Wow! Ex London Transport DM or DMS types! Daimler Fleelines with Metro Cammell or Park Royal bodywork- back in their spiritual home!
Wonderful picture and a lovely story ! Wow. 
Aha! Interesting; the VW Building is being converted to flats incidentally.
I didn’t know tramsheds were on that site before!
Next time I’m down there, ill try an grab a picture of the VW Building as it is now…
Not my pic, but one I found taken in the early 80s which is when I’d have been there. I’m pretty sure those were the buses.
Most certainly be Daimler Fleelines- although a vast number will have been bodied im Washwood Heath by MCW…
Still a great picture! I’ll dig out a picture of the only Daimler I’ve driven (off road)
Flats! Literally living in the middle of the road. 
At one time that building was the offices for Laker Airways.
This gives me a BIG hit of nostalgia - I recall buses very like this, right down to the concertina doors run by (I think…) Hants & Dorset when I was very young, in very similar green livery, and my fondest memories of my very-late maternal grandparents before my grandad succumbed to dementia - summer days heading out to Ringwood or Salisbury markets, him buying chooks or geese to raise, her getting cheese from a favourite stall, pickled onions from another, and me enjoying being away from my parents constant warfare. Those buses had a smell to them - they were always clean, and smelled of old leather, machine oil and diesel. Reckon it was 55 years ago…
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Me and the Mrs hanging out of one…
Me with the tour guide…
We spent 7 nights aboard from Calais to Monaco (and return) for the GP. Upstairs was sleeping for 16. Downstairs was converted into a galley.
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Sounds fucking awesome TBH!
Bunch of young(ish), like minded, drunken, rev-heads ?
What could possibly go Rong™ ?
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The 189 was my school bus
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First year at The Crucible in 1977.
45 years ago.
Credit: Mike Watterson’s son Mark - Posted up by Alan McManus.
Ha,just seen a pic of my class from 1972 that I haven’t seen before
Ronnie barkers daughter is in there but not sure which one she is,think she is bottom left
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is that you back row far left?
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I remember you saying how ‘contact lenses were a revolution’ for you. I hadn’t quite imagined how much.
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Nice job whoever did the colourising of the image. Impressed that you could get such a result from one of those glass plates.
(you look the spitting image of Alfie btw)
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Alfie couldn’t even pick me out.
The lad in front of me in the white shirt,his dad wrote lulus Eurovision hit the profound lyrics of boom bang a bang