Bus variety Enfield, Edmonton, Wood Green, Turnpike Lane in 1991

Filmed in 1991, see some unusual vehicles here, like the secondhand single door Metrobuses in use from Potters Bar garage on route W8, and the Wright Handybus bodied Dennis Darts on route 84a (now renumbered as route 184). Also Grey-Green at Turnpike Lane on route 298.

[@G.A-m1t]

So glad these videos were filmed. People back then probably never thought these would be so sought after. So great 😊

[@BristolRE]

Thanks, just wish I'd made the effort to film more

[@jamesmyers6603]

Brilliant , great footage with great sounds coming from those old engines 👌🏾

[@BristolRE]

Thanks. Those were happy days

[@DreamClean]

Thank you for having the foresight to capture footage like this. Can't tell you how interesting I find it.

[@BristolRE]

Thank You, just wish I'd taken more

[@gregoriousmaths266]

This is really cool footage! It's really cool that I am able to see what my area (where the 84a was going) looked like around 30 years ago

[@BristolRE]

Thank You

[@theinnerracer]

Yes it brings back memories! I remember the 84a route as a very young boy, taking it from Hampden Square in Southgate to Wood Green with my Mum. The bus was renamed 184 sometime in the 90s I believe. How time flies!

[@miket2563]

Enfield as well as buses long changed as well as attitudes ....good to see old Lancaster road as it was when i was 20 which was a few days before this was shot , now living in Belfast ...

[@BristolRE]

Yes, Enfield nowhere near as nice as it used to be

[@miket2563]

as the old man would say before the war .....

[@oliviabenson9508]

Thank you for recording and sharing this. Such a great glimpse into the past, really wonderful

[@BristolRE]

You're welcome, just wish I'd recorded more 'back in the day'.

[@steamingheavenh8114]

bus drivers wouldn't wave now a days more likely to get the middle finger lol

[@BristolRE]

So true, lol

[@Dannyg279]

Mystery travellers mark drivers down for waving

[@Abdul.M.]

Now bus driver don't wave at each other they give quick Flash one Another with bright LED light 🚍💯🖒

[@Abdul.M.]

Remember once on was working Work . Partner I was driving down Finchley Road. Going toward Swiss Cottage . No vehicles in the Road Just me my Work Partner . Route 13 Coming toward us I was to my Work Partner Going Flash at the bus Driver my partner was like flash at him. Bus Driver Flash back with his Bright LED Light gave each other Thumbs up. That's was pretty Awesome. 🖒💯

[@AaronOxfordExmouth1989]

This is a bit of history. I am truly thankful to you for doing this. Absolutely fantastic.

[@BristolRE]

Thank You

[@AaronOxfordExmouth1989]

The M's, V's and really everything in this is amazing, all gone but never forgotten! Used to travel from the other side of London to see this stuff. Fantastic work

[@BristolRE]

@@AaronOxfordExmouth1989 Just wish we'd had HD video back then!

[@AaronOxfordExmouth1989]

@@BristolRE we can only dream of that. Those M's were like a magnet for me, especially those WY Mk2 pair, although I have been informed that they were horrible things.

[@BristolRE]

@@AaronOxfordExmouth1989 The CUB***Y ones? They were not too bad, the others were worse

[@MrPabsUk]

I used to get the MCW 231 home from the Hop Poles (Lancaster Rd/Baker St junction) till I left Chase in 1986, or, I used to get the (Sometimes Volvo) Wally 8 from Baker Street to Edmonton Green, then a 144a to where I used to get off (bottom of The Cambridge Rd).

[@miket2563]

Chace .... hanging round the hop poles with the chase girls ...that hasn't changed even now .... oh and you leaving in 86 , we may have crossed paths cause i left in 1988 after i stayed on so i think i was year below you ....small world chum :)

[@walthamwalker]

Great video Good to see how it used to be

[@BristolRE]

Thanks, the good times are long gone

[@tiedupsmurf]

These were good days, just didn't know it. July 20/20

[@BristolRE]

So true

[@BristolRE]

You're welcome. Things have changed beyond belief!

[@lesleycronin832]

OMG the Grey-Green 298 at 5:06 and 7:28!!!

[@BristolRE]

Indeed!

[@NextSound170]

You old LT trained drivers know how to move a bus, the fun I had riding around those days. Nowadays too careful! Tatty looking buses from London Northern! Carried on into Metroline

[@BristolRE]

Indeed!

[@n136h]

The 121 at end. Used to get from green lanes to oakwood to go to st Ignatius lower

[@jahreign2388]

Anyone else remember sitting in the burger king with their mum opposite Turnpike Lane Station

[@BristolRE]

I remember it when it was a Wimpy back in the late 80s!

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

Yep. Was is previously called The Wellington - a pub?

[@Cortinaman63]

It was also called Huckelberrys, was there the same time McDonalds was further up the high street. Mum & I liked Huckleberrys better, as they did seriously thick milk shakes, which tasted much nicer and their French fries were a lot nicer too, was really sad when it closed down, was the best rival to McDonalds ever. they sold basically the same things just a whole lot nicer.

[@scotteyboy1983]

love the good old buses

[@ythom6163]

Wow look at Edmonton green bus station

[@BristolRE]

Yes, it was much nicer then as well

[@levmyshkin8366]

Haha the chemists at 5:11 is still there, but everything is so different back then!

[@BristolRE]

+Lev Myshkin Lol

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

......Wood Green, Edmonton Green still recognisable though!

[@marjoriewebby9553]

5:54 Tesco in Wood Green used to be cassey’s

[@BristolRE]

😮😮

[@neoman7792]

Unusual type of Metrobus that !

