{"id":129,"date":"2020-09-15T06:48:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2025-02-17T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:46:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light is-repeated is-style-default\" style=\"min-height:550px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#000000\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-278 is-repeated\" style=\"background-position:42% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1974-1977-100.jpg)\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-white-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 31%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Journey Through Time<\/h2>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/VR-Fronts-A-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/VR-Fronts-A-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/VR-Fronts-A-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/VR-Fronts-A-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/VR-Fronts-A-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/VR-Fronts-A-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/southdownnbc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/VR-Fronts-A-1568x1050.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ast-global-color-4-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Southdown Motor Services (post 1969)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>With the inception of the National Bus Company, few would have believed that such radical changes with regard to livery, fleetname and operating methods would take so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a young person observing the gradual dismantling of a once great and respected bus and coach operator, I was dismayed to see the imposition of uniformity, the removal of &#8216;local&#8217; corporate personality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though I moved away from the area in late 1972, for a number of years I returned to visit friends and relatives, trying to take as many photographic images of this long and gradual changeover period (usually during school and then college holidays).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>These images do not represent a<\/strong> comprehensive record of this period, but are my own personal recollections of what it was like during that time, prior to the even more turbulent period up to the absorbtion of the re-privatised Company into the Stagecoach Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Journey Through Time Southdown Motor Services (post 1969) With the inception of the National Bus Company, few would have believed that such radical changes with regard to livery, fleetname and operating methods would take so long. 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