Reportage from the Free Photographic Omnibus, 1973-1974

While living on the bus I would ask my visitors — those who posed for their photographs as well as those who came along out of curiosity — to suggest subjects for my camera, people or events I might photograph within walking or cycling distance of where the bus was parked up.

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Coal Dock, Goole. September 1973

David Stephenson, Conanby, Yorkshire. September 1973

Attercliffe, Sheffield. October 1973

Attercliffe Sale and Exchange, Attercliffe Common, Sheffield, Yorkshire. October 1973

M62 motorway near Ripponden, Scammonden Reservoir to the right, West Yorkshire. October 1973

Mrs Emare’s son with doves and bar, Hulme, Manchester. February 1974

Burton-on-Trent. February, 1974

Opening of a hypermarket, Telford New Town, Shropshire. February 1974

Man with Babycham advert, Star and Garter pub, West Bromwich. March 1974

Robert William Bloomer, Noah Bloomer and Sons, chain shop, Cradley Heath, West Midlands. March 1974

The Mullings family. Penrith Avenue, Sale, Cheshire. April 1974

Edward Wyndham Miller of the Sussex Brewery (pub), Hermitage, Emsworth, Hampshire. April 1974

Exhibition opening of work by artist Bob Law, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. May 1974

The Derby, Epsom, Surrey. June 1974

Approaching London. June 1974

Sonny Cook, gardener, beneath yew hedge grown against where an elm tree had been felled following the epidemic of Dutch elm disease which devastated the UK’s stock of elms in the early 1970s. Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire. July 1974

Mr. Finch of the Dumbleton Estate building staff, Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire. July 1974

Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire. July 1974

Mrs. Boxer Chandler, Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire. July 1974

Vicar taking communion to parishoner out in the village during Sunday church service. Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire. July 1974

Mike Fitzer, under-keeper, and family, Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire. July 1974

Pylon Painters, Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire. July 1974

Peter Hoffman of Circus Hoffman, with bears, Weymouth, Dorset. July 1974

Clowns, Circus Hoffman, Weymouth, Dorset. July 1974

Bowie fan, Weymouth, Dorset. May 1974

Weymouth, Dorset. July 1974

Beach preacher, Weymouth,Dorset. July 1974

Tanger Troupe, Circus Hoffman, Plymouth. August 1974

Fakenham, Norfolk. August 1974

Stubble burning, Norfolk. August 1974

Haafnet fishing, near Port Carlisle, Bowness-on-Solway. September 1974

Tattoo of the Hartlepool Monkey. Seaton Carew, Co. Durham. September 1974

George Hepple, Northumbrian pipes player, Haltwhistle, Cumbria. September 1974

Blind accordion player, busking outside deprtment store, Newcastle upon Tyne. September 1974

Afternoon of gas-conversion Sunday (town gas to North Sea gas), Newcastle upon Tyne. September 1974

Byker Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne. September 1974

Pigeon cree, Newcastle upon Tyne. September 1974

Robert and James Broxton, Easington Colliery, Co.Durham. September 1974

Italo ‘Roy’ Rigali, singing his 'Bollard Calypso' — a protest song against parking restrictions imposed on customers at his fish and chip shop — in a working men's club, Easington Village, Co. Durham. September 1974

Medieval banquet, Langley Castle, Northumberland. October 1974

Horse and coal mine, Workington, Cumbria. October 1974

Workington, Cumbria. October 1974

Inside a strike meeting,Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. November 1974

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Bus A Yorkshire, 22 Sep-31 Oct 1973

Bus B East Midlands, 29 Nov 1973-19 Jan 1974

Bus C West Midlands, 3 Feb-20 Mar 1974

Bus D South, with papers, colour negatives and prints of Penrith Avenue, Sale, Cheshire, 12 Apr-15 May 1974

Bus E South, with negatives and contacts of the bus by Allan Andrew, 18 May - 29 Jun 1974, 18 May 2002

Bus F Great Washbourne and South West (part 1), 30 Jun-25 Jul 1974

Bus G South West (part 2), 25 Jul-25 Aug 1974

Bus H North East, Sep-Nov 1974