Thanks to all the following people in making the ON THE BUSES event another great weekend. * Craig Walker for all his time and effort into finding locations and attending meetings * All the celebrities and special guest that came along to our event, it was great to have so many on-board. * Morris Bright at Elsree Studios and his team plus the security staff at the studios. * Dean Sullivan of Sullivan Buses for providing not just the buses but being a big part of our event and all the taking part and input along with Steve Simmonds the other driver. A great team BIG THANKS. A special thanks must also go to Del Hampshire our bus driver for the Sunday film locations tour * Nerina and Mark Hughes in bringing the other Routemaster to our event it was especially appreciated on the Friday with the senior visitors at the Orchards. * All the helpers during the Saturday at the Studios Caroline Walker, Ray Warren, Gillian Bryant, Andrew Gilbert, Cliff Harris and Clare Loughlin. *Mia Walker and Cliff Harris our official OTB fan club photographer. * Rich Coghill for helping in many ways including assisting with the celebrities. *Steve Lilly our artist in residence and his fantastic artwork on display and for sale on the day. *Robert Hickey for arranging the Friday event for the senior residents at the day club. *And of course you our great bunch of fans who make all the hard work worth while and it was great to see so many of our regulars returning time and time again THANK YOU! . *SEE YOU IN 2017 DING DING!*
FRIDAY
On the Friday prior to the event Craig, Caroline, myself, Colleen and young Jack visited some senior citizens at a lunch club, to give them a trip down memory with a talk about ON THE BUSES and were delighted that Andria Lawrence (Turn around Betty) and Phil Cambell and Brian Reynolds, two Elstree runners were able to join us. Also must give a big thanks to Mark (seen below in his busmans jacket ) and Nerina Hughes for brining along their Routemaster bus, that stayed with us throughout the entire weekend. The event was organised by Robert Hickey and we were happy to give up our day to chat to a very responsive group of seniors.
Andria Lawrence in front of the Routemaster.
Andria Lawrence talking about her career with Robert Hickey along side of her.
Lunch Club
Lunch Club
Lunch Club
SATURDAY MORNING OTB LOCATIONS TOUR
The fan club is indebted to Dean Sullivan for providing his knowledge and the buses for our events and are is a great supporter of our fan club events. and a key part of our weekend. With thanks to Steve Simmonds for being the other driver on Saturday and Del Hampshire our Sunday bus driver – THANKS you all did a great job!
The Saturday morning tour was organised by Craig Walker and
Rich who spent a lot of time researching locations for both the tours.
We stop off at Turn Around Betty's house as seen in
the ON THE BUSES movie
Stan with turnaround betty.
A stop off The Launderette as seen in the ON THE BUSES movie
SATURDAY SITCOM HEAVEN TV AND FILM STUDIO EVENT
The Sitcom Heaven event was held at Elstree Studios and the afternoon was dedicated to ON THE BUSES. Here we see fans starting to take their seats. With more special guests than ever before and NEVER BEFORE SEEN interviews with Reg Varney and Stephen Lewis,
it was a great afternoon
Anna Karen/Olive a special guest at the event and a
great supporter of our fan-club events
photo Cliff Harris
Here we see just 3 of the special guests on stage at the the Sitcom Heaven event. From left to right- They are Maureen Sweeny (Mavis in HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES) John Lyons who played Bert the bus driver in 4 episodes of ON THE BUSES and Helen Frazer who played Linda in ON THE BUSES
Stan and Mavis
Here we see Anna with one of our regular attendees at our events
- Maxine
SUNDAY MORNING BUS TOUR
Below we see fans visit the famous Cemetery Gates with Del our driver seen on the left in the red tie. Great job Dan!
Due to the kindness of the residents we were able to see inside Reg Varney's former home in Enfield.
In the hallway we see Colleen our 1970's clippie
