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Here you go Mr History, instead of burdening the Forum servers further, I've taken the liberty of setting up a flickr account for the forum


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Photos can now be tagged and everything, hell geotag it if you want

Laur Wrote:

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> I love how the photo of the 12 bus has captured a

> passenger jumping on whilst the bus is in motion.


I have lived in London since 1994 now and as an able bodied person have jumped aboard any route master bus in motion as a matter of course.

I noticed that too Laur. Reminds me of catching the old routemaster No. 3 bus home from Kingsdale in the late 70s. We would all be hanging off the end!


The old photo of the Kings on the Rye brings back memories too. Everytime I go past the whitewash building now it just looks so out of place to what I remember.

I realised when I posted the original post that I had forgotten to check what awards had actually been given. nxjen posted the link which showerd both police officers got the Gearge Medal and I can confirm that Henry James Hicks also got a George Medal.

The story of the night of 27/12/40 continues.


After the first three people received the George Medal a case was put forward for two bus conducters to received recognition for there bravery that night.


These two got commendations.


I have also attached the pages from the Met. Police diary for that night just for general interest. P division is where these events happened.

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