Ground Force

(BBC gardening makeover show, 1998-2002)

Episode 2.06: Basingstoke

Geoff Cook notes from the USA: “Watching Ground Force, filmed in Basingstoke. Beginning of show Alan Titchmarsh gets off a Stagecoach double decker numbered 7446, or it could be 7448.” Malcolm Rennie also comments: “I recall seeing the programme and remember Titchmarsh getting off an ECW bodied Bristol VRT in Brackley Way on the South Ham estate in Basingstoke.”
A review of the footage reveals the VRT is Stagecoach South 7446 (LFJ874W), a 1981 VRTSL3/Eastern Coachworks new as Devon General 1227, but transferred to Hampshire Bus in 1988, where it became Stagecoach South 446 in 1992, later 7446:
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There are several appearances by Stagecoach South Alexander bodied Olympians, but not clearly enough seen to tell whether there are several or just the one driving past repeatedly:
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