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Yelloway
Museum brings memories of holidays back to Churston
After
years of touring around Britain the Yelloway Mobile Motor Coach
Museum has parked up at the Churston Farm Shop for visitors
to remember holidays past, when coach travel was just the ticket
to a wonderful holiday on the South Devon Coast. |
Dave
in his Yelloway Bus Museum |
Dave
on his Yelloway Bus Museum holding the latest coach model |
| Based at the Churston Farm Shop owner
Dave Haddock originally put together the Yelloway memorabilia
inside the retired Yelloway Coach and toured it around Britain,
sharing memories of coaching holidays, which date back to the
start of the Yelloway Coach Company's visits to Torbay in 1911.The
first happy holidaymakers to reach the Bay on the coach arrived
with the future singer Gracie Fields in their midst and David
has plenty of photographic material to show the changing face
of coach travel through the years. |
Charabang
travel 1920's |
Poster
showing 1930's Yelloway coach service
|
| David said,” Since I was a boy my parents
brought me down to Torquay on these coaches and thousands of people
from the North West came to Torbay on Yelloway coaches, founded
by brothers Robert and Ernest Holt. They would convert their haulage
Lorries into charabancs at the weekends taking passengers to places
of interest, including my grandparents.” |
Coach
trip in the 1940's |
Coach bound
for Torquay in the 1950's |
David's youthful journeys
helped grow his passion for Yelloway coaches whose heyday lasted
from the 1950s to the early 70s when they travelled all over,
but their name was linked mainly with their journey to the Bay.
David said that ‘the coach journey from Rochdale to Torquay
would take 14 hours in those days' and when he retired to live
in Churston Ferrers Village he created the smallest Transport
Museum in the country containing models, brochures photos printing
material in the Piggery in the back garden of his cottage, bringing
back fond memories of holidays to many who visited. |
Poster
advertising Yelloway Coach travel of 1950's |
Yelloway
coach travel 1960's |
When
he moved back up North for a time he was able to purchase
the 1976- built AEC Reliance Duple Dominant Coach, which allowed
him to take his Museum on tour. Dave is looking forward to
his new home back in Churston, with the Yelloway Transport
Museum located at the Churston Farm Shop on the Dartmouth
Rd, as he enjoys meeting people who love to reminisce about
childhood holidays. He also likes to see the response of members
of younger generations who often find ‘the old charabancs
with their lack of any safety belts or the comforts of modern
coach travel, very amusing!'
|
Yelloway
coaches of the 1960's |
Map
poster Yelloway to Torbay 1970's |
| Thanks to the agreement he has with
local farm owner Richard Haddock, the Transport Museum is now
open to the public, at the Farm Shop next to the Park and Ride,
throughout the week from 9pm till 7pm Sunday, Monday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, and from 2pm onwards on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
The Transport Museum is just wide enough to walk along the aisle
in order to appreciate the exhibits and David says “The entrance
is FREE but any donations will be given to the Children's Hospice
South West, Devon Air Ambulance and the RLNI.” |
Coach travel
Yelloway 1985-88
|
Rapide
luxury coach travel poster of 80's |
| David is pictured here with the latest
Yelloway Coach Miniature Model which can be purchased from David
with all profits to the Children's Hospice South West. |
Yelloway
poster adverting coach travel in 1980's |
Original
converted lorries for weekend coach trips
|
For
lots more on Yelloway and pictures visit:
www.yellowaymuseum.com |
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