{"id":3024,"date":"2023-07-31T01:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/branscombe-bus-bother-1\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:29:01","slug":"branscombe-bus-bother-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/branscombe-bus-bother-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Branscombe Bus Bother (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
It Seemed A Good Idea At The Time<\/span><\/p>\n Using an historic variety of vehicles over the years …<\/p>\n It is scruffy, messy and totally uncared for.<\/p>\n It was not a nice place in which to sit.<\/p>\n It was certainly NOT a positive advert for bus travel.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Pity they weren’t stuck in the Frame properly; and a pity the various timetable frames were scattered around and not grouped together.<\/p><\/div>\n AVT had, sensibly, posted their own bus stop “flag” stuck firmly on the glass in amongst all the unstuck remnants.<\/p>\n Oh, yes; the (un)real time display was showing blank – yet again<\/span>.<\/p>\n Right on time off we set, up Castle Hill and aiming for Beer.<\/p>\n The “Castle” (fake of course) was once a private residence and is now the obligatory flats but most with a view to die for …<\/p>\n … even better from the upper floor apartments. The fbb’s did look at making a purchase thereof, but parking is limited and insufficient for all occupants, so punch-ups were likely!<\/p><\/div>\n … Beer Hill and New Road.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n There are some very posh pads between Seaton and Beer including this Art Deco beauty …<\/p>\n … set against today’s version.<\/p>\n The key is the long straight track disappearing off bottom left on both maps.<\/p><\/div>\n … do nearly a U turn at the top with a view of rooftops just passed …<\/p>\n … then more housing on the uphill side.<\/p>\n We drop back down to the village, just passing Peco HQ, shop and Pleasure Gardens on the way down.<\/p>\n From now, for a good few miles, the roads are decidedly thin.<\/p>\n We are making for visitor attraction Beer Quarry Caves …<\/p>\n … whereat bits of Salisbury Cathedral were chopped out! This bit obviously was not up to standard …<\/p>\n … so, after months of painstaking work, it was never delivered to whomsoever ordered it; and “the lads” had to start again.<\/p><\/div>\n … which fbb thinks were once “back to back” houses. A little further on and, socially distanced in the pre-Covod style, we see the owner’s or manager’s premises …<\/p>\n