[@chocolatelips1772]

I might start filming buses on my channel

[@BristolRE]

Cool - I shall look forward to that!

[@BristolRE]

One of the second-hand ones that came to London Buses in 1987/88 from 'up north'

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

.........isn't it LOVELY - no Cycle Lanes (which nobody uses anyway) causing queues behind buses at Stops. Those were the days my friend!

[@BristolRE]

So true!

[@h3526]

True now cycle lanes are everywhere and if TFL finds out they could extend a cycle route to them It happens in every London borough

[@BristolRE]

@@h3526 All madness

[@AlanTaylorCRSmusicproduction]

There's actually white English people on the streets & on the buses!

[@ythom6163]

I know! Gross!

[@micahm4590]

MusicalElitist1 oh shut up

[@marjoriewebby9553]

@@ythom6163 stop disrespecting white people

[@ythom6163]

@@marjoriewebby9553 no

[@TerryJohnson7]

​@@marjoriewebby9553he prefers crime infested streets

[@easygo1477]

Was this taken in 03/1991

[@deanmadnut2614]

Wow how awful london has become now

[@cosmic687]

too many foreigners

[@deanmadnut2614]

@@cosmic687 yeah Turkish buying up all the council homes in Enfield and then renting them all back to the council, fucking joke all the fucking shops on the High Street Hertford Road mostly Turkish corner shops, restaurants, isak Walton pub bottom of green street has now shut down and heard it might now be a Turkish restaurant, all you see is kebab shop next to that a pizza shop and next to that another kebab shop next to that one a fuckin chicken shop oh and oppisite the chicken shop ah another fucking chicken shop

[@cosmic687]

@@deanmadnut2614 we've been sold out by our shit heap government

[@AdamHiley-pj2zn]

@@deanmadnut2614 that's the Tories and Labour for you both would sell their own grandparents

[@0zz1ex96]

@@deanmadnut2614 atleast there’s more diversity in london now. i’m turkish myself and damn u came off a bit rude... if it wasn’t for us or other foreigners, you lot would still be munching on fish and chips till this day. at least there’s cultural foods here now 😒

[@londonbusfanrex]

Bristol be uploading real enfield, edmonton north london etc logic!

[@BristolRE]

@C0BO Believe it or not, it's a Metrobus!

[@mahammad]

OMG 5:19 Wood Green so magnificent..now it's just a 3rd world sh*ithole 😭

[@Brock-Lesnar-WWE]

You ain't even English yourself...you're one of those 3rd world shitholes

[@marjoriewebby9553]

Language please don’t say bad words

[@Dannyg279]

Lt mki metrobuses much nicer. Really miss Titans they still look modern now

[@BristolRE]

@scotteyboy1983 Yes, the good old days.

[@Abdul.M.]

For couple Sec Mind like 8 don't go to North London . PB this bit Odd look close up it was W8 The letter W lower the number 8 lool

[@BristolRE]

Yes, it looked most odd

[@Abdul.M.]

@@BristolRE yeah Odd Front

[@manbtm1480]

I prefer London from 2000 to 2015

[@mahammad]

Manbtm Ilovecandy same, I prefer 2000 to 2011

[@TerryJohnson7]

golden era before NRMs taking over half the buses, electric buses and sadiq khan

[@thomasfluskey5922]

Bring back the metrobuses into a morden version

[@Abdul.M.]

Save Best at the End 123 them buses well know by Stageocach. London . I called Childhood memories bus 144 the bus Bouncing around can Imagine being on it

[@BristolRE]

Lol, they were good time

[@christopherhulse8385]

Did you film this?

[@BristolRE]

Yes, bought myself a VHS-C camcorder back in 1990, sadly I didn't use it nearly enough.

[@CourtneyBonnick060789]

What is that bus at 1;20?

[@VICTOR-pf9eg]

Can I have a bus ticket to 1991 please no just for the day

[@BristolRE]

Lol, you can if I can have one back to 1976

[@DarrenSaw]

@@BristolRE 1976, that was a hot old summer. SMSs on the 231, RTs on the 217. Happy days. No nasty GMPTE atlanteans on the 298, was as RM route then I think.

[@BristolRE]

@@DarrenSaw Definitely hot. Too hot, Lol

[@hollydalton8986]

Have you got any old 191 bus routes?

[@BristolRE]

+Holly Dalton Sorry, depends what you mean old. You might find some already on my channel from the past 10 years or so, but they'd be mixed in under the general title of 'Enfield'.

[@hollydalton8986]

Okay thanks x

[@hollydalton8986]

Would you happen to have any down The start of Nightingale road? x

[@BristolRE]

+Holly Dalton Hi, no I do not recall ever filming in or around Nightingale road. Sorry.

[@AdamHiley-pj2zn]

Now all boring enviros and Gemini's today

[@BristolRE]

Yes, not much interesting these days

[@rohattaslioglu3219]

Theses buses are fake

[@Bobbyandmog]

Fuck off

[@Abdul.M.]

Are you Seriously suggesting they Fake buses i dunno if you joking or serious. that's insult bit Harsh disrespectful. Serious Pete was working for TFL long. Time I dont work for TFL. I know Buses routes Type of Vehicles Operators use vehicles and I know Route What Garage They Operate. I like buses take it as Hobby and Interest. Them buses are real myviwn experience I been on couple of them when i was In my Childhood memories. For me your young Lad you don't know what you saying.

[@h3526]

There not. They are old buses

[@deanmadnut2614]

Yeah fuck off rohat