Friday, November 10, 2006

On the Brighton buses

During the last Liberal Democrat Conference I commented on Brighton and Hove's delightful practice of naming its buses after prominent local residents.

I have now found a page that lists all the people who have been honoured in this way and provides links to short biographies of them.

Hours of fun.

4 comments:

Niles said...

Nottingham trams do likewise.

Alex

The Pink Hat said...

Thanks Jonathan! There are certainly some interesting names on list!

Tom Barney said...

What a pity they haven't used Magnus Volk, who built the electric railway along the front (and also the extraordinary but long-defunct Brighton & Rottingdean seashore electric tramroad) and installed electric light in Brighton Pavilion.

Jonathan Calder said...

Good news, Tom. Volk is there as no. 810.