Near and Far

(BBC schools programme, 1975-88)

BBC Schools geography strand.

Episode: What is a Street? (1976)
Shot in Northampton, with a brief interlude in Finchingfield, Essex.
These YouTube screencaps are not clear enough to give more than an impression, but beyond an establishing shot of London Transport AEC Routemasters…..
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……we see Northampton Transport's fleet at work, Leyland-Nationals, Willowbrook bodied Daimler Fleetline saloons, and the long-lived Roe bodied Daimler CVG6s:
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Also glimpsed is a United Counties Bristol Lodekka, and in Finchingfield an Eastern Counties Bristol MW:
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