Fishwicks bus driver

[seaman]

Is this the billy pilkington that worked their in th 60s?quote:

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Originally posted by bobcat

his name is billy pilkington he still works for fishwicks

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[davdo2004]

Hi Gordy,welcome to the forum.If you look at the first post on this thread and follow the link to the youtube video,perhaps you can tell us.

[davdo2004]

Two more examples of Fishwicks after life,
http://tinyurl.com/n9gpbw
http://tinyurl.com/mv4zav

[millie]

My mum and dad used to work on fishwick buses vicky and ronnie welch does anyone remember them?

wendy

[sandyship]

I have just been reading this site about the buses and the name Billy Pilkington caught my eye as i used to live next door to a Billy Pilkington. This was in Mayfield ave- lostock Hall. he would be in his early 70's by now. Does anyone know anything about where he lived- Curious Sandy

[mick]

A good teenage friend of mine Joe Mancoweitz - maybe spelt wrong - was a conductor at Fishwick's until he started at the Motor's. He sadly died at Harefield hospital in the late 80's waiting for a heart transplant. Does anyone remember him at Fishwick's in the 70's.

[davdo2004]

Mick, I remember Joey from my schooldays. Sad to hear of his death.

Dave.

[leylandwanderer]

I remember going to fishwicks garage down the side of the police station as a youngster with a mr nugent and his dog MEG.

[anacortesdamp]

The garage down the side of the Police Station was originally Singleton's. They ran a taxi and charter coach operation. Originally, Fishwick's was strictly a "fixed route" service and their garage was to the west of the Leyland & Birmingham Rubber Company factory on Golden Hill Lane - right opposite the top of the School Lane hill.

When I was a kid, the family holidays were usually in St. Annes or Fleetwood (not Capri or Malaga!!) . Until I was around 12, we didn't have a car, so every "Wakes Week" a Singleton's taxi (typically a limousine body on a long-wheelbase Austin 20, with drop-down seats against the partition to the driver's station) came and picked us up at home and took us to our holiday "digs". Then they came and picked us up at the end of the holiday. I suspect they were getting twice as much as usual, because they'd have an outgoing family on the trip when they brought us back.

If I remember right, the taxi service ended after the Fishwick's take-over.


Frank

[Jerryt]

Smithy (Patricia Rukin, nee Smith) posted this on 21 Sept 2007 - in 'Anyone Remember':- "My father-in-law drove Fishwicks buses for years (Bill Rukin), started way back when the buses had solid tyres!"

I discovered last night (too late unfortunately as she died in 2008) that she was my cousin-in-law, having married Billy's son Jack; Billy was my Mum's brother.

Mum (Jessie) worked for some time at the Motors - as a typist/clerk I think. Then she married Bruce and had me!
Dad was a Master Printer having studied in Manchester - he then sold Insurance before the war and we lived in Stockport for a while - he was a Squadron Leader in Coastal Command and finished the war as an instructor at Friars Gate, Blackpool.

After the war we holidayed a couple of times at Cleveleys and I recall a similar trip as Frank remembers - in a Taxi - but I think it was from a different operator (Marsden??)

We came to NZ in 1954 - Dad died about 1966 but Mum (95 this coming NY Eve) still lives in Hastings where we first settled; my younger brother John lives with and cares for her.

Jerry Threlfall