Children in the Snow (General)

by peteressex , Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 12:51 (4297 days ago) @ Jefff

Very much off at a tangent, Jeff, you've brought back a memory of the old Cinderford bus depot by mentioning how close you lived, and resurrected a question I've had in my mind for years.

My grandparents and I sometimes used to go from Lydney to Ross, changing at Cinderford, to see my uncle and his family before they also moved to Lydney. One night on the way back, it turned out that the bus from Cinderford to Lydney had set off from the depot without waiting to connect with the bus from Ross. I still have a mental picture of my grandfather William Frank Essex (who'd been a senior copper in London, was now a Lydney councillor, and wasn't to be messed with by any bus company) banging on the counter at the depot with his fist, pointing at little me sat there loving it, with the words "I want to make a protest (bang) in the strongest (bang) possible (bang) terms (bang)." I didn't care, because it meant I didn't get to bed back at Forest Road until nearly 11 p.m.

According to the Red & White man's cowering defence, but only if I remember it rightly, you were supposed to get off the bus from Ross at the stop before the depot and cross the road to connect with the Lydney bus as it came out. Does that ring any bells? My geography of Cinderford was never strong.