Service beyond the call of duty
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I WAS most interested in your piece (CM February 23) concerning Holywell-based Crosville drivers. I was called up at Holywell in September 1939 and remained there until mid 1940.
For five years until June 1939 I was in lodgings in Flint on the Chester side of the town and most evenings I used to catch the last bus from Holywell at 11.26pm. One evening it left at 11.18 and I missed it. I rang up Flint depot and spoke to the foreman who thought I had made a mistake until he heard the vehicle pull in. He told me to wait at the Town Hall. Twenty minutes later he arrived with a Leyland Lion. When I said I was the only passenger his words were, "Christmas, I thought it was a bus load".
The 11.26pm terminated at Flint Town Hall then returned to the depot, but if it was raining the driver would open his window and tell me to stay on and take me a mile further.
In the mornings I used to catch a bus from Flint Town Hall to Greenfield. Again if it was raining or I was late (which was very rare) it would be waiting at the bottom of the road.
They were wonderful, happy days.
J. E. EATON Wirral Merseyside