DSCN4974 Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company (Go-Ahead Group owned) 720 (YP09 HWG) - 28 Sep 2010

Tuesday 28 Sept 2010 (1305) – Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company (Go-Ahead Group owned) 720 (YP09 HWG), a Scania Omnicity integral new Dec 2008, seen at Churchill Square, Brighton. Most of the company’s buses carry names of people having a connection with the Brighton area.

James Hannington was the first bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa who was martyred in 1885 while trying to open up a route into what is now Uganda. Born in Hurstpierpoint in 1847, he came from the same family that started the former department store in Brighton. He left school at 15 to work for his father’s counting house but six years later decided on a church career.