Bus shelters. So often overlooked and underrated. There was a brick-built shelter in the village where I was born. It was erected long before the war. Last winter, a delivery van skidded on some ice and demolished it. A history of cosy waiting and conversation, wiped out.
Martin, bus shelters today appear to have moved on into the realm of designer items or platforms for fashion adverts. This particular shelter is a refugee from the days when utilitarianism was the order of the day. I can just imagine a joiner getting a few sheets of 8 foot by 4 foot plywood and knocking it up in an afternoon - then a lick of paint. Progress and fashion has passed it by - not to mention the buses. And conversation with strangers has found a new home in the outside smoking areas in pubs.
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Bus shelters. So often overlooked and underrated. There was a brick-built shelter in the village where I was born. It was erected long before the war. Last winter, a delivery van skidded on some ice and demolished it. A history of cosy waiting and conversation, wiped out.
Martin, bus shelters today appear to have moved on into the realm of designer items or platforms for fashion adverts. This particular shelter is a refugee from the days when utilitarianism was the order of the day. I can just imagine a joiner getting a few sheets of 8 foot by 4 foot plywood and knocking it up in an afternoon - then a lick of paint. Progress and fashion has passed it by - not to mention the buses. And conversation with strangers has found a new home in the outside smoking areas in pubs.
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