HBM: Eastern Counties XNG 206S in Mildenhall - 22 May 1993

Saturday 22 May 1993 (approx. 1307) – Eastern Counties Omnibus Company VR206 (XNG 206S) loads at King Street, Mildenhall bound for Bury St Edmunds on service 155.

Take a closer look at the first lower deck ‘window’ on the bus. This is part of the ‘T shaped’ advert for Eastern Electricity and is applied to the blank panel of the bus where the stairs to the upper deck are. The picture appears to give the bus an additional window and includes Aardman Animations ‘Creature Comforts’ animated characters from television and films. A number of Eastern Counties Omnibus Company buses carried adverts from this campaign which also ran on television.

Just behind the waiting passengers a yellow and black taxi may be seen which is waiting on the taxi rank. The rank moved to this position when the car park entrance that had been located near the town map on the left was relocated into Recreation Way.