Shops opposite the bus station on West Street are Dewhurst, W H Smith in the Savoy Buildings, SBS European Kitchens and Currys. A Telecom van from BT is passing by.
Buses replaced the old tram service between Fareham and Gosport. Cars, at this time, were too expensive for the average person to buy. The last tram ran on 31 December 1929 and the buses that replaced them could increase the number and variety of routes very quickly. During the 1920's, many bus services such as Mallards, Smith Brothers and Tutt's Enterprise grew up in the area competing with the trams and later larger companies took over with Southdown, Hants & Dorset and Provincial being the most important. The bus station was built at the junction of West Street with Portland Street when Thackeray House, once owned by the grandmother of novelist William Thackeray and later a library and reading room was demolished.
References:
1. Brown, Ron. 1983. Fareham of yesteryear, p. 53.
2. Burton, Lesley and Musselwhite, Brian. 1991. An illustrated history of Fareham, p. 99. |
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| Place: Fareham, Fareham Borough, Hampshire |
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| Subject: street, West Street, Portland Street, transport, bus, People's Provincial, van, shop, butcher, Dewhurst, newsagent, W H Smith, kitchens, SBS Kitchens, electrical, Currys, building, Thackeray House |
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| Name Subject: William Thackeray, People's Provincial, Dewhurst, W H Smith, SBS European Kitchens, Currys, BT, British Telecom, Mallards, Smith Brothers, Tutt's Enterprise, Southdown, Hants and Dorset, Provincial |
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| Content Type: Photograph |
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| Location: Fareham Library |
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| Local Ref: 493/6/4 |
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| Unique ID: hs-hl-hs2372-i-00-000.jpg |
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| IPR: Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council |
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