I am compiling a brief account of my childhood holidays spent with my Grandparents in Winderton in the 60s and 70s, and about the village in general at that time. There are a couple of gaps (at least!) in my memory.
Do you have any record of the name of the grocers in Shipston on Stour at that time? They were situated in the market place where the Co-op(?) is now. They used to deliver to Winderton.
Do you know when the Midland Red bus service 534 through Winderton ceased? This ran from Banbury to Stratford on Avon via Winderton and return on a Saturday and from Stratford to Banbury and return on a Wednesday. By the time of my 1962 Midland Red timetable this route was down to one bus a week, Stratford to Banbury and return on a Wednesday. Would love to know when the Saturday service was terminated and when the 534 was finally withdrawn completely.
Do you have any details of Rouse Bus services that used to run to Shipston via Brailes? I believe they were based in Epwell or Tysoe ( I already remember a fair bit about Brailes-based Matthews Coaches by the way).
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As far as I can see, the 534 actually ran from Banbury to Stratford and return on Tuesdays, and from Stratford to Banbury and return on Thursdays (Tuesday was a Stratford market day, Thursday was a Banbury market day). The 534 was finally withdrawn in March 1968, by which time only the Thursday journeys were still running – unfortunately I don’t know when the Tuesday journeys had ceased.
Rouse was indeed based in Oxhill. He ran a bus service on Saturdays between Tysoe, Oxhill, Whatcote, Shipston-on-Stour and Stretton-on-Fosse. I don’t think it ran via Brailes though.
So the grocers would have been Greenhills but that was on the High Street rather than Market Place. The name of the one on Market Place escapes me but it was where Head Hunters hairdressers now appears to be, Hince’s butchers was near by.
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