Right, what’s going on here? I distinctly remember the back end of the 87-88 season, Bury away was on my birthday and the first time I travelled on the non-Mounties coach, of which you were on too! Muddy, Glenn’y as well as Caddy were on the bus….you used to start the singing, song called ‘Allouette’ or something. I remember Brighton away…we stopped at the services, all piled out for food and then got rushed back onto the coach with plates of food, plastic trays, cuttlery the lot….and everything ended up going out of the coach skylights!! These coaches only ran till the end of that season……
Tell me I’m not going mad here!!
I was just making the point, I started the Mounties, I didn't follow on from them.
The thing that killed them off was other coaches starting to run, mainly on the close journeys where they could charge less, particularly the Jimmy's End bus which could seat 80+ I believe. The Mounties had eventually tried to make every trip cost the same, so cheaper going to Hartlepool but more expensive Peterborough and that decision proved fatal in the end.
Anyway, we're talking decades ago, I just wanted to set the record straight.