The photo above depicts the coach park just past the Broadway cafe in Whitehawk Road. Whitehawk bus garage was further down the road towards the sea. When we were kids in the late 40s and 50s, we used to roller skate around the bus garage as the floor was as smooth as anything. When the trolley buses were being tucked up for the night, the drivers would unhook the power poles from the wires and use the batteries to drive them into the garage. We would hang on to the back of the buses on our skates and have a free tow along. When we were young teenagers, we would sneak onto a bus in the middle of the garage and do our courting in peace and quiet. Lovely days gone by. Damaging anything was not in our minds as it is today. Would love to hear from anybody else from that era who lived in the vicinity

To Mick Peirson. I lived bang opposite YHT coach park. Do you remember the green grit bin, that was there? My mates Georgie Roberts, Terry Dunk and Peter Eason used to open the doors and use the bin as our goal. We only played with a tennis ball and got quite skilful. We earnt money cleaning the coaches in the summer at two bob time, until somebody stole a camera and the cleaning stopped.

As a young boy I used to walk home to Wiston Close through the coach park after many great days at Black Rock swimming pool or the beach. There are some buildings in the picture that I am curious about, I wonder if anyone can help? In the upper left corner there are 3 buildings, behind the block of flats. (I don't think the flats were there when I lived there between 1946-1958). But the buildings I do vaguely recall. The large building at the top, the stone barn-like building between the flats and the large building and the small lighter coloured building to the right of the flats, which I seem to remember as a sort of home-made dwelling. Does anyone have any info or pictures of these buildings? Anything would be appreciated. My email is eric.cristina@yahoo.com  Thanks.

Hello Bluey - I haven't been on the website for a time. I remember the names of Terry Dunk Georgey Roberts and Peter Eason. He was the cousin of Paula and Shirley Jones from Rugby Place if I am right. Peter lived near my mum in Bristol Street when he got married he was working as a telephone engineer I think.

Mick Peirson

Hi Mick,, your dead right. Pete did live there and was a telephone engineer. Happy days.