Jim Blakes's London Lost Bus Routes

This book looks at London bus routes in the mainstream number series, Central Area routes 1-299 plus the original Red Arrow routes, which have come and gone during the period when I was most active with my cameras, roughly between the mid-1960s and the early 1990s. Naturally, it would be completely beyond the scope of a book this size to enumerate all London bus routes that are no longer in operation, nor even to reiterate the often numerous and complex changes that befell those which are featured. Such information is in any case readily available elsewhere. The book aims to show defunct routes - some well-remembered and some long forgotten - in their everyday working environment. The time period covered by this book covers three important phases in the development of London's bus services - the 'Reshaping Plan' era of the late 1960s, the 'Bus Plan '78' upheavals of ten years later and finally the 'Law Lords' service cuts of the 1980s.